My personal favourties are:Please be aware that this post should NOT be used for advertising any tools.
It's pure purpose is to share the tools that could make your studentlife easier!
- PDF: pdf xchange editor- Let you write and draw an all the pdfs you recive during your studies.
- PICTURES: Adope Photoshop and Inkscape for vectorgraphs.
- TEXTEDITOR: lyx. (Somewhere between pure latex and word...)
- CALCULUS: Matlab.
- CAD-Design: Pro Engineer.
- QUOTATION: mendeley. Much easier to handle references.
- DICOM: syngov fast view. Let you extract the #.dicom to AVI, which Matlab can then make a 3D-image of them via isosurfaces and also #.stl-data.
If you have any additional favourites that make your life easier- as always- it would be great if you will share that!