9 Best 3D Design Courses on Coursera
We compared 9 3d Design courses currently listed on Coursera, priced from $49.00 to $79.00. 1 comes from a named university or institution, including University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. They are ordered by our CourseAsk score, which is built from how thoroughly each course describes what it teaches, whether it comes from a named institution, and how it compares on price — not from star ratings, which our course data does not include.
- Courses compared
- 9
- Price range
- $49.00 – $79.00
- Providers
- Coursera
- Last updated
- 31 Aug 2026
How these 9 courses were chosen
Every course below is a real, currently listed course from Coursera, matched to "3d design" by our catalog and ordered by our CourseAsk score. Courses whose own title names the topic rank above those only tagged with it.
The grade on each entry scores how much the provider publishes about the course before you pay — the length and detail of the description, whether it lists learning outcomes and objectives — and whether a named university or institution stands behind it. A is fully documented and institution-backed; E is little more than a title and a price. Courses with almost nothing published are left ungraded rather than marked down, because an unknown course and a poor one are not the same thing.
There are no star ratings on this page — the course feeds we license do not include them, and we would rather leave a column out than fill it with a number we cannot stand behind. What we do have is price: these range from $49.00 to $79.00, as listed by the provider when we last updated the page.
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3D Printing Capstone
Offered by University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
The capstone will integrate the learning acquired from the four courses in the 3D Printing Specialization through a hands-on project. This project will enable you to turn an idea into an object using the knowledge and sk...
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3D Printing Hardware
Offered by University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
This course will provide an in-depth exploration of desktop 3D printing hardware. It will examine the history of desktop 3D printing and demonstrate how 3D printers are made and how they work. This course will also provi...
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Blender Lighting & Compositing for Beginners
Offered by Packt
Updated in May 2025. This course now features Coursera Coach! A smarter way to learn with interactive, real-time conversations that help you test your knowledge, challenge assumptions, and deepen your understanding as yo...
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3D Trees with Blender Geometry Nodes
Offered by Packt
This course features Coursera Coach! A smarter way to learn with interactive, real-time conversations that help you test your knowledge, challenge assumptions, and deepen your understanding as you progress through the co...
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Unreal Engine: Design & Build 3D Game Worlds for Beginners
Offered by EDUCBA
Take your first step into Unreal Engine by learning how to design and develop immersive 3D game environments through a guided, project-based experience. This beginner-friendly course introduces the essential tools, workf...
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Blender 3D for Beginners: Create a 3D Vaporwave Animation
Offered by Skillshare
Hi! My name is 'Harry Helps' and in this class, I’ll walk you through the simple and beginner friendly process of creating a Vaporwave style animation in Blender. Vaporwave is both a musical and a visual genre of artwork...
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Unity Game Development: Build and Design Pipe Runner
Offered by EDUCBA
Build a complete Pipe Runner game in Unity while developing practical game design and programming skills through a hands-on, project-based learning experience. In this course, you will learn how to construct procedural 3...
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SOLIDWORKS 3D CAD for Education
Offered by Dassault Systèmes
Learn the fundamentals of 3D design with SOLIDWORKS through hands-on CAD challenges across five courses. You’ll create and modify sketches, apply material addition and removal features, generate patterns, and assemble pa...
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SOLIDWORKS xDesign for Education
Offered by Dassault Systèmes
Learn the fundamentals of browser-based 3D design with SOLIDWORKS xDesign through hands-on CAD challenges across five courses. You’ll create and modify sketches, apply material addition and removal features, generate pat...
$49.00listed price
Best 3D Design Courses on Coursera compared
| # | Course | Provider | Offered by | Price | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 3D Printing Capstone | Coursera | University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign | $79.00 | View → |
| 2 | 3D Printing Hardware | Coursera | University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign | $79.00 | View → |
| 3 | Blender Lighting & Compositing for Beginners | Coursera | Packt | $49.00 | View → |
| 4 | 3D Trees with Blender Geometry Nodes | Coursera | Packt | $49.00 | View → |
| 5 | Unreal Engine: Design & Build 3D Game Worlds for Beginners | Coursera | EDUCBA | $49.00 | View → |
| 6 | Blender 3D for Beginners: Create a 3D Vaporwave Animation | Coursera | Skillshare | $49.00 | View → |
| 7 | Unity Game Development: Build and Design Pipe Runner | Coursera | EDUCBA | $49.00 | View → |
| 8 | SOLIDWORKS 3D CAD for Education | Coursera | Dassault Systèmes | $49.00 | View → |
| 9 | SOLIDWORKS xDesign for Education | Coursera | Dassault Systèmes | $49.00 | View → |
Prices shown are the provider's listed price when we last updated this page. Confirm on their site before enrolling.
What the prices here tell you
The 9 priced courses on this page run from $49.00 to $79.00, with the middle of the range around $49.00 — a spread of $30.00. The options are closely priced, so cost is unlikely to be your deciding factor. A higher price on this page usually reflects who is behind the course rather than how much material it contains, so it is worth opening two or three at different price points and comparing their syllabus before deciding.
Who is behind these courses
These courses come from Coursera. Everything on this page is sold on the one platform, so the buying experience is the same whichever you pick. 1 of these are produced by a named university or institution, including University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign — which usually means a fixed syllabus and a recognised certificate, rather than an individual instructor’s own course.
Before you enrol
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