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nTop

by nTop · #40 of 79 in 3D CAD Software

Free plan

Plans and prices

PlanPriceBilled
nTop Education$0—
Commercial nTop license——

From nTop's own pricing page, checked 8 Oct 2026. Every plan

What the maker publishes

Assembly design
Yes source
Company
nTop says it was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in New York City. source
Design exploration
The platform supports automatically running design logic across thousands of variants, from desktop to distributed cloud compute. source
Desktop and cloud connections
nTop is a desktop application that connects to cloud services for license authentication and software updates, and may send usage data according to user preference. source
Education access
Students, educators, and researchers can apply for a free non-commercial version, learning resources, and community access. source
File import and export
CAD: STEP, Parasolid, CATIA V5, Creo, Inventor, Siemens NX, SolidWorks, ACIS; mesh: STL, OBJ, PLY, 3MF, OFF; CAE: Abaqus, ANSYS, LS-DYNA, Nastran, Patran, CGNS, UNV; other: implicit, LTXC, CSV, VDB, PNG, CLI and manufacturing slice formats source
File formats
The platform page says nTop imports standard CAD and mesh formats and exports STEP, Parasolid, STL, and 3MF. source
Founded
2015 source
Hardware requirements
The system requirements guide specifies at least 64 GB RAM and an NVIDIA GPU with Volta architecture or newer and 8 GB VRAM. source
Headquarters
New York City, United States source
Implicit modeling
Its implicit modeling approach represents geometry mathematically so models can remain stable through large parameter changes. source
Integrations
The integrations page lists nTop Automate, a PLM connector, and MDO integrations including ModeFrontier, ModelCenter, and ProcesComposer. source
Licensing
The maker lists named-user, cloud floating, and FlexNet floating licensing models. source
Modeling method
parametric source
Purpose
nTop is an engineering design platform for generating parametric geometry and exploring many design variants. source
Simulation
nTop describes GPU compute and machine learning as ways to shorten simulation feedback cycles from hours to minutes. source
Support
nTop Support offers guides, troubleshooting, a knowledge base, and support requests, including a request path for ITAR support. source
Supported platforms
Windows 11; Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.9 for nTop Automate source