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Please correct this if wrong. I'm a newby looking into this now, but from what I can tell so far, the catagorys are:
1)CAD(computer aided design) software that are made to be translated directly to robotics/machining(but are a little difficult to use for quick free hand drawing with custom curves),
2)software made for designers but are imprecise(won't correct overlaps) and can't handle thermo or stress analysis, and
3)renderers that make final beautiful life-like pictures/movies and have tons of textures for skining and premade objects for arrainging(like trees and people), and tons of lighting effects.
All of the above are quickly adding features from other catagorys. Examples I can think of(there are probably hundred) are:
1) AutoDesk, ProEngineer, Solidworks, Catia, many others
2) FormZ
3) ???
(that's purdy Yellowbird RS)
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Meanwhile other things are still happening.
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