Best Construction Design Software

Compare the Top Construction Design Software as of November 2025

What is Construction Design Software?

Construction design software enables builders and construction firms to design construction projects and plans for new construction including homes, buildings, remodels, and more. Construction design software, also known as construction drawing software, can include 3D and architectural CAD tools as well as drawing tools for construction plans. Compare and read user reviews of the best Construction Design software currently available using the table below. This list is updated regularly.

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    SkyCiv Structural 3D

    SkyCiv Structural 3D

    SkyCiv Engineering

    SkyCiv Structural 3D is a cloud-based Structural Analysis software that allows users to model, analyze and design complex 3D structures. It is completely online; requiring no installation to use. SkyCiv Structural 3D offers the very best in online structural analysis. It includes the following: - Powerful Analysis: Linear, P-Delta, Cables, Buckling, Plates, Frequency, RS - Integrated Design checks for steel, wood, connections, foundations, wind (AISC, NSD, AISI, EN, AS, CSA, BS plus more...)
    Starting Price: $79/month/user
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    ARCHLine.XP
    We deliver design software solutions for architects, interior designers and furniture makers. ARCHLine.XP LT - Solid 3D CAD/BIM product at affordable price ARCHLine.XP Professional - Large-scale 3D BIM software for architecture ARCHLine.XP Live - Easy-to-use archviz animation software
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    Autodesk Construction Cloud

    Autodesk Construction Cloud

    Autodesk Construction Cloud

    Autodesk Construction Cloud connects workflows, teams and data at every stage of construction to reduce risk, maximize efficiency, and increase profits. Keep projects on track by allowing teams to collaborate, connect and integrate with the most up-to-date schedule. Easily access short, on-demand courses from any device to help you use any Autodesk Construction Cloud product! Bring every project team together from design to turnover on a single construction software solution. Connect workflows and collaborate securely from a single source of truth. Seamlessly collaborate with powerful, simple software that connects critical workflows. Linked workflows move information between teams quickly, and critical context doesn’t get lost along the way. Plan, escalate and resolve work, all in one place. Powerful, purpose-built tools for all construction stakeholders. Model the right workflows for your projects and easily manage how information is shared with partners, securely.
    Starting Price: $25.30 per month
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    Civil 3D

    Civil 3D

    Autodesk

    Civil 3D® civil engineering design software supports BIM (Building Information Modeling) with integrated features to improve drafting, design, and construction documentation. Conduct grading design studies based on project constraints. Grading Optimization is available in Civil 3D only as part of the Architecture, Engineering & Construction Collection. Transform how you navigate, visualize, and interact with Civil 3D design models. Project Explorer is an extension available in Civil 3D only through the Architecture, Engineering, and Construction Collection. Experience more efficient workflows for surface modeling, corridor modeling, site design, storm and sanitary, and plan production and documentation with Civil 3D® civil engineering design software. Securely access Civil 3D files, data shortcuts, and xrefs from multiple locations and companies, all in a common data environment.
    Starting Price: $2,430 per year
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    ProtaStructure

    ProtaStructure

    Prota Software

    ProtaStructure is an innovative structural BIM solution for structural engineers to model, analyze and design buildings quickly and accurately. From one central model easily compare different schemes and automate your steel and concrete design, reducing design time and increasing project profitability. Use advanced integrated features including grouped member design, 3D FE Analysis, staged construction and seismic design, foundations and punching shear checks to quickly produce results. Handle changes with ease and seamlessly coordinate projects with architects, owners and other stakeholders with intelligent BIM integration. Save time and increase project profits with ProtaStructure.
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    Revizto

    Revizto

    Revizto

    Revizto unifies BIM intelligence and makes it immediately accessible and actionable for the entire project team. With Revizto’s advanced Issue Tracker predefined workflows project team members can identify and manage model-based issues in the 3D space and 2D sheets, including addressing clash groups. Revizto provides unified access to a project’s data both for 2D and 3D workflows, so anyone can use it depending on project requirements.
    Starting Price: $600.00/year/user
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    Revit

