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Check the ads here for potential robotics software, too. For more info, to offer your thoughts on some particular software, or to add some software to the list, check out this robot software forum post.
gEDA - Freeware, full GPL'd suite of Electronic Design Automation tools. These tools are used for electrical circuit design, schematic capture, simulation, prototyping, and production.
Currently, the gEDA project offers a mature suite of free software applications for electronics design, including schematic capture, attribute management, bill of materials (BOM) generation, netlisting into over 20 netlist formats, analog and digital simulation, and printed circuit board (PCB) layout.
Eagle CAD - Freeware for non-profit uses, the most popular PCB editing software although definitely has a sharp learning curve.
Eagle3D - Freeware, an extension to Eagle CAD to view your circuits in 3D.
KiCAD - Freeware, for the creation of electronic schematic diagrams and printed circuit board artwork. Has 3D circuit viewing capabilities.
Altium - Used to be called Protel.
Easy-PC - It has a built in Spice simulator, too.
PADS - PCB design software.
NI Ultiboard - National Instruments PCB design software.
PCB Trace Width Calculator - Freeware Javascript useful to determine
if your circuit traces are thick enough to not fry.
Proteus - PCB design and simulation software, can also simulation MCU's.
OrCad - PCB design and it's simulation software, PSPICE.
Falstad - Freeware Java applet circuit simulator (no software to install).
VMLAB - Freeware tool for AVR develoment. VMlab can be integrated with WinAVR, also it supports digital and analog simulation and debugging. Really, it is the "lightweight Proteus".
NI Multisim - National Instruments electronics simulation software.
TI SPICE - Freeware Texas Instruments SPICE-based analog circuit simulation.
TINA - TI's electronics simulation software, with MCU capabilities.
Qucs - Freeware, an integrated circuit simulator which means you are able to setup a circuit
with a graphical user interface (GUI) and simulate the large-signal, small-signal and noise behaviour of the circuit. After that simulation has
finished you can view the simulation results on a presentation page or window.
AUV Workbench - Freeware, simulation software designed for expensive AUV platforms, but easy to use
with nice graphics. Developed by NPS Center for AUV Research, Naval Postgraduate School.
Player Stage - Freeware, robot simulation software, but not user friendly.
Microsoft Robotics Studio Visual Simulation Environment - Less than user friendly robot simulation
software bought from AEGIS.
PHUN - 2D Physics Sandbox - Freeware, a 2D physics simulator that is *very* simple to learn
and can even simulate water.
3D Graphic Robot Simulation - Graphic java-based 3D robot arm simulator
DMOZ Open Directory list - list of robot simulators
Sinbad - Java 3d robot simulator for scientific and educationnal purposes. It is mainly dedicated
to researchers/programmers who want a simple basis for studying Situated Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, and more generally AI algorithms,
in the context of Autonomous Robotics and Autonomous Agents.
Webots - very expensive professional robot simulation software
RoboRealm - Its simple GUI interface allows you to do
histograms, edge detection, filtering, blob detection, matching, feature tracking, thresholding,
transforms and morphs, coloring, and a few others.
OpenCV - a popular open source collection of computer vision algorithms. An
intro to OpenCV is also available.
Computer Vision Source Code - a collection of computer vision software links
MatLab - has tons of packages for anything from simulation to computer vision.
SciLab - open source alternative to MatLab.
Electronics Assistant - basic resistor and frequency calculator
MSC Adams - dynamics simulation
Microsoft Movie Maker - free and already installed with every
copy of Windows, this software is great for making videos of your robots. I used this to produce all my robot videos prior to 2009.
Sony Vegas Movie Studio 9 Platinum Pro Pack
other movie making software - a review of the top
movie making software. Make sure it allows at least three audio streams (movie audio, added music, voice over, etc.).
ViewMaster - Gerber viewing and editing software. Look in the
free downloads section for ViewMate, a freeware gerber viewer. Requires registration.
Microsoft Visual Studio - free edition, includes Visual Basic
AVRStudio - the official IDE for programming AVR's
WinAVR - tons of open source AVR software all in one install package
Procyon AVRlib - open source software for AVRs
PonyProg - freeware serial programmer software for AVRs
ImageCraft ICC - AVR C compiler
vAVRdisasm - freeware AVR Disassembler
WebbotLib - the easiest and best documented open source library for AVR devices (recommended)
a really large list of more C for AVR links
Procyon ARMlib - open source C library for ARM processors
WinARM - collection of ARM based software
Google Sketchup - Freeware (with limitations) CAD software. For more info, see Google Sketchup Info.
Also check out Airman00's robot CAD parts collection.
Autodesk Inventor - popular 3D CAD software, this is what I use to design my robots.
Solid Edge - 3D CAD software.
Solidworks - A popular 3D CAD software.
Rhino 3D - 3D CAD software.
Alibre Design Xpress - has limited freeware version.
Blender - Blender is the free open source 3D content creation suite, available for all major operating systems under the GNU General Public License.
BobCAD-CAM - Both 3D CAD and CAM software.
To learn more about FEA and CFD, please read my FEA and CFD tutorial.
ANSYS - All ANSYS FEA products.
Solidworks Simulation Professional - Both thermal and stress analsys tools.
COMSOL - Multiphysics software, with neat capabilities.
Open Source FEA Software List - a bunch of free FEA software, but with little to no documentation.
FreeFem++ - Freeware FEM software.
FEMAP - Industry software with thermal and flow solvers.
Fluent - Flow solver now owned by ANSYS.
ANSYS CFX - The ANSYS flow solver.
Solidworks Flow - Solidworks fluids solver.
OpenCFD - Freeware fluids solver.
CFdesign - Thermal fluids solver for use with AutoDesk.
There are a few CFD software suggestions on the forum: 188 and 2284.
KCam4 - limited shareware, plots g-code in 3D.
BobCAD-CAM - Both 3D CAD and CAM software.
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