Open Source CAD Software

CAELinux is an installable live (USB) Linux distribution dedicated to open source engineering with a focus on Computer Aided Engineering and Scientific Computing. Based on Ubuntu, it features a ready to use workstation environment for open source product development, makers and scientist with many CAD/CAM/CAE applications for mechanical design, stress analysis, heat transfer, flow simulation and CNC manufacturing / 3D printing as well as electronic design tools and a complete development environment for scientific computing & mathematical modeling. A special focus of CAELinux is to provide simplified interfaces to facilitate the use of specialized open source software while providing high performance parallel multiphysics solvers ready to use for more advanced users. Try CAELinux or carry it with you on a USB stick in a live environment or install it to turn your PC into a full fledged Ubuntu based CAE workstation. It's all up to you what you can do with it!

PotterDraw is a free 3D software application for designing and visualizing pottery. It’s useful for creating cylindrical shapes such as pots, flasks, vases, bowls, plates, cups, glasses, goblets, or anything similar. The outer wall of the pot is drawn using a spline, which consists of one or more curved or linear segments. The inner wall is generated automatically. PotterDraw can export files suitable for 3D printing. It can also map synthesized or user-specified textures onto the pot. Mesh and texture properties can be modulated by oscillators for more complex effects, and the modulations can be animated to create videos.

Wuweido is a professional 3D CAD on your phone or tablet. More than just a viewer, dozens of modeling tools are provided to create and modify 3D models in the most natural way. Wuweido allows you to import and export models in standard CAD format. Unlike Onshape™ on Cloud, Wuweido is running locally on your device and it's more like Rhino™ 3D on mobile. Wuweido is powered by OPEN CASCADE. OPEN CASCADE is an incredible powerful geometry kernel innovating quickly. Wuweido is inspired by CAD Assistant. Modeling features: 1. Draft creation tools: Line, Poly Line, Arc, Spline, Circle, Ellipse, Rectangle, Regular Polygon. 2. Primitive Solid creation tools: Box, Cone, Truncated Cone, Cylinder, Sphere, Torus, Wedge, Truncated Wedge, Pyramid, Truncated Pyramid. 3. Sweep modeling tools: Extrude, Revolve, Loft, Pipe, Path 4. Boolean operation tools: Intersect, Subtract, Union, Xor, Fuse 5. Transform tools: Move, Rotate, Mirror, Scale