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Getting some 3D CAD on your Mac
Core77 — ... - Self-described as a "general purpose solid and surface modeler," Form Z has a definite entry-level look and feel to it, and most of the sample projects in the gallery bear this out. That said, many of those projects are visualizations rather than production data, and for this application it it seems well-suited, with lots of users praising its flexibility and ease of use. solidThinking - The only existing Mac 3D CAD we found specifically directed at Industrial Designers, solidThinking claims to be used by Toyota, Pininfarina, Bulgari and Nikon, among others. Features a ...

Macworld 2009: solidThinking offers speed and simplicity -- for a price
The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) — Filed under: Macworld, Software solidThinking demonstrated its flagship 3D rendering application (of the same name) that simplifies the process for conceptualizing, revising and rendering for industrial designers. The application makes it very simple to start with a two-dimensional sketch and rapidly create a three-dimensional model of it. For instance, with two cross-sections, users can apply a contiguous skin to create a solid, and not just a series of disconnected surfaces. Users can dynamically edit the points that define the solid, as well, and solidThinking updates the ...