Software

7-Zip is a file archiver with a high compression ratio.

Version: 7-Zip 16.04 [64-bit]

Website: http://www.7-zip.org/

Adobe Acrobat is used to view, create, manipulate, print and manage files in Portable Document Format (PDF).

Version: Adobe Acrobat XI Version 11.0.20

Website: https://helpx.adobe.com/acrobat/11/user-guide.html

Adobe Digital Editions is an ebook reader software program. It is used for acquiring, managing, and reading eBooks, digital newspapers, and other digital publications.

Version: Adobe Digital Editions Version 4.5.6.177148

Website: https://www.adobe.com/solutions/ebook/digital-editions.html

Vector graphics editor. Adobe Illustrator is the companion product of Adobe Photoshop. Photoshop is primarily geared toward digital photo manipulation and photorealistic styles of computer illustration, while Illustrator provides results in the typesetting and logo graphic areas of design. Both are part of the Adobe Creative Cloud suite of software.

Video editing software. Premiere Pro supports high resolution video editing at up to 10,240 × 8,192 resolution, at up to 32-bits per channel color, in both RGB and YUV. Audio sample-level editing, VST audio plug-in support, and 5.1 surround sound mixing are available. Premiere Pro's plug-in architecture enables it to import and export formats beyond those supported by QuickTime or DirectShow, supporting a wide variety of video and audio file formats and codecs on both MacOS and Windows. Part of the Adobe Creative Cloud suite of software.

Blender is open-source 3D computer graphics software used for creating animated films, visual effects, art, 3D printed models, interactive 3D applications and video games.

Version: Blender 2.79

Website: https://www.blender.org/

Established in 1965, the CSD is the world’s repository for 3D small-molecule organic and metal-organic crystal structures. Contains over 850,000 entries from x-ray and neutron diffraction analyses.

Integrated suIte of scientifically intelligent productivity tools that enables researchers to capture, store, retrieve and share data and information on compounds, reactions, materials and their properties.

3D printer software.

Version: Cura 3.0.3 & Cura 15.04.6

Website: https://ultimaker.com/en/products/ultimaker-cura-software

VR instructional content in art-gallery type spaces

GIMP (GNU Image Manipulation Program) is a free and open-source raster graphics editor used for image retouching and editing, free-form drawing, resizing, cropping, photo-montages, converting between different image formats, and more specialized tasks.

Version: GIMP 2.8.22

Website: https://www.gimp.org/

Explore the world in three dimensions.

Video editing software.

Web browser.

Text editor. Includes syntax highlighting that provides native support for over 200 file formats. Support for additional formats can be added manually using XMLfiles. It supports UTF-8 and many other encodings. It has extensive code folding and text folding capabilities as well as text wrapping that takes indents into account. The application is highly customizable and can be extended with macros written in BeanShell, Jython, JavaScript and some other scripting languages.

LISA is a user-friendly finite element analysis package for Windows with an integrated modeler, multi-threaded solver and graphical post-processor.

Version: LISA Version 8.0.0 Released May/2013

Website: www.lisa-fet.com

Maple is a symbolic and numeric computing environment, and multi-paradigm programming language. Maple also covers other aspects of technical computing, including visualization, data analysis, matrix computation, and connectivity.

Version: Maple 2016.2

Website: https://www.maplesoft.com/products/Maple/

3D printing software.

Version: MatterControl 1.7.5

Website: https://www.matterhackers.com/store/l/mattercontrol/sk/MKZGTDW6

Meshmixer is software for working with triangle meshes.

Website: http://www.meshmixer.com/

Microsoft applications: Word (writing and editing), Excel (spreadsheets), Powerpoint (presentations), Access (database), Publisher (page layout and design).

Integrated Development Environment (IDE).

Version: Microsoft Visual Studio Professional 2015 Version 14.0.25431.01 Update 3

Website: https://www.visualstudio.com/

Web browser.

Spreadsheet application.

Word processor.

A database of inorganic diffraction data from crystals and powders produced by the International Centre for Diffraction Data® (ICDD®), a non-profit scientific organization dedicated to collecting, editing, publishing, and distributing powder diffraction data for the identification of materials. This comprehensive collection of inorganic materials is in a standardized format that can be rapidly searched for unknown phase identification. It is designed to support automated quantitative analyses by providing key reference data required for these analyses. It also contains an array of tools that supplement conventional analyses, such as a full suite of data simulation programs enabling the analysis of neutron, electron, and synchrotron data, in addition to conventional X-ray data.

Python is a widely used high-level, general-purpose, interpreted, dynamic programming language. Its design philososphy emphasizes code readability, and its syntax allows programmers to express concepts in fewer lines of code than possible in languages such as C++ or Java.

Version: Python 2.7.14

Website: https://www.python.org/

R;is a programming language and software environment for statistical computing and graphics supported by the R Foundation for Statistical Computing.

Version: R 3.4.0

Website: https://www.r-project.org/

With Scientific WorkPlace Version 5, you can create, edit, and typeset mathematical and scientific text more easily than ever before. The software is based on an easy-to-use word processor that completely integrates writing mathematics and text in the same environment. With the built-in computer algebra system, you can perform computations right on the screen.

In Scientific WorkPlace, you can typeset complex technical documents with LaTeX, the industry standard for mathematics typesetting. Because of its superior precision and quality, publishers and writers of scientific material use LaTeX extensively. When you typeset, LaTeX automatically generates footnotes, indexes, bibliographies, tables of contents, and cross-references.

You don't have to learn LaTeX to produce typeset documents. Many of the more than 150 document shells have been designed to meet the typesetting requirements of specific professional journals and institutions. Scientific WorkPlace automatically saves your documents as LaTeX files. You can concentrate on writing a correct paper; Scientific WorkPlace makes it a beautiful one.

Version: Scientific WorkPlace 5.00 Build 2552

Website: https://www.mackichan.com/index.html?products/swp.html~mainFrame

Interactively sculpt 3D objects and export for 3D printing

SolidWorks is a solid modeling computer-aided design (CAD) and computer-aided engineering (CAE) computer program that runs on Microsoft Windows.

Version: SolidWorks 2016-2017 / 2016 SP5.0

Website: http://www.solidworks.com/

TeXnicCenter is a free editor (IDE) for developing LaTeX documents under Windows.

Version: TeXnicCenter 2.02 Stable

Website: http://www.texniccenter.org/

Implement custom 3D environments with the Unity game engine.  We have the licensed educational edition.

WinSCP (Windows Secure Copy) is a free and open-source SFTP, FTP, WebDAV and SCP client for Microsoft Windows. Its main function is secure file transfer between a local and a remote computer. Beyond this, WinSCP offers basic file manager and file synchronization functionality. For secure transfers, it uses Secure Shell (SSH) and supports the SCP protocol in addition to SFTP.

Version: WinSCP Version 5.11.1 (Build 7725)

Website: https://winscp.net/eng/download.php

Xcode is an integrated development environment (IDE) containing a suite of software development tools developed by Apple for developing software for macOS, iOS, WatchOS and tvOS.