AutoCAD for mechanical drawings

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  • 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.

    FreeCad is not an equivalent to autocad; It's more like Inventor/Solidworks. If you're looking for an opensource to (2d) Autocad, consider librecad / qcad... (And others, google opensource autocad alternatives. I personally like Blender, it's not made for cad but there's cad plugins for dimensioning etc, and is great for renderings, but it would be about as easy as freecad to learn and it's even less "industry standard"/interoperable files/talent for this type of work.)

  • WorkOS

    The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.

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