SOLIDWORKS Alternatives

Apps similar to SOLIDWORKS include FreeCAD, which is free and open source. Other options are SketchUp, LibreCAD, Autodesk AutoCAD and Onshape. There's no shortage of CAD Software like SOLIDWORKS, with more than 100 alternatives for Windows, Mac, Linux, the web and iPad.

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  1. IGiS CAD icon
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    IGiS CAD is a powerful 2D drafting and 3D modeling software for professionals to design. plan, execute and analyze their projects with precision. It can be used in Architecture, Engineering, Construction, Mechanical, Urban Planning, and many more.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    • Windows
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  2. Graphite is an easy to use precision 2D/3D CAD software for product design and development. Formerly known as Vellum, Graphite offers extremely powerful, precision wire-frame drafting with the elegant ease-of-use that makes it productive even when only used occasionally.

    71 Graphite 2D/3D CAD alternatives

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    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    • Mac
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  3. 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 drawings, renderings and animation.

    82 Cobalt 3D Modeling CAD alternatives

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    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    • Mac
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  4. ArCADia BIM icon
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    Software that allows you to create an almost complete design of a building and all installations in one environment. Lots of automation, precision tools, merging documents, collision analysis, in program rendering, 3D, IFC, and much more.

    100 ArCADia BIM alternatives

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    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    • Windows
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  5. SelfCAD  icon
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    SelfCAD is a simple but powerful 3D modeling software being used by beginners, professionals as well as both small and large businesses to create their 3D designs. With the program, users can be able to model, sculpt, render, and even slice designs.

    62 SelfCAD alternatives

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    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

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    • Mac
    • Linux
    • Online
    • Chrome OS
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  6. PUPPICAD icon
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    PUPPICAD is a free Computational Design and Engineering Development Environment. PUPPICAD features over 3000 different node types, for visual programming, mathematics and computational geometry.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    • Windows
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  7. 3D cad software with the perfect blend of conceptual and production design tools.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    • Mac
    • Windows
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  8. TouchCAD icon
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    Combined 3D modeling and unfolding program supporting creation of complex digital shapes, generates build-ready templates for marine design, soft material products, sheet metal, reverse engineering, sculptures, and unfolds high-resolution image textures.

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    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    • Discontinued

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    • Mac
    • Windows
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    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 modeling, sculptured surface modeling, and even animations.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
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  10. gCAD3D icon
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    gCAD3D is a 3D CAD CAM application that features an integrated 3D OpenGL viewer, a program interpreter for geometry and NC-commands in 3D, an integrated NC-processor, and a programming interface for user programs.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Windows
    • Linux
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  11. cadasio icon
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    Create online assembly and service instructions from your CAD data. The world is in 3D, so it makes sense your instructions are too.

    Cost / License

    • Free Personal
    • Proprietary

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    • Online
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