Het aanbod aan 3D software voor produktie is groot en de koek is nog steeds niet op. Het luxe gerenomeerde pakket 3D Studio Max van Discreet is overgenomen door AutoDesk (van autoCad). Daarentegen verschijnen er ook met regelmaat startende 3D programma's tegen instapprijzen.
- AutoCad Autodesk, inc., is the world's leading supplier of advanced 2d and 3d design, digital content creation, and project collaboration software tools, including autocad, autodesk inventor, autodesk mapguide, autodesk buzzsaw, autodesk 3ds max, and autodesk maya
- Blender 3D Blender is the open source, cross platform suite of tools for 3d creation.
- Carrara Daz3d, a division of daz productions, specializes in providing high-quality 3d content for poser the 3d character animation and figure design tool developed by curious labs, inc. 3d models, meshes, textures, and accessories for victoria, michael, stephanie, the millennium girls, the millennium boys, and animals, as well as props, software utilities, and other poser products are available for download at the daz3d online store.
- Dream 3D Corel is a leading global packaged software company with over 100 million users. the company provides full-featured, easy-to-use productivity, graphics & digital imaging software & enjoys a favorable market position among consumers & small businesses.
- Houdini Creators of prisms and houdini, procedural 3d animation and special effects tools for film, broadcast, entertainment and visualization production.
- Interactive FX
- Lightwave 3D
- Maya 3D Alias is the world's leading innovator of 3d graphics technology for the film, video, game development, interactive media, web 3d, industrial design and visualization markets.
- Microstation Bentley systems, incorporated: providing software for the lifecycle of the world’s infrastructure
- Poser E frontier makers of poser & shade
- Quest 3D
- Re-Lion
- Realsoft Graphics Realsoft 3d is a full-featured 3d software package. the product offers an impressive collection of advanced features with a price tag that is suitable for a large part of graphic oriented computer users. realsoft 3d is available for windows, linux, irix and mac os x.
- Rhino 3D
- Solid Works 100% focused on product design, solidworks corporation provides a complete selection of best-in-class software and services to help manufacturers get products to market faster. all solidworks software products supply single-window, fully associative integration with solidworks® 3d mechanical design software. as a result, all solidworks products work together using the same design data, so each change is updated automatically across all applications.
- Strata
- Think3 3D
- TrueSpace Powerful 3d modeling software for 3d animation, 3d graphic, animations, rendering, nurbs, web design, games design
- VR4Max Vr4max is a high performance real-time interactive virtual reality environment to view, check and distribute 3ds max and autodesk viz designs with only mouse clicks while still working within the max/viz environment.
- World Builder
- XSI SoftImage