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  1. FreeCAD icon
     472 likes

    A versatile open-source 3D CAD modeler with modular architecture, suitable for engineering applications across multiple platforms, supporting Python scripting.

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • Snapcraft
    • Flathub
    • PortableApps.com
    • Flatpak
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    +5
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    113 alternatives
    4.3
    Very Good27 reviews
  2. KiCad icon
     122 likes

    KiCad is an open source software suite for electronic design automation (EDA) - designing schematics of electronic circuits and printed circuit boards (PCB). KiCad is developed by Jean-Pierre Charras. And features an integrated environment between schematic capture, bill of...

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Flathub
    • PortableApps.com
    • Docker
    PcbNew - Editor
    PcbNew - 3D Viewer
    Eeschema - Component Options
    +5
    Eeschema - Footprint Picker
    59 alternatives
  3. LibreCAD icon
     170 likes

    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.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • PortableApps.com
    • Flathub
    On Mac
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    On windows 7
    +1
    On windows 7
    109 alternatives
  4. OpenSCAD icon
     83 likes

    OpenSCAD is a software for creating solid 3D CAD objects. It is free software and available for Linux/UNIX, MS Windows and MacOS.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Flathub
    • Flatpak
    • Snapcraft
    • BSD
    • Docker
    • Homebrew
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    +3
    Rendering a model
    50 alternatives
  5. Dune 3D icon
     16 likes

    Dune 3D operates as a parametric 3D Computer-Aided Design (CAD) software. It provides users with the capability to sketch and constrain both in 2D and 3D dimensions. Furthermore, it allows for the addition of chamfers and fillets to designs.

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Flathub
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    58 alternatives
  6. Autodesk Fusion icon
     44 likes

    Integrated CAD, CAM, and CAE platform with cloud-based modeling, simulation, and manufacturing tools plus collaborative features. Free licenses for students, hobbyists, and startups.

    Cost / License

    • Free Personal
    • Proprietary

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    Freeform modeling & sculpting
    Solid modeling
    Parametric modeling
    +19
    Mesh modeling
    44 alternatives
  7. Onshape icon
     31 likes

    Onshape is a professional CAD system – Parts, Assemblies, Drawings – with version control and collaboration built in. Each Onshape plan (Free, Education, Professional, and Enterprise) gives you all of the CAD and data management functionality with no time limit.

    Cost / License

    • Free Personal
    • Proprietary

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Android
    • iPhone
    • Android Tablet
    • iPad
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    Working in an assembly to visualize a room layout making use of assembly configurations.
    +3
    Creating an advanced 3D sheet metal part, including the simultaneous sheet metal flat pattern and bend table.
    42 alternatives
  8. BRL-CAD icon
     57 likes

    BRL-CAD is a powerful cross-platform open source solid modeling system that includes interactive geometry editing, high-performance ray-tracing for rendering and geometric analysis, image and signal-processing tools, a system performance analysis benchmark suite, libraries for...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
    PA-63 Extractor
    Ronja quad-view mged screenshot
    Stryker ICV w/ Slat Armor rendered with ADRT/RISE
    74 alternatives
  9. Tinkercad is a super easy-to-use, browser based 3D design tool. With Tinkercad you can create 3D printable items: toys to play with, decoration to light up your home or jewelry to express yourself. You dream it, you can make it!

    Cost / License

    • Free Personal
    • Proprietary

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Online
    Autodesk Tinkercad screenshot 1
    Autodesk Tinkercad screenshot 1
    71 alternatives
  10. CAD Sketcher icon
     8 likes

    CAD Sketcher is a free and open-source project looking to enhance precision workflows in Blender by bringing CAD like tools, features and usability to Blender.

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    Platforms

    • Blender
    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
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    54 alternatives
  11. Shapr3D icon
     30 likes

    From design to manufacturing. Teams collaborate with more impact. Instinctive design meets multidevice capability and full interoperability for the ultimate 3D design workflow.

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    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • iPad
    Sketch to model. Mastered in hours.
    Visualize, preview, edit. Instantly.
    Multidevice. Everywhere.
    +3
    Check in AR. Decide in context.
    44 alternatives
  12. SolveSpace icon
     32 likes

    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 most 3d printers. Constraint solver point tracing for motion analysis.

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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    +8
    SolveSpace screenshot 3
    71 alternatives
  13. QCAD icon
     29 likes

    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.

    Cost / License

    • Free Personal
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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    QCAD screenshot 1
    74 alternatives
  14. LeoCAD icon
     14 likes

    LeoCAD is a CAD program for creating virtual LEGO models. It has an easy to use interface and currently includes over 6000 different pieces created by the LDraw community.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Flathub
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    10 alternatives
  15. QElectroTech icon
     14 likes

    QElectroTech is a free software to create electric diagrams. QElectroTech is under GNU/GPL license. It is currently available for Windows, Mac OS and Linux.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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    14 alternatives
  16. pCon.planner icon
     31 likes

    The professional furnishing 2D-/3D-tool for everybody: The pCon.planner is a cost-free application allowing you to comfortably and professionally create complex furnishing concepts and to visualize them in a photo-realistic quality. File Formats: dwg, dxf, 3ds, skp, ... Language.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
    new Interface UI with Ribbon
    Architect plan
    Concept Office
    +7
    Plan 3D view
    85 alternatives
  17. Antimony icon
     9 likes

    Antimony is a computer-aided design (CAD) tool from a parallel universe in which CAD software evolved from Lisp machines rather than drafting tables.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application types

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
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    19 alternatives
  18. CaDoodle icon
     6 likes

    CaDoodle is a local drag-and-drop CAD application for Linux (Arm,x86), WIndows (X86), and Mac (Arm,x86) and ChromeOS. Users models are stored locally, and the application runs entirely locally. CaDoodle has a drag and drop interface that is cross-trainable with TinkerCAD.

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Chrome OS
    A model with a lot of example objects and the timeline open.
    Spiral and sweep using an Inkscape file as a profile.
    Timeline lets you go back and modify previous steps.
    9 alternatives