Software to creat 3D Models for Games, virtual reality and flight simulation, scientific, medical and general data visualisation, rapid prototypes of 3D designs, high resolution 3D renderings

Features
- Simple, intuitive ’click and drag’ user interface
- Truetype font 2D and 3D text generator
- Integrated graphical texture coordinate editor
- Subdivision surface modeling
- Boolean operations

Specification
- Fast real-time OpenGL graphics views (2D and 3D)
- Multipoint polygon and line editing down to vertex level
- No polygon limits
- Extrusion and surface revolution
- Software development kit and plugin interface.
- Fast and memory efficient, compact program binary.
- Built-in fast OpenGL 3D renderer with adjustable field-of-view - instantly see results of your actions in 3D. Spin the model or switch into ’walk mode’ for Quake-style control.
- Edit at different granularity - groups, objects, surfaces, vertices
- Full polygon editing. e.g create a sphere and easily move the points (vertices) to deform the shape.
- Create and edit multi-point polygons and lines - not just triangles.
- Manipulate individual surfaces
- Texture mapping support with real-time rendering.
- Graphical Texture Coordinate Editor
- Assemble surfaces into new objects
- 4 views - 3 orthographic and one 3D. All at once or individually.
- Named objects can be searched for within a scene
- Navigate/Zoom around the 2d views with cursor keys and other single key presses
- Hierarchical view window
- Hide/unhide objects for easier/faster editing of complicated scenes
- Headlight and up to 7 other positionable lights
- 24-bit colour palette with adjustable diffuse; ambient; emissive; specular; shininess and transparency
- Adjustable 2D and 3D grid guide lines with grid-snap function
- Create new surfaces/objects around any selection (Convex hull)
- Configurable to use external renderers such as Povray and BMRT - just select Tools->Render to start.
- Multi platform program - AC3D file format compatible across platforms Attach URLs to objects for use in VRML files
- Attach string data to objects to be used as scripting in Dive or special directives for POV or renderman
- Supports many output/input formats
- Extrude and revolve 2D lines to make 3D shapes.
- scale a selection to a specific size
- flip a selection (mirror) about X, Y or Z axis
- Remove duplicate vertices and surfaces (’optimize’)
- Simple documented file formats allow easy conversion from other forms of data - ideal for visualizing your own data in 3D.
- Plugin interface (registered versions only) with source code for existing plugins and a software development kit.