2D design

raster

scan
GIMP BIMP pixels
Photoshop
Pixlr
MyPaint Krita
ImageMagick GraphicsMagick Converseen encoding
Geeqie gThumb

vector

Sketchpad
Potrace mods
Inkscape shapes Booleans clones
lodraw
Illustrator
Graphite Sketchpad Photopea Aggie.io Boxy SVG
CorelDRAW
Scribus
QCAD
FreeCAD constraints
Layout

3D design

types

design history
project complexity, collaboration
boundary (BRep), function (FRep), volume (VRep) representations
3D input devices
GUIs, scripting, hardware description languages
imperative, declarative, generative, optimization, Multidisciplinary Design Optimization, AI

programs

sketching
SketchUp Tinkercad
Shapesmith Flood
Blender geometry nodes Sverchok CAD Sketcher

sculpting rendering animation

ZBrush SculptGL Nomad
Rhino Grasshopper Kangaroo
Solvespace
FreeCAD Open CASCADE Ondsel

workbenches snaps coordinates containers extrude revolve loft sweep constructive solid geometry (CSG) symmetry pad pocket fillet chamfer offset links hierarchy constraints construction projection, section alignment assemblies measurement folding parametric programming algorithmic drawing rendering animation

AutoCAD Inventor Fusion 360 online education
SolidWorks xDesign Maker FabConnect
Onshape
Maya Alias 3ds Max Cinema 4D Houdini
Catia Creo NX ACIS Parasolid
MagicaVoxel Monolith OpenVDB
OpenSCAD OpenJSCAD CadQuery BlocksCAD
Kokompe Kokopelli Antimony libfive

adaptively sampled distance fields (ASDF)

nTopology
GrabCAD viewer

interchange formats

~~DXF~~
STL
OBJ
FBX
~~IGES~~
STEP
glTF
Alembic
USD

libraries

McMaster-Carr
FreeCAD

game engines

Unreal
Unity
Godot

VR/AR

SculptrVR
Gravity Sketch
Kodon
Tilt Brush

simulation

Blender Physics video
PyBullet PhysX
FreeCAD CalculiX
Fusion 360 FEA
Simulation Simulia Abaqus
Elmer
COMSOL
ANSYS
Nastran
Open Dynamics Engine
Modelica

audio, video

Audacity
Qsynth FluidSynth MuseScore
GIF
Kdenlive Olive Shotcut OpenShot Lightworks Blender
DaVinci Resolve Premiere After Effects Final Cut Pro
ffmpeg avconv mencoder HandBrake
mplayer smplayer VLC
HTML5 formats encoding
SimpleScreenRecorder Vokoscreen ShareX asciinema
OBS Studio Ant Media Server

Midjourney
Dall-E
Stable Diffusion

Dream Fields
Dreamfusion
Magic3D
Text-to-CAD
CAD

assignment

model (raster, vector, 2D, 3D, render, animate, simulate, ...) a possible final project,
compress your images and videos,
and post a description with your design files on your class page