168 Like FreeCAD Good alternative? YES NO 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 Windows Linux Windows XP Compatibility DWG support Parametric Modeling Portable Linux Add a feature I use Freecad to design my 3D printing models. Guest • Oct 2015 • 6 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 • 6 agrees and 5 disagrees 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 1 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 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 1 disagrees Disagree Agree FreeCAD is a software for 3d parametric model, AutoCAD is not that. Guest • Sep 2015 • 0 agrees and 5 disagrees Disagree Agree
88 Like LibreCAD Good alternative? YES NO 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 Windows Linux PortableApps.com Construction layers Add a feature Similar GUI like AutoCAD, and for 2D drawing, it is a perfect solution Guest • Jul 2017 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
47 Like OpenSCAD Good alternative? YES NO 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 Windows Linux No features added Add a feature
37 Like BRL-CAD Good alternative? YES NO 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 Windows Linux No features added Add a feature
15 Like SolveSpace Good alternative? YES NO 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 Windows Linux Parametric Modeling Add a feature
4 Like Open CASCADE Good alternative? YES NO 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
8 Like CoffeeSCAD Good alternative? YES NO 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
1 Like ImplicitCAD Good alternative? YES NO 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 Windows Linux No features added Add a feature
7 Like Archimedes Good alternative? YES NO 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 Windows Linux Extensible by Plugins/Extensions Add a feature Discontinued No ongoing development, but the application is still usable.
1 Like VARKON Good alternative? YES NO 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 Discontinued Last Update: 2012-11-18. See https://sourceforge.net/projects/varkon/
