3ds Max or Max for Engineers/Architects is popular software that provides comprehensive 3D modeling, animation, rendering, and compositing solutions for diverse range industries like Engineering or Architectural designing, motion graphics creation, game designing, film editing etc.
3ds Max is developed and produced by Autodesk Media and Entertainment. It is also known as 3D Studio and 3D Studio Max. It is a specialized 3D computer graphics program exclusively used for making 3D models, animations, games, and images.
It is capable of modeling and has a flexible plugin architecture, so, it is compatible with Microsoft Windows platform. Usually, it is used for video game developers and TV commercial studios, but, architects use it for 3D design visualization.