3D software like GeoGebra

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Does it exist a free interactive geometry software, like GeoGebra, which works for 3D geometry? I would be able to draw spheres, great circles, and so on.

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I think you can, to a limited extent, use Google Sketchup, but that's not really the same.

Cabri3D is probably the most like what you want, but it's commercial. Autograph, also commercial, may do some of that kind of stuff, but I'm not sure.

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Geomview is fairly flexible, and allows you to work in Euclidean, spherical or hyperbolic geometry. Depending on which operating system you use it might be easier or harder to get it installed. It made it into the Ubuntu repositories recently, so if you're running Ubuntu it takes little effort to install.

That said, it's not the easiest software to use -- quite a ways away from the interface of GeoGebra. More often than not, if I need a high-quality rendered image of something 3-dimensional, I code a PovRay script and render it.

Blender is open-source and interactive. It appears to be quite flexible -- it's used to produce models for 3d video games, for example. I haven't really got comfortable using it, though.

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There will be a public preview of GeoGebra 3D soon. Keep an eye on the GeoGebra forums :)

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Try kd3-surf if you haven't yet found it at http://k3dsurf.sourceforge.net/

Free software and small file size, easy to manipulate.

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GeoGebra 5.0 (with 3D) has been released:

https://www.geogebra.org/

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If you're on a mac, theres a plotting software build in.
Go to Applications / Utilities / Grapher.
It's easy and powerful, can plot 2D and 3D graphs.

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If you're a programmer, you might have some luck with Octave and the ezmesh function

A MATLAB tutorial is available here. Usually Octave functions behave exactly like MATLAB ones, but I haven't tried it yet.

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Archimedes Geo3Dhttp://archimedesgeo3d.weebly.com/

THE CLASSIC CABRI 3D: https://cabri.com/en/enterprise/cabri-3d/index.html CALQUES 3D> http://www.calques3d.org/( YHE ONLY ONE THAT OFFERS 3D LOCI