    Revit

    Autodesk

    Multidisciplinary BIM software for higher-quality, coordinated designs. Use Revit® BIM (Building Information Modeling) software to drive efficiency and accuracy across the project lifecycle, from conceptual design, visualization, and analysis to fabrication and construction. Begin modeling in 3D with accuracy and precision. Automatically update floor plans, elevations, and sections as your model develops. Let Revit handle routine and repetitive tasks with automation so you can focus on higher-value work. Revit is BIM software that brings all architecture, engineering, and construction disciplines into a unified modeling environment, driving more efficient and cost-effective projects. Project teams can work together anytime, anywhere using Revit with BIM Collaborate Pro, a powerful and secure cloud-based collaboration and data management solution
    Starting Price: $2,545 per year
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    FINE MEP
    CAD & BIM Software for Architecture, Engineering & Construction Intelligent Building Design BIM has never been so easy and affordable. 4M provides the Architecture & Engineering Community with Advanced Verticals since 1986 and with Innovative BIM Solutions since 1994. Today 4M has more than 35.000 Active Users in over 65 Countries Worldwide. 4MCAD Professional CAD new v.21 Smart and low-cost Alternatives to AutoCAD® for 2D & 3D Design in DWG IDEA Architectural Design Intuitive and Powerful BIM Software for 3D/5D Architectural Design in DWG & IFC. FINE MEP Building Services Advanced BIM software for Building services design and calculation. FineENERGY. Advanced BIM software for Energy Simulation and Energy Rating. The Smart Alternative to AutoCAD. 100% DWG Our CAD Software use DWG as their native file format. You can open and modify drawings created by AutoCAD and vice-versa without any import or export. Similar Look & Feel.
    Starting Price: $720, one-time payment
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    BIM Collaborate Pro
    Design collaboration and coordination for smarter project delivery. BIM Collaborate is cloud-based design collaboration and coordination software that connects AEC teams, helping you execute on design intent and deliver high-quality constructible models on a single platform. Stay up to date with design progress. Make smarter decisions with project insights. Assess constructability with automatic clash detection. For design teams, BIM Collaborate Pro, formerly known as BIM 360 Design (read the FAQ), adds cloud collaboration capabilities for model co-authoring (includes Revit Cloud Worksharing, Collaboration for Civil 3D, and Collaboration for Plant 3D). Autodesk® BIM Collaborate and Autodesk® BIM Collaborate Pro connects architecture, engineering, and construction teams on a single platform for improved project outcomes. Improve communication with easy feedback tools. Accelerate timelines with live design co-creation (BIM Collaborate Pro only).
    Starting Price: $70.83 per month
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    Vectorworks Designer
    Built on Vectorworks Fundamentals, Designer has all the design and BIM capabilities of Vectorworks Architect, Landmark, and Spotlight. It’s the most cost-effective way to get the entire suite of Vectorworks technology in one, easy-to-use software interface. Easily create and document any design you can imagine. Sketch, draw, and model in a fully integrated BIM workflow. The industry-leading design software for the entertainment business. The all-in-one solution for landscape design and planning. Your relationship with us doesn't end when you install the software. We’ll help you get up and running fast with online, classroom, or onsite training. Or, learn at your own pace with our online getting started guides and webinars, video tech tips, and community board. And, if you ever get stuck, we’re here to help with free technical support.
    Starting Price: $198 per month
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    Vectorworks Architect
    With more support for common file formats than any other BIM solution, Vectorworks Architect can pull together all necessary information to start your project, providing everything you need for conceptual design, site planning, and analysis all in one interface. Quickly confirm design intent while transitioning from massing models to concept models. BIM software isn’t exactly known for promoting creative expression. But Vectorworks is different. We allow you to freely sketch, model, and document your design ideas with precision drafting capabilities and the most flexible 3D modeling engine available, powered by SIEMENS Parasolid. So you’re not limited by presets and strict parameters — you have the flexibility you need to design anything you can imagine. Getting the most out of the “I” in Building Information Modeling is essential for optimizing your designs.
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    VRcollab

    VRcollab

    VRcollab

    VRcollab is a software that converts BIM models for use in design reviews, building requirement approval and construction coordination. Users can merge multiple BIM models that have been modelled on different software and combine them into one model using VRcollab LITE, facilitating an easy workflow for consultants. In addition, Multi-User functionality aids in the seamless communication between groups whether physically in local meetings or remotely via the internet.
    Starting Price: $3000 per user per year
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    Autodesk AEC Collection
    The AEC Collection provides designers, engineers, and contractors a set of BIM and CAD tools that support projects from early-stage design through to construction. Create high-quality, high-performing building and infrastructure designs with conceptual and detailed design tools. Optimize projects with integrated analysis, generative design, and visualization and simulation tools. Improve predictability in the field with tools that maximize constructability and project coordination. Accelerate design processes and improve quality with integrated workflows for conceptual design, modeling, multidiscipline coordination, and construction documentation. Access tools that enable you to bid for, win, and deliver more business. Automate tasks to reduce design time and improve handoff with streamlined data exchange.
    Starting Price: $3,115 per year
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    CerTus SCAFFOLDING

