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Comparison of computer-aided design software

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Computer Aided Design (CAD) refers to a type of software application for creating technical drawings. These can be either in two or three dimensions and are typically used in architecture, engineering and construction (abbreviated to AEC).

Advanced 3D CAD software allows creation of complex 3D forms

The related software groups in the AEC industries of Computer Aided Engineering (CAE) and Computer Aided Machining (CAM) are not covered in this comparison.

Comparison of CAD Editors

Application Latest stable release date (ISO 8601 format) and version number Owner Environment Software licence Open source? User Interface Language Stable? Imports Exports
Archimedes 2008-06-19 v0.56.0[1] Archimedes Project, University of São Paulo Java[2] (platform independent) GNU GPL[3] Yes Brazilian Portuguese, EN, FR, Portuguese, ES[4] No Imports Exports
AutoCAD 2008 2008-03-25 v2009[5] AutoDesk Windows, WINE[6] Proprietary[7] No EN (incomplete list) [citation needed] Yes DXF, DWG, IFC, (incomplete list) [citation needed] 3DS (requires addon), DXF, DWG, DWF, IFC, (incomplete list) [citation needed]
BRL-CAD 2008-06-22 v7.12.2 [8] Owner Unix-like, Windows LGPL, BSD licence [citation needed] Yes EN (possibly others) [citation needed] Yes Imports Exports
ProgeCAD (based on IntelliCAD) dd-mm-2008 [citation needed] progeSOFT Windows Proprietary [citation needed] No EN, RU [citation needed] Yes Imports Exports
ProENGINEER dd-02-2008 v4.0[9] Parametric Technology Corporation Linux support discontinued[10] Proprietary [citation needed] No EN (possibly others) [citation needed] Yes ? [citation needed] ? [citation needed]
QCad Community Edition dd-mm-yyyy v2.0.5.0[citation needed] RibbonSoft Unix, Linux, Mac OS X [citation needed] GNU GPL [citation needed] Yes DA, DE, Dutch, Estonian, Greek, Czech, EN, FR, Hungarian, IT, NO, Polish, Punjabi, Russian, Slovak, ES, Turkish [citation needed] Yes DXF, (incomplete list) [citation needed] DXF, (incomplete list) [citation needed]
QCad Professional 2008-05-02 v2.2.1.0[11] RibbonSoft Unix, Linux, Mac OS X, Windows [citation needed] Proprietary [citation needed] No EN [citation needed] Yes DXF (incomplete list) [citation needed] DXF (incomplete list) [citation needed]
SagCAD 2007-11-09 v0.9.12[12] SagCAD Linux[13] GNU GPL [citation needed] Yes EN, Japanese (incomplete list) [citation needed] No DXF [citation needed] DXF [citation needed]
VariCAD dd-mm-2008 2.02[citation needed] VariCAD Linux, Windows [citation needed] Proprietary [citation needed] No EN [citation needed] Yes STEP (3D), DWG (2D), DXF (2D) and IGES (2D) [14] STEP (3D), STL (3D), IGES (3D/2D), DWG (2D), DXF (2D) [15]

Comparison of CAD Viewers

Application Latest stable release Owner Environment Software licence Open source? User Interface Language Stable? Imports Markup of files?
DXF Viewer 1.22.07 1.22.07 [citation needed] DXF Viewer Java (platform independent) Apache Software License [citation needed] ? English_language, DE? [citation needed] Yes DXF ?
progeCAD Viewer DWG (based on IntelliCAD) (incomplete entry) Latest release? progeSOFT Windows Proprietary No User Interface Language? Yes DWG ?
VariCAD Viewer 2008 v2.03 VariCAD Linux, Windows [citation needed] Proprietary, Redistributable [citation needed] No EN [citation needed] Yes DWG (2D), DXF (2D), IGES (2D), STEP (3D)[16] ?

See also

 
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References

  1. ^ Archimedes 'Files' page on SourceForge
  2. ^ Archimedes 'Files' page on SourceForge
  3. ^ Archimedes 'Summary' page on SourceForge
  4. ^ Archimedes 'Summary' page on SourceForge
  5. ^ Autodesk Delivers AutoCAD 2009 Software for Innovative Design
  6. ^ AutoCAD on WINE's Application Database
  7. ^ AutoDesk - Licensing, Registration & Activation
  8. ^ BRL-CAD 7.12.4 Released
  9. ^ January 2008 Worldwide Media and Analysts Launch of Pro/ENGINEER® Wildfire® 4.0
  10. ^ Support - Parametric Technology Corporation - Pro/ENGINEER Linux Support Discontinued
  11. ^ QCAD change log for QCAD version 2.2.1.0 (2008/05/02)
  12. ^ SagCAD Summary page on SourceForge.JP
  13. ^ SagCAD Summary page on SourceForge.JP
  14. ^ VariCAD - CAD system description
  15. ^ VariCAD - CAD system description
  16. ^ VariCAD - CAD system description
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