Best CAD Viewers Software

Products Buyer's Guide
8.2
DraftSight
★★★★★

DraftSight

DraftSight lets professional CAD users, students and educators create, edit and view DWG files. DraftSight runs on WindowsВ®, MacВ® and Linux.

One of the greatest CAD software - Sven H.

Ease of use
8.1
Support
8.1
Ease of Setup
9.4

Languages supported: Czech, German, English, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Turkish, Chinese (Simplified)

8.2
Autodesk Viewer
★★★★★

Autodesk Viewer

Autodesk Viewer supports most 2D and 3D formats including DWG, STEP, RVT, and Solidworks.

The best and fast drawing file viewer in the world. - Zakaria B.

Ease of use
9.3
Support
10.0
Ease of Setup
0.0
8.6
FreeCAD
★★★★★

FreeCAD

FreeCAD is a parametric 3D modeler made primarily to design real-life objects of any size.

Mind blowing tool for converting ideas into realities - Robbert S.

Ease of use
8.1
Support
8.8
Ease of Setup
7.6

Platforms: Mac, Win, Linux

Price: $$$$$

Business Size: 1

7.8
Autodesk 360
★★★★★

Autodesk 360

Autodesk A360 enables design and engineering centric project teams to work efficiently together in one central workspace.

(Fusion360) Straight forward, easy to use and understand - Shane M.

Ease of use
7.9
Support
7.5
Ease of Setup
8.3
9.4
Onshape
★★★★★

Onshape

Onshape is a modern CAD system that eliminates design gridlock and helps engineers do their best work. Onshape unites advanced modeling tools and design data management in a secure cloud workspace that has rapidly become the primary CAD system for thousands of companies worldwide.

Onshape - Future of CAD - Ian C.

Ease of use
8.9
Support
9.5
Ease of Setup
0.0

Languages supported: German, English, Japanese, Korean, Spanish, Chinese (Simplified)

Platforms: Win

Price: $$$$$

Business Size: 1

9.0
ACTCAD Professional
★★★★★

ACTCAD Professional

ActCAD has been consistently providing CAD Solutions for years and is the leading Indian CAD Software trusted by over 1 Million happy users worldwide. A power-packed genuine CAD Software available to you at a reasonable price.

I am using ActCAD from Aug-2018, Bought ActCAD 2019 Pro & upgraded to ActCAD 2020 Pro-Dongle License - MK S.

Ease of use
8.8
Support
8.9
Ease of Setup
8.9

Languages supported: Czech, German, Greek, English, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Serbian, Turkish

8.8
Design Review
★★★★★

Design Review

Design Review CAD viewer software lets you view, mark up, print, and track changes to 2D and 3D files for freewithout the original design software. Work with a variety of file formats, including: DWF, DWFx, DWG, and DXF (requires installation of free DWG TrueView software); Adobe PDF; as well as image file types such as.bmp, .jpg, .gif, .pcx, .pct, .png, .rlc, .tga, .tif, .mil, .cal, and more.

The right tool, for free. - Victor S.

Ease of use
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8.6
Inventor
★★★★★

Inventor

InventorВ® 3D CAD software offers an easy-to-use set of tools for 3D mechanical design, documentation, and product simulation.

Really like to use but want some improvements - Avinash Singh K.

Ease of use
8.3
Support
8.7
Ease of Setup
8.7

Languages supported: English

Platforms: Mac, Win, Linux

Price: $$$$$

Business Size: 1

9.0
Fusion 360
★★★★★

Fusion 360

Fusion 360 unifies design, engineering, and manufacturing into a single platform.

Great CAD/CAM for small business - James P.

Ease of use
8.5
Support
9.0
Ease of Setup
8.7

Languages supported: German, English, French, Italian, Japanese

Platforms: Mac, Win, Linux

Price: $$$$$

Business Size: 0

9.4
Creo View Express
★★★★★

Creo View Express

Creo Elements/View Express is the world's highest performance 3D CAD visual collaboration solutions.

Good viewer for vector drawings - JAGANATH N.

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7.6
DWG Viewer 2.0
★★★★★

DWG Viewer 2.0

DWG Viewer 2.0 is an easy to use app for viewing AutoCAD DWG and DXF files from a PC on the Mac.

DWG Viewer is smart and simple DWG Viewer - Consultant in Construction

Ease of use
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7.0
Bentley View
★★★★★

Bentley View

Bentley View is the industry's most powerful free viewer. You can view over 50 file formats, including CAD and raster images as well as Bentley's uniquely powerful iModels.

The best software to verify dimensions - Miguel E.

Ease of use
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7.6
LibreCAD
★★★★★

LibreCAD

LibreCAD is a free Open Source CAD application for Windows, Apple and Linux.

When you need to create 2D technical drawing I always use LibreCAD. - Kiril C.

Ease of use
6.6
Support
7.2
Ease of Setup
6.1
9.4
IrfanView
★★★★★

IrfanView

IrfanView seeks to create unique, new and interesting features, unlike some other graphic viewers, whose whole "creativity" is based on feature cloning, stealing of ideas and whole dialogs from ACDSee and/or IrfanView! (for example: XnView has been stealing/cloning features and whole dialogs from IrfanView, for 10+ years).

