+
+

Related Products

  • Altium Develop
    1,390 Ratings
    Visit Website
  • MicroStation
    593 Ratings
    Visit Website
  • ActCAD Software
    401 Ratings
    Visit Website
  • MRPeasy
    251 Ratings
    Visit Website
  • Epsilon3
    265 Ratings
    Visit Website
  • Flowlens
    39 Ratings
    Visit Website
  • MobiOffice
    14,822 Ratings
    Visit Website
  • Digit
    34 Ratings
    Visit Website
  • Servers.com by Nexcess
    15 Ratings
    Visit Website
  • Fishbowl
    1,135 Ratings
    Visit Website

About

Alibre Design is a 3D modeling, analysis, manufacturing documentation, rendering, and publishing platform. It is used in every industry to take products from idea to revision to production. It can help your business to design everything from consumer products to wind turbines. An efficient and customizable user interface that lets you work like you want with helpful hints. A fast and precise sketching environment that captures design intent and makes changes easy. Robust and fully parametric 3D modeling tools and easy workflows speed up part creation. A dedicated sheet metal environment with tools just for sheet good design and easy flat pattern creation. A dedicated sheet metal environment with tools just for sheet good design and easy flat pattern creation. An automatically generated bill of materials that supports design data, physical properties, and dimensions.

About

FreeCAD is an open-source parametric 3D modeler made primarily to design real-life objects of any size. Parametric modeling allows you to easily modify your design by going back into your model history and changing its parameters. FreeCAD allows you to sketch geometry constrained 2D shapes and use them as a base to build other objects. It contains many components to adjust dimensions or extract design details from 3D models to create high quality production ready drawings. FreeCAD is a multiplatfom (Windows, Mac and Linux), highly customizable and extensible software. It reads and writes to many open file formats such as STEP, IGES, STL, SVG, DXF, OBJ, IFC, DAE and many others, making it possible to seamlessly integrate it into your workflow. FreeCAD is designed to fit a wide range of uses including product design, mechanical engineering and architecture. Whether you are a hobbyist, a programmer, an experienced CAD user, a student or a teacher, you will feel right at home with FreeCAD.

Platforms Supported

Windows
Mac
Linux
Cloud
On-Premises
iPhone
iPad
Android
Chromebook

Platforms Supported

Windows
Mac
Linux
Cloud
On-Premises
iPhone
iPad
Android
Chromebook

Audience

Engineering Professionals searching for a product design software

Audience

Engineering Professionals in search of a professional 3D parametric modeler software solution for their models

Support

Phone Support
24/7 Live Support
Online

Support

Phone Support
24/7 Live Support
Online

API

Offers API

API

Offers API

Screenshots and Videos

Screenshots and Videos

Pricing

No information available.
Free Version
Free Trial

Pricing

No information available.
Free Version
Free Trial

Reviews/Ratings

Overall 3.0 / 5
ease 4.0 / 5
features 3.0 / 5
design 4.0 / 5
support 2.0 / 5

Reviews/Ratings

Overall 5.0 / 5
ease 4.0 / 5
features 4.0 / 5
design 4.0 / 5
support 5.0 / 5

Pros & Cons from Real Users

Pros

  • Easy to learn. Basic modeling is okay. Surface modeling is included but not worthy to touch. Basic assemblies is okay. Complex modeling (More than 300 parts) will slow down your system and crashes are to expect.

Cons

  • Support denies bugs and will first blame the user. 1.400 Euro instead of the "one time price of 169 USD" stated on this website. Outdated Geometric dimensioning and tolerancing and for that reason not according the ISO standard. Hidden bugs. For example (may 2021) when assigning materials ones from your own library and then again from the Alibre library, your whole part naming in your assembly will be corrupt. And yes, support denies and is not helping here.

Pros & Cons from Real Users

Pros

  • It works very well. It has a somewhat steep learning curve which is less if you come to it fresh. It is a very, very good program. I've used the other big 3, and this is very, very comparable. I highly recommend it.

Cons

  • Nothing comes to mind.

Training

Documentation
Webinars
Live Online
In Person

Training

Documentation
Webinars
Live Online
In Person

Company Information

Alibre
Founded: 1997
United States
www.alibre.com

Company Information

FreeCAD
Founded: 2011
sourceforge.net/projects/free-cad/

Alternatives

SOLIDWORKS

SOLIDWORKS

Dassault Systèmes

Alternatives

MicroStation

MicroStation

Bentley Systems
Inventor

Inventor

Autodesk
iC3D

iC3D

Creative Edge Software
BeckerCAD

BeckerCAD

SoftMaker
CATIA

CATIA

Dassault Systèmes

Categories

Categories

Engineering Features

2D Drawing
3D Modeling
Chemical Engineering
Civil Engineering
Collaboration
Design Analysis
Design Export
Document Management
Electrical Engineering
Mechanical Engineering
Mechatronics
Presentation Tools
Structural Engineering

3D Modeling Features

2D Drawing
Animation
Annotations
Bill of Materials
Character Modeling
Collaboration Tools
Component Library
Data Import / Export
For 3D Printing
For Architects
For Manufacturers
Reference Management
Simulation

CAD Features

2 1/2-Axis Milling
2D Drawing
3-Axis Milling
3D Modeling
4-Axis Milling
5-Axis Milling
Civil
Collaboration
Database Connectivity
Design Analysis
Design Export
Document Management
Electrical
Hole Making
Mechanical
Mechatronics
Presentation Tools
Simulate Cycles
Spiral Output
Structural Engineering
Toolpath Simulation
User Defined Cycles

Engineering Features

2D Drawing
3D Modeling
Chemical Engineering
Civil Engineering
Collaboration
Design Analysis
Design Export
Document Management
Electrical Engineering
Mechanical Engineering
Mechatronics
Presentation Tools
Structural Engineering

Integrations

MeshCAM
SprutCAM X
Alibre Workshop
BoltsEtAl
ENCY
ENCY Robot
EZ-CAM
SimLab CAD Viewer
SimLab Composer
Virtofy

Integrations

MeshCAM
SprutCAM X
Alibre Workshop
BoltsEtAl
ENCY
ENCY Robot
EZ-CAM
SimLab CAD Viewer
SimLab Composer
Virtofy
Claim Alibre Design and update features and information
Claim Alibre Design and update features and information
Claim FreeCAD and update features and information
Claim FreeCAD and update features and information