FreeCAD FreeCAD is a general purpose parametric 3D CAD modeler. The development is completely Open Source (LGPL License). FreeCAD is aimed directly at mechanical engineering and... Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux Windows XP Compatibility DWG support Parametric Modeling Portable Linux Add a feature 184 Like I use Freecad to design my 3D printing models. Guest • Oct 2015 • 8 agrees and 4 disagrees Disagree Agree Freecad is (as mentioned in the description) for 3D parametric CAD, and has no drafting functionality worth speaking of. Not a bad program, but certainly not an AutoCAD replacement. It has much more similarity to SolidWorks than AutoCAD Guest • Jan 2017 • 8 agrees and 5 disagrees Disagree Agree Not directly supporting DWG: needs a commercial/trial license of a file converter Guest • Apr 2017 • 1 agrees and 1 disagrees Disagree Agree Very good app, has many workbenches for different branches of engineering. It has a very helpful community forum. I really recommend trying it before looking for any other alternative. Guest • Jun 2017 Disagree Agree Not bad for a free Software, but Workflow seems very antiquated and unneccessarily complicated. It lacks logic on available tools in different workbenches. There are much ways to get to your goal but every way takes really a lot of clicks and more of trial and error. Guest • Aug 2017 • 2 agrees and 2 disagrees Disagree Agree AutoCAD is a 2D drawing program, mostly used for architecture and structures. FreeCAD is 3D and aimed at mechanical engineers. They do different things. Guest • Feb 2018 Disagree Agree Because is an user friendly software and is free to use.Autodesk Autocad is very expensive eduardoortiz1 • Mar 2018 • 0 agrees and 1 disagrees Disagree Agree FreeCAD is not a bad program, but it seems to lack functionality that AutoCAD provides. Currently FreeCAD seems to be in an early stage of development, and should probably not be considered for use in a professional production context, as a replacement for AutoCAD. Guest • Mar 2017 • 0 agrees and 2 disagrees Disagree Agree FreeCAD is a software for 3d parametric model, AutoCAD is not that. Guest • Sep 2015 • 0 agrees and 6 disagrees Disagree Agree
LibreCAD LibreCAD (originally QCad then CADuntu) is an open source 2D CAD application for Windows, Apple and Linux. It is based on Qt, which is a leading cross-platform... Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux PortableApps.com Construction layers Portable Add a feature 93 Like No blockeditor or creating dynamic blocks. Guest • Feb 2018 Disagree Agree If you know Autocad, you will learn librecad lightning fast. Guest • Jan 2018 • 0 agrees and 1 disagrees Disagree Agree LibreCAD is only a 2d Drafting software while AutoCAD also has 3d modelling capabilities Guest • May 2016 • 3 agrees and 5 disagrees Disagree Agree Similar GUI like AutoCAD, and for 2D drawing, it is a perfect solution Guest • Jul 2017 • 0 agrees and 2 disagrees Disagree Agree
OpenSCAD OpenSCAD is a software for creating solid 3D CAD objects. It is free software and available for Linux/UNIX, MS Windows and MacOS. Unlike most free software for... Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux No features added Add a feature 47 Like
BRL-CAD BRL-CAD is a powerful cross-platform open source solid modeling system that includes interactive geometry editing, high-performance ray-tracing for rendering and... Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux No features added Add a feature 39 Like
SolveSpace SOLVESPACE is a parametric 3D CAD program with extrude, revolve, union and difference functions. Save/Export as DXF, PDF, SVG, STL, STEP. Mesh generation expected by... Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux Parametric Modeling Portable Add a feature 17 Like
NaroCAD The goal of this project is to develop a fully fledged and extensible 3D CAD software based on the concept of parametric modeling of solids, comparable to well known... Free Open Source Windows Parametric Modeling Add a feature 12 Like Discontinued The project is no longer developed. Last version, 1.8.8, released in December 2014, can be still downloaded from the official website.
Open CASCADE Open CASCADE Technology is a software development platform freely available in open source. It includes components for 3D surface and solid modeling, visualization, data... Free Open Source Windows Linux No features added Add a feature 5 Like
CoffeeSCAD Browser based 3D solid CAD editor, Openscad style, with a Coffeescript based syntax, using only Coffeescript + Javascript Free Open Source Linux Web No features added Add a feature 8 Like
ImplicitCAD ImplicitCAD is a programmatic CAD program, implemented in Haskell. Unlike traditional CAD programs, programmatic CAD programs use text descriptions of objects, as in... Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux No features added Add a feature 1 Like
Archimedes Archimedes is a free and open source CAD (Computer Aided Design) software. It is a robust system built over Eclipse’s Rich Client Java Platform fully based on plug ins.... Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux Extensible by Plugins/Extensions Add a feature 7 Like Discontinued No ongoing development, but the application is still usable.
VARKON Varkon is a very powerful parametric 2D/3D CAD, modeling and application development tool for engineering, design, architecture, etc. It does 2D drafting, 2D and 3D... Free Open Source Windows Linux Parametric Modeling Add a feature 1 Like Discontinued Last Update: 2012-11-18. See https://sourceforge.net/projects/varkon/
