Public Software Tools for Higher education

Branch Proprietary Software Free software* Download
ARCHITECTURE/CIVIL AutoCAD,
AutoCivil 3D
QCAD- 2D design http://www.qcad.org/qcad_downloads.html
CollabCAD- 3D design http://www.collabcad.com/download.html
Blender- 3d Rendering and animation http://www.blender.org/download/get-blender/
ELECTRONICS AND COMMUNICATIONS MATLAB,  E-spice, ORCAD, Xilinx or Altera
Electronic Work Bench
Scilab, Octave http://www.scilab.org/products/scilab/download
Ktechlab http://sourceforge.net/projects/ktechlab/
gEDA - Electronics design and application http://www.gpleda.org/index.html
 
MECHANICAL
 
AutoCAD, CATIA, Pro-E, Solid Edge, CAM Express QCAD, CollabCAD QCAD: http://www.qcad.org/qcad_downloads.html

CollabCAD: http://www.collabcad.com/download.html

COMPUTER SCIENCE VB / K basics,
SQL, Oracle 11g, MySQL, Photoshop CS-5, Dreamweaver, Frontpage, Adobe Flash
Gambas- Development environment based on a Basic interpreter with object extensions http://gambas.sourceforge.net/en/main.html
Kompozer- Web web file management system http://kompozer.net/download.php
Mysql- OPen Spource database http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/
Synfig Studio- Flash like animation software http://synfig.org/cms/en/download/
ELECTRICAL LabVIEW, MATLAB, Xylinx Scilab- Free Software for numerical computation http://www.scilab.org/products/scilab/download
GNU Electrical- sophisticated electrical CAD system http://www.gnu.org/software/electric/
PRINTING Corel Draw 15, Adobe Indesign CS-4, Quark Express-10 Inkscape- Vector graphics http://inkscape.org/download/