Comparison of CAD editors for CAM
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This is a comparison of CAD software for the field of Computer-aided manufacturing (abbreviated to CAM). This is an overview about credible aspects of flexibility of CAD software, not a judgement about their power, ease of work, and other quality-related aspects.
Computer Aided Design (CAD) refers to a type of software application for creating technical drawings. Specifically the software is not only able to present forms on the screen (like animation and modeling software), but has build-in tools for printing and layout on paper.
There are separate comparisons for CAD Editors for Architecture, Engineering and Construction and CAD Editos for computer-aided engineering.
[edit] Comparison of CAD Editors for Computer Aided Manufacturing
| Application and developer | Latest version/release + date | 2D/3D or Specialty fields | Runs on POSIX style systems? | Runs on Windows? | Other platforms? | Open source? |
User Interface Language(s) | Stable? | Support for Industry Foundation Classes? | Imports | Exports |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Eagle CadSoft | Unknown 5.4.1 |
Printed circuit board | Yes | Yes | No | Proprietary | ger, eng | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown |
| gEDA | 29 September 2008 1.4.1 |
Printed circuit board | Yes | ? | No | Yes | eng | Yes | ? | ? | ? |
| KiCad by the KiCad developers | 2008-08-04 r1176 |
Printed circuit board | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | eng, fra, por, spa, ger, rus | Unknown | No | TinyCAD netlists, OrCAD EDIF | No |
| Mentor Graphics by Mentor Graphics | Unknown | Printed circuit board | Yes | Yes | Unknown | Proprietary | eng | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown |
| OrCAD by Cadence Design Systems | Unknown | Printed circuit board | Yes | Yes | Unknown | Proprietary | eng | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown |
| TinyCAD by the developers of TinyCAD | Unknown | Printed circuit board | No | Yes | No | Yes | eng | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown | PNG, EMF |
| Viewlogic by Synopsys | Unknown | Printed circuit board | Yes | Yes | Unknown | Proprietary | eng | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown |
