For schools and teachers
Free CAD and BIM for every student.
Eight open-source apps for drafting, building design, 3D modeling, review, estimating, civil, detailing and mechanical parts. Free for everyone, in the browser or installed. And for students, SuperCad Studio, the eight apps working as one, free while they are in school.
- 8 appsFree and open source, every feature
- FreeSuperCad Studio for students, while in school
- Open filesDWG, DXF, IFC, STEP, PDF
Why CadCraft
Why schools choose CadCraft
Free for every student, on every computer
All eight apps are free and open source, with every feature. No lab licenses to buy, no seat count to manage and nothing to renew each term. Students can install the same apps at home.
Nothing to install to start
Every app runs in a current desktop browser at getcadcraft.com/use. For lab computers, or for working offline, the eight apps install together as CadCraft Studio.
Open formats students will meet at work
DWG and DXF drawings, IFC building models, STEP parts, PDF sheets, LandXML surfaces. What a student makes opens in the tools used in industry, and drawings from industry open here.
One family for the whole program
Drafting, BIM, 3D modeling, review, estimating, civil, detailing and mechanical parts, with one way of working across them. Students learn one interface, not eight.
Students keep their work
Files are saved on the student's own computer, in open formats. Nothing is locked to a school account, and nothing stops working when the semester ends.
Room to go further
The apps can be driven by scripts and by AI agents, and the code is open. Advanced students can automate a task, write an add-on or read how a tool works.
The work students make opens anywhere
- DWG
- DXF
- IFC
- STEP
- LandXML
- SVG
- XLSX
Open, documented formats, so a drawing made in class goes to an employer, a classmate or a print shop without a conversion step.
Live TeamWork
Teach on one live drawing
Everyone on one drawing
Share the drawing you have open and the class joins in, in any of the eight apps. Every edit shows up for everyone as it happens, with each person's cursor and selection.
Demonstrate, then hand over
Draw the first wall while the class watches, then let a student take the next one. What someone is editing is held for them, so two people never fight over one object.
Mistakes stay small
Undo undoes only your own work, so a student's slip never takes back the teacher's demonstration. You approve each person who joins.
Nothing to install for students
Students join from their own CadCraft Studio, or from a browser on the school network with nothing to install. The teacher hosts from CadCraft Studio on the desktop.
In the classroom or lab: read out a short code, and students on the school network join. Free for everyone, and nothing passes through our servers.
Every app is an early build (version 0.8), with new versions often. Try a lesson yourself before you teach it, and tell us what is missing.
The lineup
Eight apps, one for each course
Each app is named for the work it does. They share one way of working, so what students learn in one carries into the next.
CadCraft 2D drafting & 3D modeling
Command-line drafting with layers, blocks, dimensions and layouts that plot, plus a 3D tab for solids. Opens and saves DWG and DXF.
In class: Technical drawing, drafting fundamentals, CAD 1 and 2, 3D basics
BimCraft BIM review & editing
Open, check and edit IFC building models, with 3D, sections, schedules and clash checks.
In class: Architecture studio, BIM, building systems, construction management
ModelCraft 3D modeling for design
Fast push/pull modeling with groups, components, guides and inference snapping, for massing and early design.
In class: Design studio, massing, interior and set design, 3D printing prep
MarkupCraft Drawing review & markup
Open a PDF plan set, mark it up from a saved tool chest, compare revisions and run punch lists with the whole team.
In class: Design reviews, construction documents, project management
TakeoffCraft Quantity takeoff & estimating
Calibrated linear, area and count takeoff from PDF plans and DWG or DXF drawings, with assemblies, cost columns and quantities that export.
In class: Estimating, quantity surveying, construction management
CivilCraft Civil & site design
Surfaces from points and breaklines, alignments, profiles, corridors, grading and pipe networks. LandXML in and out.
In class: Civil engineering, surveying, site design, landscape
DetailCraft Steel & rebar detailing
Structural steel members and connections, rebar placement and bending schedules, shop drawings and NC files from one model.
In class: Structural steel, concrete and rebar detailing
PartCraft Parametric parts & assemblies
Constrained sketches, feature history, assemblies with joints and drawings with GD&T. STEP in and out.
In class: Mechanical design, engineering graphics, product design, manufacturing
Use every app at getcadcraft.com/use, or install all eight together as CadCraft Studio from getcadcraft.com/download. Tutorials for each app: getcadcraft.com/tutorials.
Student Program
SuperCad Studio, free for students
SuperCad Studio is the power of eight apps, working as one: site, building, sheets and takeoff in one window, on one project. It sells for $250 a seat. Students get it free for as long as they are in school.
Teach the whole job, not one program
SuperCad Studio hosts the eight apps as panels in one window. A class can go from the site to the building, the model, the quantities and the sheets without closing one program and opening another.
One project, linked
One project file holds the drawing, the model, the markups, the quantities and the parts, with the links between them. Change a wall once; the quantity rows follow.
Workspaces named for the work
Layout, Build, Model, Report and price, Finalize and export. Students see the stages a real project moves through.
Find any tool in a second
One search (Ctrl+K) reaches every tool in all eight apps and says why a tool cannot run right now.
Hand in a complete set
One export set writes the PDF, DWG, DXF, IFC, BCF, XLSX and STEP files as a single zip, ready to turn in.
After school, it stays theirs
The installed program keeps working after graduation. Only new versions stop, until the student chooses a graduate license.
The student path
- FreeWhile you are a student
- $75Anytime after you finish school
- $125Anytime after your upgrade period
- $150From then on
Steps 2 to 4 are optional upgrade pricing, per seat in US dollars, locked in the day a student joins. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux, and online.
How a student joins
- 1
Apply
At getcadcraft.com/education, with a school email, the school and the year they expect to finish.
- 2
Click
The link we email. A .edu address gets the license at once; other addresses are checked by a person.
- 3
Stay
Once a year, one click on "Yep, still a student" keeps the upgrades coming.
Students apply in a minute
At getcadcraft.com/education with their school email. A .edu address gets the license the moment they click the link we send. Teachers apply there too: choose "I teach". Classroom licenses are being set up.