3D FloorPlan is a 3-dimensional architectural and space planning program for small business professionals and home users. The user may design a home addition or remodel in 2D and FloorPlan automatically converts the drawing into 3D. The user can then walk through the 3D model in real time.

Broderbund's 3D Home Architect is a home-design oriented CAD program. It includes a variety of home decor related objects, and can render the results in 3D.

3D Studio, not to be confused with the later "3d Studio Max" product, is a DOS-based tool from Autodesk for creating 3d models and animations. It made available to the PC many features that had previously been the exclusive domain of high end workstations, such as those from SGI, and did so in an integrated all-in-one package.

First released in 1983 by IMSI (International Microcomputer Software, Inc), 4 Point Graphics was one of the earliest drawing and animation programs for the IBM PC. It competed against a drawing program called PC Crayon.

Adobe Dimensions was a low cost 3-d object editing and rendering program. Unlike other 3d rendering programs, Dimensions is specifically geared towards producing illustrations for print. programs, such as Adobe Illustrator or Freehand, and edited to create 3d objects. Then, instead of outputting a pixilated raster image, it outputs in postscript bezier curves, which can then be further processed by other 2d illustration packages.

Adobe Illustrator is a vector graphics editor developed and marketed by Adobe Systems. It was often sold as a companion product to the bit-map/photo editor Adobe Photoshop. Illustrator was originally released in 1987 for the Apple Macintosh. Early versions were ported to NexT, Silicon Graphics, and Sun Solaris.

Adobe Photoshop Elements is the successor to Photoshop LE, a somewhat reduced, home-oriented version of Adobe Photoshop.

Adobe Streamline is an image conversion and manipulation tool that aids conversion of bit-mapped images in to PostScript line art for use in tools such as Adobe Illustrator. It was primarily targeted at graphics designers using Adobe Illustrator, although the output could be used with other applications as well. There were versions for Windows and Macintosh.

Aldus Gallery Effects is a standalone set of filters that create various artistic effects on photographic images. It competed with the filters in PhotoShop, however Aldus was eventually acquired by Adobe.

IntelliDraw is a shape based vector illustration tool that enables you to dynamically control shapes using numeric, rule based, or relationship based parameters.

Aldus PhotoStyler, developed by Ulead and acquired by Aldus, was an easy-to use photo image editor intended to compete with PhotoShop. The product was dropped when Adobe acquired Aldus.

Type Twister is a font tool that adds multiple effects to fonts, that a user may then copy as a bit map in to other applications. involved with Instant Artist, which features similar font effects.

Animation Paint Box is an integrated paint and animation program that apparently has its roots on the Amiga. It includes onion skin animation so one can see changes between frames. It also has a rub-through features to bring objects to the top. It supports animations it its own format as well as Windows AVI, and includes a standalone animation player.

Originally called Draw Applause, Applause is a slide making, charting, and presentation program for DOS from Ashton-Tate. It also served as a client front end to Ashton Tate's Graphics Service, through which one could purchase high-quality prints. Applause II beefs up the standalone desktop presentation and graphing abilities.

AppleWorks is an all-in-one Word Processor, Spreadsheet, Database, Graphics Editor, and Presentations tool. The original product was a text-based product for the Apple II. The Apple Macintosh and Windows versions were forked from ClarisWorks in 1998 by Apple. At the time, Apple was under a lot of pressure to have a direct alternative to Microsoft Office. There were serious concerns that Microsoft might pull Microsoft Office for the Macintosh from development.

AppSoft Image is a bit-mapped photograph editing program written specifically for NeXT computers. It was a capible but short lived product targeted at serious professional desktop publishing.

ArcView, from Environmental Systems Research Institute, Inc. (ERSI) is an easy-to-use geographical information system program for Win9x/NT that was intended to bring GIS visualization and querying to people who were not GIS specialists. It was intended to suppliment, but not replace ERSI's earlier ARC/INFO. It featured displaying geographical data, and vendor-based graphics. The functionality of ArcView and ARC/INFO were later merged in to ArcGIS.

ArkoseWorks, previously WordPerfect Works/PerfectWorks, was a short lived Windows office-productivity suite. It was essentially a rebranded continuation of Novell PerfectWorks 3.0. Novell had sold PerfectWorks to Arkose Software, which released version 3.0 under the ArkoseWorks name.

Artemis Presents! is a rudimentary graphics editor and charting tool. It was bundled with and integrated with other applications from Lucas Management Systems.

Artline, from CCP, is a vector based professional illustration program for use in desktop publishing. It is exclusively for the GEM desktop environment. Artline is intended for use alongside the GEM Desktop Publisher, and is much more powerful than Digital Research's GEM Draw.

Ashlar Vellum is a CAD package for mechanical engineers and designers, that includes an advanced user interface with the ability to intelligently predict where the user wants to connect the next object. There were both "2D" and "3D" versions.

First released in 1989, AutoDesk Animator was a DOS-based professional animation tool. It could create full motion animations using VGA 320*200 256 color resolutions. It supports a number of animation techniques, and includes a freely redistributable animation player. It saves animations to the .FLI or "QuickFlick" format. This format was extremely popular during the very early 90s, and was one of the few that could do 256 colors, including pallet manipulation.

AutoCAD, from Autodesk and first released in 1982, is a powerful Computer Aided Design tool. It was, and still is, often considered the standard for CAD tools. Primarily for the IBM PC platform, it was ported to x86 machines with higher video resolutions such as the Zenith Z-100 and NEC APC. Intermittently, versions for the Macintosh appeared. Later versions use a dongle copy protection.

Autodesk Deck is a stripped down CAD program that contains pre-defined objects specifically for designing deck layouts. It was part of a retail product series that included Autodesk Home, Kitchen & Bath, Deck, and Landscape.

Autodesk Home is a low end, entry level, 2-dimensional computer aided design program specifically oriented towards home floorplan creation. It was part of a retail product series that included Autodesk Home, Kitchen & Bath, Deck, and Landscape.