Brand-new, full fledged, computer-aided design (CAD) applications for the Mac don’t come down the pike every day, despite the Mac’s obvious superiority as a design tool. (Well, obvious to everyone but the legions of bent-backed drafting...

Specular International’s Infini-D produces photo-realistic ray tracings and excellent Phong renderings that can incorporate reflection and fog effects. And the product includes many procedural textures. Infini-D’s animator is the easiest...

Animo is the first software package to seamlessly integrate 2D and 3D animation. It enables artists to combine the time-honored methods of traditional animation with modern computer technologies for greater speed, richer images, smoother movement...

Welcome to Blob Sculptor for the Mac OS, a... 3-D CAD application for quickly creating 3-D "blob" or metaball objects. You can design blobs in Blob Sculptor's 3-D CAD-like environment... and even get a quick wireframe preview of how...

Design Your Own Home (DYOH) is to computer-aided design what MacPaint 1.0 is to drawing. It’s simple, straightforward, and a little clumsy. With DYOH you can lay out a house or office in a matter of minutes, then walk through the 3D rooms. No...

Adobe Dimensions turns your 2-D art into 3-D without the price or learning curve of a 3-D graphics package. As with its previous version you can use it to add 3-D effects artwork created in standard drawing packages. And with its latest release,...

3DMF Viewer is an app to view and edit QuickDraw 3D 3DMF files.

Natural Scene Designer is a landscape design and renderer application for 90's Macs.  Ray tracing is super slow, but it does not require any 3D acceleration card at all.  It runs all in software mode. Download links were removed as...

Second version of this very popular and easy 3D mac app. Some critical bugs and animation improvements over the initial version.

QuarkWrapture™ software fills an important void in the packaging industry. It bridges the gap between the structural design and the graphic design. QuarkWrapture is a visualization tool that fuses the package’s CAD structure, which...

Touch3D is program for 3D modeling and unfolding / unwrapping 3D models into flat 2D patterns. It can for example be used for concept design, industrial design, quick prototyping, mock-ups, scale models, marine design, physical renderings,...

ToyViewer is an image viewer originally written for NeXTSTEP. It was later ported to OPENSTEP and Mac OS X Server before being moved to Mac OS X.

Introduced in 1985, MacDraft was one of the first object-oriented drawing programs for the Mac. It enjoyed early success with architects and designers, and at one time, it claimed a majority of the Mac CAD market. But the rapid evolution of 2-D CAD,...

Phoenix 3D is an early 3D modeling program. It provides a palette of tools for creating objects and another for adjusting their position in 3D space. Rendering provides wireframe, hidden line, and shaded options, as well as combinations of these....