This is TJ with TJFree.com. In this video I'm going to be quickly going over five programs that are completely free to download and use. These are 3D modeling and design programs. We've got Blender, Sweet Home 3D, BRL CAD, Free CAD and SketchUp. Now of these five programs SketchUp is the only one that's sort of not completely free. It has a limited free version which is a very functional great tool and also paid version. It's a program produced by Google. But these other four are completely free for personal and commercial use. They're open source software and they're cross-platform, meaning they'll run on Windows, Macintosh and Linux. Whereas SketchUp only works on I believe Windows and Macintosh. All of them are great though. You can do professional work with all of them and if you're interested in downloading these and trying them out for yourselves, go ahead and you can check out download links at my website TJFree.com or just Google the name of the program and you should be able to find a download link that way as well. First let's look at Blender. Blender is a 3D animation and design program. You can draw and manipulate objects in 3D space. So yeah it's pretty cool. You can they've done entire movies with this like animated movies similar to the movies that like Pixar would make like Finding Nemo or Toy Story. They've done games with Blender. You can actually it's actually a game engine as well. You can do animations games or just create really really awesome 3D objects. And the rendering is pretty good. I mean the rendering is you can make some very realistic looking objects with Blender. This is a program I just found on I mean a model I found online. And that's the other great thing about Blender and some of these other programs I'm going to be showing you is that there are some really great communities online with repositories where you can actually find different 3D you know 3D art that you can use in your own animations or your own rendering a lot of times because they'll have very open licensing. But yeah it's a it's a very cool full featured program and I encourage you to take a look at it. If it's looks like something you're looking for that's Blender. The next one we'll look at is Sweet Home 3D. Sweet Home 3D is a program for designing like a house layout or a building layout and figuring out how to place furniture and and different parts of the building I guess within it. It's very simple. You don't have to know a lot about AutoCAD and things like that. Not even necessarily design principles. You just draw it up in a 2D space like this and then as you draw it will create a 3D model of that 2D layout that you draw. Then you can then just drag furniture into it. So you drag all these things, you get a double bed here. You can do they have different like French doors and windows and service hatch. And then once you drag in all these different objects and then you can take a look and see how your model looks. It's great for if you're going to redesign your house maybe you're planning an addition or maybe you do construction for a living and you have clients and you want to do a mock up and show them an example of what it's going to look like. This one is a more detailed version so you can see if we click on the table here and oops actually there used to be a couch here so I'll click on this couch and that couch so we can delete it and we can add it again. And so as we move it we can move it around the room which is pretty cool. If we go to we can break this window out separately and we can look around this room and see how it looks and if we want we can do like an aerial view of the whole house and see what individual rooms look like. So it's a great program, Sweet Home 3D the name of that one. These next two BRL CAD and free CAD are both programs that are very similar to Autodesk AutoCAD and so they'll have a lot of the same features as that Autocad has. This this first one is BRL CAD. It's a program that has been extensively used by the military for several decades and consequently it'll have lots of the models associated with BRL CAD are going to be military vehicles and weapon systems which is kind of cool. So you can you can draw objects, different parts and assemblies and things with with BRL CAD then you render them up and you can render them and view you am like we're doing this one and you can also something cool is that it's not just a picture like you'd have with Blender it's an actual these are actual parts like here's an axle and rim for this landing gear assembly for this aircraft and then so we can you can render this and see how it would look you can you know make do a proposal if you're gonna build this you can actually create blueprints from these parts and and build these just like you would with any Autocad or any CAD design program so that is BRL CAD. Free CAD we'll take a look at. Free CAD also it's 2D and 3D you can do a lot of the same stuff you can do with BRL CAD or with Autocad and it's you can do this is just like a simple layout for a building but you can do some pretty pretty amazing stuff if you know what you're doing and I don't I'll be honest but there's a learning curve involved with all of the software and if you want to invest in time learning these CAD programs that you can create some very very useful things with them. Okay moving on sketch-ups the last program I want to show you and the reason I include a sketch-up even though it's not an open source program it is still free for personal use like this version I'm using it doesn't have like a time trial or anything you can use it for personal use but it's really easy to just draw things and it's it's kind of fun to do use to you can do like houses you can do vehicles any kind of 3D object really although it's used a lot in architectural applications for example all of the models you see on Google Earth and Google Maps are used or were drawn in Google Sketchup this is the Illinois State Capitol building that someone drew and patterned it after both Google Maps layout the actual map as well as photos that they matched it too which I'm showing you now they match these pictures to it and so you can see that the vehicles in the picture and then if you actually scroll around you see just the model but you can match you can do this yourself too with your own house you can match a building to your own house which is or a match your own house to a model that you make let's pull up one or two more examples here you can do interiors with Google Sketchup like these that you can actually walk around in view so this could also be great if you have clients that you're designing a house or something for and they want to see what it's going to look like when it's finished anyway those are the programs I wanted to share with you today and hopefully you've these kind of peaked your interest if you want to download some of these and try them out I'd encourage you to do that and feel free to leave comments subscribe to my videos check out some of my other ones and go ahead and visit me over on TJ free.com for more videos and reviews of software and I hope you have an awesome day