Blender for AEC

Blender is an excellent tool for the AEC industry. Its an open source and very a mature software with about 3 decades of making. It can be an extremely powerful tool in an Engineer's/Architect's/Designer's toolkit. Apart from being an excellent 3d modelling software with in-built rendering capabilities and also tons of features and parametric capabilities to make your 3d workflow efficient, Blender also comes with a built-in python environment and a powerful api to enable you to write custom scripts and plugins.

Blender is also very powerful from openBim (with blenderbim/ifcopenshell) and Data science perspective even helping in creating training datasets for computer vision applications for the AEC industry.

So if you want to improve on your workflow and break free from costly proprietary software (and really own your work), give Blender a try.