    CerTus SCAFFOLDING

    ACCA software

    CerTus SCAFFOLDING is the scaffold designer BIM authoring software. With CerTus SCAFFOLDING you have an advanced 3D input and a catalogue of BIM objects to design the scaffolding that you have in mind with maximum design freedom, without any limits and without the risk of neglecting particular design aspects, with an attention to detail unimaginable until now. You can design scaffolding suitable for all construction needs and for all types of structures (small and large buildings, civil and industrial buildings, support and road works, etc.), but also scaffolding to support the construction or maintenance of plants and technical systems installed within a building. You can draw the elements of the scaffolding in plan or directly in 3D view by selecting the characteristics of the objects at any time during the design phase.
    Starting Price: $24.71 per month
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    LIRA-SAPR

    LIRA-SAPR

    LIRALAND Group

    LIRA-SAPR is comprehensive software package that benefits from BIM technology. The software is intended for analysis and design of building and mechanical engineering structures of different purposes. - Static (forces and displacements) and dynamic analyses - Selection and check for sections of steel and/or reinforced concrete (RC) structures - Preliminary drawings of steel structures as well as separate RC elements
    Starting Price: €280/month
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    Building in Cloud
    Building in Cloud is a free service for the management of the entire life cycle of buildings, planning; design; construction; management, and maintenance. All operators in the construction sector, designers; builders; owners, and maintainers, can take significant advantage of its use by having a collaboration platform from which it is possible to share and manage all the information necessary to improve process performance and business objectives. The transmission of the value of the information is available at any time and from anywhere. All operators in the construction sector can take advantage of using Building in Cloud. The availability of information relating to the various phases of the life cycle of a building necessary for the advancement of the order or for maintenance activities allows to optimization of the processes, control, and monitoring of activities allowing compliance with quality, execution times, and costs.
    Starting Price: Free
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    OpenBuildings Designer

    OpenBuildings Designer

    Bentley Systems

    OpenBuildings Designer (formerly AECOsim Building Designer), Bentley’s multi-discipline building information modeling (BIM). Explore, design, and deliver innovative buildings faster. Design, analyze, document, and visualize buildings of any size, form, and complexity. Effectively communicate design intent and bridge barriers between building disciplines and geographically distributed teams. OpenBuildings Designer (formerly AECOsim Building Designer) provides building information modeling (BIM) advancements so you can deliver buildings faster and with greater confidence – confidence in your design, workflow, capabilities, and deliverables. Increase collaboration among architects, mechanical, electrical, and structural engineers with a shared set of tools and workflows. Integrate information you have from multiple formats and easily work on projects of any size. Clearly communicate your design intent with reliable deliverables that you can easily customize.
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    BIMPro

    BIMPro

    MSUITE

    BIMPro is design automation software for fast-paced mechanical, electrical, and plumbing contractors that increases design quality, eliminates the bore of dimensioning and tagging, and improves productivity up to 10x over the competition. By leveraging the power of your industry experience and ours, BIMPro’s rule-based automation allows users to quickly automate fabrication spool & sheet creation, hanger placement, point layout, shop drawings and more. Auto Spool rapidly creates assemblies using construction logic and project parameters to ensure that what gets fabricated in the shop will work for the field. DYI Spool Sheets easily automates the placement of views, dimensions, tags, and more. Whether you are placing dimensions on 3D views or Weld Mapping, let BIMPro MEP automate it. Empower design teams by removing tedious hurdles like properly placing hangers throughout a model. Collaborate with layout teams in the field by automating point placement and reporting.
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    Stabicad

    Stabicad

    Trimble MEP

    Create 3D MEP models in Revit that are truly constructible. From concept to installation, Stabicad supports your design workflows with time-saving productivity tools, comprehensive UK compliant integrated calculations and always up-to-date manufacturer content. With Stabicad go beyond default Revit functionality and dramatically increase your design efficiency while creating usable mechanical and electrical outputs. Easily design pipe systems, configure switch ranges and place manufacturer-specific Revit families within a single BIM model. With the digital evolution of seamless end-to-end building design and construction workflows, the need for precision is now greater than ever. Which is why Trimble MEP has chosen to engage with CIBSE’s pioneering Software Verification Assessment program to verify the accuracy and efficacy of Stabicad’s powerful calculation engines.
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    Higharc

    Higharc

    Higharc

    Say goodbye to disconnected teams and repetitive manual work. Supercharge how you design, sell, and build single-family homes and communities with the only connected platform for production homebuilders. Constant change throughout the homebuilding process leads to painful rework, bad buyer experiences, and unhappy employees. We equip teams with a groundbreaking platform so you can do more of what matters, building great homes. Design homes with real-time automation and manage files 100x faster than CAD. Save weeks with automatic takeoffs, no manual spreadsheets are required. Sell more homes with online 3D customization. Get personalized brochures with one click. Start faster with automated CDs that are permit-ready and lot-specific. Draft plans in a fraction of the time with a groundbreaking generative design platform actually made for homebuilders. Manage any number of options and variations in one intelligent model.
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