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Explore 6 industry-standard cad tools used by top architecture firms and designers.

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6 tools

AutoCAD
by Autodesk
CAD
Industry-standard 2D and 3D CAD for drafting, design, and documentation. Subscription includes specialized toolsets and web/mobile access.

$1,605/year · subscription

1 professionals using used in 1 projects

AutoCAD Web

Draft, annotate and add field data to drawings online

$127/year · subscription

used in 1 projects

AutoCAD LT

Cost-effective 2D CAD software for drafting, drawing and documentation

$427/year · subscription

New to Archade

MicroStation

by Bentley Systems

CAD and BIM platform

Contact Bentley for pricing · subscription

New to Archade

Vectorworks Fundamentals

Core 2D/3D design

Subscription; see Vectorworks for pricing · subscription

New to Archade

BricsCAD

CAD that works

Perpetual or subscription; see Bricsys · perpetual

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