160 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 DWG support Parametric Modeling Windows XP Compatibility Add a feature
136 Like Autodesk AutoCAD Good alternative? YES NO AutoCAD is a software application for both 2D and 3D computer-aided design (CAD) and drafting — available since 1982 as a desktop application and since 2010 as a mobile... Commercial Mac Windows Web Android iPhone iPad Batch plotting DWG support Add a feature
36 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
25 Like MeshLab Good alternative? YES NO MeshLab is made for processing 3D scans. Point clouds can be trianglulated into triangle meshes using various techniques. Models can be smoothed, cleaned and repaired. ... Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux Android iPhone Android Tablet iPad No features added Add a feature
12 Like NaroCAD Good alternative? YES NO 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 Discontinued Has not been updated since December 12 2014. See http://narocad.com/narocad-1-8-8-beta-released/
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
12 Like PTC Creo Good alternative? YES NO Creo Elements/Pro – formerly Pro/ENGINEER – is the standard in 3D product design, featuring state-of-the-art productivity tools that promote best practices in design... Commercial Windows No features added Add a feature
3 Like OpenJSCAD.org Good alternative? YES NO OpenSCAD + JavaScript = OpenJSCAD, edit locally or remote online, preview in browser direct via WebGL. Free Open Source Web Self-Hosted No features added Add a feature
4 Like Antimony Good alternative? YES NO CAD tool from a parallel universe in which CAD software evolved from Lisp machines rather than drafting tables. Free Open Source Mac Linux 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
3 Like form•Z Good alternative? YES NO Powerful 3D design application featuring a variety of modeling personalities and tools with an easy to use interface to express and communicate your imagination. Freemium Mac Windows Parametric Modeling Add a feature
5 Like Cobalt Good alternative? YES NO Cobalt is a parametric 3D modeling software for product design and development that's easy to use. It offers wireframe, solid and surface modeling with precision... Commercial Mac Windows Parametric Modeling Add a feature
1 Like CadQuery Good alternative? YES NO CadQuery is an intuitive, easy-to-use python based language for building parametric 3D CAD models. CadQuery is for 3D CAD what jQuery is for javascript. Imagine... Free Open Source Self-Hosted Scripting language Add a feature
1 Like HyperFun Good alternative? YES NO HyperFun is a simple specialized high-level programming language. It is intended for modeling geometric objects and their internal volumetric properties (color, material... Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux No features added Add a feature
