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2D/3D, mostly AutoCAD compatible:

Dassault DraftSight:

https://www.draftsight.com/

Graebert Ares Commander (there is Linux version too):

https://www.graebert.com/cad-software/ares-commander/

Bricsys BricsCAD (there is or was Linux version too):

https://www.bricsys.com/

Monstrous 3D CAD system, on league of its own - Dassault Catia:

https://www.3ds.com/products/catia

Architectural - Graphisoft Archicad:

https://graphisoft.com/solutions/archicad/

Architectural, engineering - Nemetschek Allplan:

https://www.allplan.com/index.php?id=13001

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[โ€“] supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 22 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Freecad seems like it is under pretty consistent development. It is open source.

https://www.freecad.org/

[โ€“] JustEnoughDucks 6 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I have designed multiple things with it.

Definitely not perfect, probably would have a difficult time in a commercial setting, but in the past 5 years has gotten a whole lot better!

It is kind of GIMP right now, I hope it gets to be like Blender as far as user experience.

[โ€“] cyberwolfie@lemmy.ml 4 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I'll be getting my 3D-printer soon, and I plan on learning FreeCAD for that purpose!

Very rewarding use case.

[โ€“] Wizard_Pope@lemmy.world 5 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Wait is that the same Dassault that makes french weapons and planes?

Not directly the same company, but they are under the Dassault Group. The aerospace group developed it, and spun it out.

[โ€“] oyzmo@lemmy.world 1 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)
[โ€“] lime@feddit.nu 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

out of dassaults solutions, solidworks is more popular than catia. mostly because catia is insanely expensive.

[โ€“] Raugulas@lemm.ee 3 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Solidworks is american, only owned by Dassault.

[โ€“] lime@feddit.nu 2 points 5 days ago

if it was american-owned for two years and has been french-owned for 30, is it really still american?

[โ€“] Raugulas@lemm.ee 1 points 5 days ago

Also simple 2D CAD Qcad - www.qcad.org and its spinoff LibreCAD - www.librecad.org .

[โ€“] Blaze 1 points 5 days ago
[โ€“] hAx0R@lemmy.ml -1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Applying the concept of 'boycott' to gratis and libre software with no profit makes zero sense.

[โ€“] cyberwolfie@lemmy.ml 5 points 5 days ago

What FOSS CAD-tools are being boycotted?