Adobe acquired Allegorithmic in 2019, along with this company's Substance family of tools. In 2021, Adobe released Adobe Substance 3D Modeler as a new member of the Substance application suite (others include Adobe Substance 3D Painter, Adobe Substance 3D Stager, Adobe Substance 3D Designer, and Adobe Substance 3D Sampler).

If you are a 3D animation enthusiast, you probably have tried many 3D production software such like Maya, 3ds Max, most of which are extremely expensive for individuals and small businesses. Fortunately, there is an alternative that can compete with them on functionality and performance, and is free, open-source, cross-platform, very lightweight and full-featured 3D creation program - Blender (from Holland), which provides a series of solutions for producing animated short films, including modeling, animations, materials, rendering, audio processing, video clipping, and more.

AutoCAD is undoubtedly the most popular and powerful CAD modeling software. But as a commercial software, it is really, really expensive. FreeCAD is a free, open-source, cross-platform and general-purpose 3D CAx (CAD, CAM, CAE), PLM modeling tool specially designed for home user/hobbyist, experienced CAD user, programmer or educator.