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There's SideFX Houdini. It's a VFX software mainly but it's also like an amazingly powerful CG/simulations OS and tools-collection. It can be tried out for free
by danwills 4y ago
There's SideFX Houdini. It's a VFX software mainly but it's also like an amazingly powerful CG/simulations OS and tools-collection. It can be tried out for free (the full software with only some fairly reasonable limits in my opinion) With a bit of hacker elbow-grease it can be made to read and write things in wildly different formats fairly easily. It can be hard to learn initially! but I would certainly recommend it!
- eggy 4y agoI was using Houdini when it was called Prisms on an SGI Irix machine. It is for 3D graphics and effects, not CAD or FEM/FEA. Autodesk Fusion is for creating 3D geometry and testing your design with an FEA analysis. Houdini uses a physics engine for graphics, not engineering results or stress analysis. Autodesk have now made the FEA simulation portion fee and cloud-based, when it was free before if you ran it locally on your computer. I have Houdini installed for fun, but I also use Blender (since 2000). Two different uses entirely between Houdini and Autodesk Fusion 360.