Is there free AutoCAD like design software that someone can legally download and use personally?
35OpenCascade
http://www.opencascade.org/ Open CASCADE is software development platform freely available in open source. It includes components for 3D surface and solid modeling, visualization, data exchange and rapid application development. Open CASCADE Technology can be best applied in development of numerical simulation software including CAD/CAM/CAE, AEC and GIS, as well as PDM applications. It is composed of several modules:
- Foundation classes
- Modeling data
- Modeling algorithms
- Mesh
- Visualization
- Data Exchange
- Application framework
- GUI framework
- Development tools
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OpenCascade is an open source framework. Unfortunately, there is no useful and free end user interface available for general use at this time. For example, GraphiteOne never reached what I would consider "autocad style" and has since dropped the OpenCascade kernel for Parasolids anyhow.
Does this hub really satisfy the question as posed?
dafla says:
2 years ago
Thanks for the info. I was just today thinking I needed some sort of "Cad" software to organize my homesteading project.
You do, however, need to give your experience with the product, not just the specs from the website.