Top 15 CadQuery Alternative and Similar Softwares | Dec 2024

CadQuery is an intuitive, easy-to-use python based language for building parametric 3D CAD models. CadQuery is for 3D CAD what jQuery is for javascript. Imagine selecting Faces of a 3d object the same way you select DOM objects with JQuery!

CadQuery has several goals:

Build models with scripts that are as close as possible to how you'd describe the object to a human.
Create parametric models that can be very easily customized by end users
Output high quality CAD formats like STEP and AMF in addition to traditional STL
Provide a non-proprietary, plain text model format that can be edited and executed with only a web browser

1. Shapr3D

Shapr3D Shapr3D is a revolutionary 3D modeling software created exclusively for your iPad Pro and your Apple Pencil.Shapr3D is the only truly mobile CAD app - a quick but precise way to create 3D models for engineering, design, 3D prints, and more.COMPATIBILITYShapr3D is compatible with ALL major CAD software. You can......

2. Power Lines Pro

Power Lines Pro Power Lines Pro is a new software tool for designing overhead powerline systems, featuring an intuitive interface, elegant 3D visualisation, powerful import / export and extensive graphical validation reporting.......

3. ImplicitCAD

ImplicitCAD ImplicitCAD is a programmatic CAD program, implemented in Haskell. Unlike traditional CAD programs, programmatic CAD programs use text descriptions of objects, as in programming. Concepts like variables, control structures and abstraction are used, just as in programming. This provides a number of advantages: Objects can abstracted and reused Repetitive tasks......

4. FreeCAD-PCB

FreeCAD-PCB Mod FreeCAD-PCB allow you to import PCB boards to FreeCAD.Scope of mod:- support for many different layers,- possible to choose colours, transparency and names for each layer,- mod allows you to import IGES models with colours,- possible to show holes/vias independent.Supported software:- Eagle (*.brd)- Razen (*.rzp)- FreePCB (*.fpc)- gEDA (*.pcb)-......

5. HyperFun

HyperFun HyperFun is a simple specialized high-level programming language. It is intended for modeling geometric objects and their internal volumetric properties (color, material density and others). A model can include objects of mixed dimensions (1D, 2D, 3D, 4D and even kD)) defined by real functions of point coordinates. This language is......

6. OpenSCAD

OpenSCAD OpenSCAD is a software for creating solid 3D CAD objects. It is free software and available for Linux/UNIX, MS Windows and Apples OS X. Unlike most free software for creating 3D models (such as the famous application Blender) it does not focus on the artistic aspects of 3D modelling but......

7. MicroStation

MicroStation Want to focus your time and energy on developing designs to build a better world? MicroStation easily models, drafts, maps, renders and documents your projects.......

8. Scheme Cad

Scheme Cad Scheme Cad is a programmable 3D CAD tool that currently supports wireframe models and features animation. Users can program Scheme Cad by writing extensions in Scheme (a dialect of LISP).......

9. Bricksmith

Bricksmith Bricksmith allows you to create virtual instructions for your Lego creations on your Mac. The magic is based on the LDraw library, a collection of 3D models of Lego building blocks created by enthusiasts from around the world. With Bricksmith, you'll never have to worry about running out of parts!Bricksmith......

10. Argon™

Argon™ Argon™ is a CAD and 3D precision modeling software for Mac and Windows. It offers wireframe, solid and surface history-free modeling with precision drawings, photo-realistic renderings and animation.Argon offers entry-level 3D modeling without the commitment of high-end professional packages. It contains the same solid and surface modeling, rendering engine and......

11. CAD.FEM

CAD.FEM CAD.FEM will assist you in designing and analyzing 3D models of structural elements or any other 3D models easily and accurately, and quickly.The CAD.FEM allows you to create your model using the available built-in 3D modeler tools, capable of doing many things such as creating mesh from triangles, creating solids......

12. Cobalt

Cobalt Formerly known as Vellum Solids, 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.Cobalt’s flexible 3D modeling matches professional power with speed and ease of use in our unique Organic......

13. Onshape

Onshape Onshape is a professional CAD system – Parts, Assemblies, Drawings – with version control and collaboration built in. Each Onshape plan (Free, Professional & Enterprise) gives you all of the CAD and data management functionality with no time limit.- Onshape is the first full-cloud 3D CAD system. It runs in......

14. XYZmaker

XYZmaker XYZmaker is a 3D modeling software designed for beginners in 3D printing; it provides a model library and several tools to generate different shapes and objects easily. Use the XYZprinting Gallery, where there are thousands of 3D models available for free, to make designing easier than ever before. You can......

15. Xenon™

Xenon™ Formerly Vellum Solids, Xenon™ is an associative 3D modeling software for product design and development that's easy to use. It offers history-based wireframe, solid and surface modeling with precision drawings, renderings and animation.Xenon 3D modeling software offers supreme design flexibility, speed, and ease of use in our unique Organic Workflow™......