FreeCADOriginally Posted by JohnMyers
https://www.freecadweb.org/downloads.php
Seems to be a pretty good piece of open source engineering software. (And free!)
FreeCAD
https://www.freecadweb.org/downloads.php
Seems to be a pretty good piece of open source engineering software. (And free!)
I second that. FreeCad is closer to SOLIDWORKS than AutoCAD in my opinion. Also if you are dealing with objects only for 3d printing I'd recommend Blender. I really think SOLIDWORKS is shooting themselves in the foot here when the competition is offering free edu programs/ open source.
If you want to spend money for CAM Autodesk HSM is amazing MasterCam beats them out but at a price. I've also tried ESPIRT but it's kinda clumsy but If I remember right it's cheaper than both of those.
CFD is OpenFoam (Linux based) or ANSYS. FreeCAD has CAE but I've never tried it personally.
We do have options but sadly non of them are all inclusive like SOLIDWORKS was.
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