FABACADEMY SOFTWARE

This is a document compiling most of the common software used during fabacademy by most of the students.

As always, this is not mandatory but a recommendation to help you choose the program of your liking and find what best suits you.

Text editor

• Sublime Text (“Free” and NOT Opensource)
• Atom
• Brackets
• VIM(Free and Opensource)
• VSCodium

Design 2D

Raster

• Gimp (Free + Opensource)
• Krita (Free)
• Photoshop

Vector

• Inkscape (Free + Opensource)
• Illustrator

Design 3D

Parametric

• Freecad (Free + Opensource)
• Fusion 360 (Free 3-year education license, not free as in freedom, not Opensource)
• Grasshopper-rhino

Nurbs

• Rhinoceros 6 (Commercial 3D Cad software)

Meshes

• Blender (Free + Opensource 3D software)
• Meshmixer (Free)
• ZBRUSH

Coding

• OpenScad(Free and Opensource)

3Dscan

• Metashape
• kinect-Skannet
• Meshroom

Milling

• Rhinocam
• Meshcam

Slicer

• Prusa Slic3r(Free and Opensource)
• Ultimaker Cura(Free and Opensource GUI? - TBC)
• Slicer3d(Free and Opensource)
• Chitubox

Physical Computing

Electronics and PCB

• Kicad(Free and Opensource)
• Arduino IDE(Free and Opensource)
• Visual Studio
• Platformio(Free and Opensource)

Interface and Application Programming

• Processing(Free and Opensource)
• MIT APP INVENTOR