Irfanview is the Easiest Graphic Editing Software for Desktops and Windows 10 - Vinod B.

Ease of use
9.1
Support
9.4
Ease of Setup
0.0
9.6
DWG FastView Plus
★★★★★

DWG FastView Plus

A lightest, easy-to-use viewer with most compact interface plus tools for fast and simply view, measure, plot and share DWG/DXF files.

DWG FASTView Plus - Gregory H.

Ease of use
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9.0
SpinFire Ultimate
★★★★★

SpinFire Ultimate

SpinFire Ultimate is a CAD Viewer with multi-CAD support for 3D and 2D viewing, measuring, markup and other investigative functions. SpinFire is able to convert CAD models into a compact, lightweight and neutral format for sharing with internal and external teams.

View and Markup 3D CAD data - Jeffrey S.

Ease of use
Support
Ease of Setup

Languages supported: Czech, German, English, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Spanish, Chinese (Simplified)

8.0
EnSuite-View
★★★★★

EnSuite-View

EnSuite-View is a software that allows users to view all major CAD formats (CATIA, NX, SOLIDWORKS, Creo, Autodesk Inventor, Solid Edge, Rhinoceros, Parasolid, ACIS, IGES, STEP, JT, VDA, SketchUp, and Adobe 3D PDF), as well as neutral formats, without requiring a license of any CAD system which allow users to analyze models and assemblies.

Perfect for viewing CAD formats without needing a license! - Michael B.

Ease of use
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7.0
Bricsys 24/7
★★★★★

Bricsys 24/7

Bricsys 24/7 is a cloud collaboration tool designed to help teams collaborate on construction projects.

Works well enough - Grace R.

Ease of use
Support
Ease of Setup

Languages supported: German, English, French, Italian, Japanese, Lithuanian, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Slovenian, Spanish, Chinese (Simplified)

9.0
K-Display View
★★★★★

K-Display View

Ready for AnythingWith K-Display View, you will always be prepared for the next CAD file, no matter what it is. K-Display requires no additional CAD software and is designed with an intuitive interface, allowing manufacturing, sales, support, and service departments to easily view and interrogate files. You can relax because K-Display View is a local install, read-only program so you will never save a changed version of the file or need to ...

Software for Easy File Management - Wango K.

Ease of use
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Ease of Setup

Languages supported: English

9.0
DWGSee
★★★★★

DWGSee

DWGSee is a featured product of AutoDWG.com, which was founded in 2002, over decade of development we've grown as 50 developers and technicians spread all over the world, we are specialists on Adobe and AutoCAD data processing, our other products are capable to read and write PDF, DWG, DXF, DWF, SWF, GIF file formats, convert file format between them, extract attributes, encrypt and sharing files

Excellent for quick DWG viewer! - User in Events Services

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6.0
PloView
★★★★★

PloView

PloView is viewer for viewing drawing of HPGL, PDF, DXF, DWG, GERBER, IGES, TIFF, JPEG file. Color and width change, black and white/color change, background color change, pen ON/OFF. Merge ON/OFF. Rotation, mirror, grid displaying. Thumbnail displaying. Measurement function. Connected line search.

PloView is user friendly and affordable - User in Architecture & Planning

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6.0
Guthrie CAD Viewer
★★★★★

Guthrie CAD Viewer

CAD Viewer is an DWG Viewer that views/prints DWF, DXF and DWG drawings up to AutoCAD 2020, as well as Microstation DGN, PDF drawings, HGPL, ESRI Shapefile, and multiple raster image formats. CAD Viewer features include save to PDF, convert DWG to PDF, DXF to PDF, DGN to PDF, with the option to output drawings individually or as a single combined PDF drawings book.

REVIEW OF GUTHRIE CAD VIEWER - Executive Sponsor in Legal Services

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10.0
3D-Tool File Viewer
★★★★★

3D-Tool File Viewer

The 3D-Tool Free Viewer is free for private and commercial usage. It is made to open DDD models published with the 3D-Tool CAD viewer but it is also a powerful freeware STL viewer. The chargeable commercial 3D-Tool CAD viewer supports most common CAD systems and 3D file formats and there is also a free 14 day trial available.

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0.0
Apowersoft CAD
★★★★★

Apowersoft CAD

Apowersoft Background Eraser is a piece of powerful software that can remove background from any image quickly and easily. It uses the advanced AI tech which has been trained with millions of real-world images, so it can pick the foreground from the image in just seconds. After you upload your image, the precise cutout will be produced. Then you can further enhance it: zoom in and out to edit the edge with the Keep and Erase tool, move, crop, ...

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0.0
DMU Reviewer
★★★★★

DMU Reviewer

A powerful yet easy to use, DMU Reviewer is a desktop software serving both dynamic engineering and users with little or even no CAD experience to view and collaborate on 3D and 2D CAD files. The software comes with a robust feature set for CAD models visualization and navigation, geometric measurements, detailed analysis, clipping planes, filtering, views creation, etc. DMU Reviewer supports most popular 3D file formats as well as 2D drawings.

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0.0
ZWCAD viewer
★★★★★

ZWCAD viewer

ZWCAD Viewer is a lighter, faster and more accurate application developed by ZWSOFT for CAD users, it provides users with a convenient way to view and plot drawings.

The best Autocad alternative - Ivica D.

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