OCCT VS FreeCAD

Compare OCCT vs FreeCAD and see what are their differences.

OCCT

Open CASCADE Technology (OCCT) is an open-source software development platform for 3D CAD, CAM, CAE. This is a clone of the official repository located on https://dev.opencascade.org/. Please use official development portal for registering issues and providing patches. (by Open-Cascade-SAS)

FreeCAD

This is the official source code of FreeCAD, a free and opensource multiplatform 3D parametric modeler. (by FreeCAD)
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OCCT FreeCAD
11 234
838 17,387
7.4% 2.6%
8.2 10.0
4 days ago 2 days ago
C++ C++
GNU Lesser General Public License v3.0 only GNU General Public License v3.0 or later
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OCCT

Posts with mentions or reviews of OCCT. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-10-23.

FreeCAD

Posts with mentions or reviews of FreeCAD. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-10-20.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing OCCT and FreeCAD you can also consider the following projects:

CavalierContours - 2D polyline library for offsetting, combining, etc.

LibreCAD - LibreCAD is a cross-platform 2D CAD program written in C++17. It can read DXF/DWG files and can write DXF/PDF/SVG files. It supports point/line/circle/ellipse/parabola/spline primitives. The user interface is highly customizable, and has dozens of translations.

awesome-openscad - A collection of awesome OpenSCAD projects

FreeCAD_assembly3 - Experimental attempt for the next generation assembly workbench for FreeCAD

pymadcad - Simple yet powerful CAD (Computer Aided Design) library, written with Python.

Visual Studio Code - Visual Studio Code

OCP

libredwg - Official mirror of libredwg. With CI hooks and nightly releases. PR's ok

PrusaSlicer - G-code generator for 3D printers (RepRap, Makerbot, Ultimaker etc.)

qcad - QCAD - The Open Source 2D CAD. QCAD is a cross-platform CAD solution for Windows, macOS and Linux. It supports the DXF format and optionally the DWG format (through a proprietary plugin).

oc - OpenCASCADE wrappers for Lisp

OpenBuilds-Fusion360-Postprocessor - Post Processor for Fusion 360 for use with OpenBuilds Machines running Grbl 1.1