SAMoCAD Alternatives

SAMoCAD is described as 'Designed to create simple drawings, primarily to architectural drawings. Development of the program is far from complete, but it is already possible to draw. There is partial DXF format support, at the moment almost all drafted in the program can be saved in DXF and can' and is an app. There are more than 10 alternatives to SAMoCAD for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Mac, Linux, Web-based and BSD apps. The best SAMoCAD alternative is LibreCAD, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like SAMoCAD are DraftSight, QCAD, JTS IntelliCAD Software and KediCAD.

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  1. LibreCAD icon

    LibreCAD

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    LibreCAD is an open source 2D CAD application for Windows, Apple and Linux. It is based on Qt, which is a leading cross-platform application and UI development framework.

    108 LibreCAD alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • PortableApps.com
    • Flathub
    On Mac
     

    • LibreCAD is the most popular Windows, Mac & Linux alternative to SAMoCAD.

    • LibreCAD is the most popular Open Source & free alternative to SAMoCAD.

    • LibreCAD is Free and Open SourceSAMoCAD is also Free and Open Source
    • LibreCAD is Customizable and LightweightSAMoCAD is not according to our users
  2. DraftSight icon

    DraftSight

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    DraftSight is a professional-grade, open 2D CAD product for users who want a better way to read, write and share DWG files. DraftSight is easy to use and is available for professional CAD users, students and educators to download and activate for free.*

    88 DraftSight alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Subscription
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
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    • DraftSight is the most popular commercial alternative to SAMoCAD.

    • DraftSight is Paid and ProprietarySAMoCAD is Free and Open Source
  4. QCAD icon

    QCAD

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    QCAD is an application for computer aided drafting in 2D. With QCAD you can create technical drawings such as plans for buildings, interiors, mechanical parts or schemas and diagrams.

    74 QCAD alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free Personal
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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  5. JTS IntelliCAD Software icon

    JTS IntelliCAD Software

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    JTS IntelliCAD is an economical 2D Drafting and 3D Wireframe Modeling CAD software meant for Engineers, Architects and other technical consultants. JTS IntelliCAD works in native DWG & DXF CAD software to create and edit drawings.

    Cost / License

    • Pay once
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
    JTS IntelliCAD 11 Standard
     
  6. KediCAD icon

    KediCAD

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    KediCAD - CAD(Computer Aided Design) -  CAM(Computer aided Manufacturing) - FEA(Finite Element Analysis)  software for Linux. It has 2 version.    1-) KediCAD2B (2 dimesional version)    2-) KediCAD3B (3 dimensional version) .

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Linux
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  7. Piglet Drawing Editor icon

    Piglet Drawing Editor

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    2-D engineering drawing editor that supports hierarchical object description. It is inspired by Hewlett-Packard's proprietary HP PIGLET (Personal Interactive Graphic Layout EdiTor), which later became the commercial Graffy editor by DURST CAD.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
    Piglet Drawing Editor screenshot 1
     
  9. HighDesign icon

    HighDesign

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    2D CAD and architectural design application to create, document, and publish 2D designs, built for architects, engineers and designers.

    Cost / License

    • Pay once
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    HighDesign on macOS, architecture elevation.
     
  10. DesignCAD icon

    DesignCAD

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    Easy-to-use 2D/3D CAD tool that’s perfect for novice designers, but powerful enough to create high-quality designs, models and animations.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  11. BabaCAD icon

    BabaCAD

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    First Bosnian Computer Aided Design software. 2D vector geometries polyline, circle, arc, hatch, block, georeferenced raster images. Commercial BabaCAD for Mac (23.99) available on MAC APP STORE.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
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  12. TigerCad

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    Ideal for garden design, mechanical engineering drawings, electrical / electronic, building and room plans, and general diagramming. Output in PDF format for the web. Copy and paste graphics. Create standard symbols to re-use. Scale, mirror and rotate.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
    TigerCad screenshot 1
     
  13. JustCAD icon

    JustCAD

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    JustCad is designed, to make cad drawing as simple as possible.

    22 JustCAD alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
    JustCAD screenshot 1
     
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    NttCAD

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    NttCAD: free, simple 2D/3D CAD software, multi-platform (works on Windows, Mac, linux...). Programmable in Java language. Small program size and fast download. Saves in autocad dxf, svg and NttCAD formats.

    24 NttCAD alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
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    • NttCAD is the most popular Web-based alternative to SAMoCAD.

    • NttCAD is Free and ProprietarySAMoCAD is Free and Open Source
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