Many CAD companies have produced CAD software from the 1970s through to the present. Some of them are listed below. The list is far from complete or representative, since the CAD business landscape is very dynamic: almost every month new companies appear, old companies go out of business, companies split and merge. Sometimes some names disappear and reappear again.
Commercial CAD Software
- A9TECH
- Adra Systems
- Alias
- Alibre, Inc.
- Applicon
- Ashlar Inc.
- Autodesk
- Aveva (formerly CadCentre)
- PDMS (Plant Design Management System)
- Bentley Systems
- CadCam Systems
- CADopia
- CalComp
- CADVANCE (earlier versions)
- CNC Software Inc.
- Computervision
- CoCreate
- Designer Modeler
- DesignWave
- DataCAD LLC
- Dassault Systèmes
- EaglePoint
- Felix GmbH
- Foresight Resources, Co.
- GESTEL
- Graphisoft
- Hewlett-Packard/CoCreate (subsidiary of HP)
- ME10, ME11
- OneSpace Designer
- IMSI
- Ing.-Buero FRIEDRICH (http://www.ibfriedrich.com)
- Intergraph
- GeoMedia
- IGDS
- Intergraph
- InterAct
- SmartPlant
- SmartSketch
- ISICAD
- Land CADD
- Matra DataVision
- Micro-Control Systems
- MCS
- Napa Oy
- Nemetschek
- Nemetschek North America (formerly Diehl Graphsoft)
- VectorWorks (formerly MiniCAD)
- Numerica Software
- Parametric Technology Corporation
- ReVit Technology
- ReVit (bought by Autodesk)
- RibbonSoft
- Robert McNeel & Associates
- Rhinoceros
- Flamingo
- AccuRender
- Penguin
- Bongo
- UGS Corp.
- SoftSource
- SolidWorks Corporation
- Spatial Corp.
- Surfware, Inc.
- T&W Systems
- Tech Soft America
- Think3
- UNC Software GmbH
- UniGraphics
- VariCAD s. r. o.
- Varimetrix
- Xitron Software
Proprietary CAD Software
- Boeing - Aerospace
- Ford Motor Company - Automotive
- General Electric (GE)
- General Motors - Automotive
- Lockheed - Aerospace
- CADAM (evolves into CATIA)
- McDonnell Douglas - Aerospace
- Mercedes-Benz (Daimler-Benz) - Automotive
- Nissan - Automotive
- Northrop - Aerospace
- Renault - Automotive
- Toyota - Automotive
Open Source CAD Software
- U.S. Army Research Laboratory
- RibbonSoft
See also
External links
- A readable history of CAD software (http://www.cadazz.com), including the evolution of many of the leading CAD software venors is available at CADAZZ
