List of CAD companies: Meaning (information, definition, explanation, facts)

Many CAD companies have produced CAD software from the 1970s through to the present. Some of them are listed below. The list is far from complete or representative, since the CAD business landscape is very dynamic: almost every month new companies appear, old companies go out of business, companies split and merge. Sometimes some names disappear and reappear again.

• Alias
  • StudioTools
• Alibre, Inc.
  • Alibre Design
• Applicon
  • BRAVO! for VAX
• Ashlar Inc.
  • Ashlar Vellum
• Autodesk
  • AutoCAD and its variants
  • Inventor
• Aveva (formerly CadCentre)
  • PDMS (Plant Design Management System)
• Bentley Systems
  • MicroStation
• CadCam Systems
• CADOpia
  • IntelliCAD
• CalComp
  • CADVANCE (earlier versions)
• CNC Software Inc.
  • MasterCAM
• Computervision
  • CADDS
• Dassault Systèmes
  • CATIA
• EaglePoint
  • EaglePoint 2000
• Felix CAT
  • Felix CAD
• Foresight Resources, Co.
  • Drafix CAD
• GESTEL
  • solidThinking for NEXTSTEP and Mac
• Graphisoft
  • ArchiCAD
• Hewlett-Packard
  • HP-ME10
• Imagineer
  • Imagineer Technical
• IMSI
  • TurboCAD
• Intergraph
  • Intergraph
• ISICAD
  • CADVANCE
• Land CADD
  • Site Designer
• Matra DataVision
  • Open CASCADE
• Micro-Control Systems
  • CADKEY
• Nemetschek
  • AllPlan FT
• Numerica Software
  • Visual CADD
• Parametric Technology Corp.
  • CADDS 5i
  • Pro/DESKTOP
  • Pro/ENGINEER
  • Pro/MECHANICA
• ReVit Technology
  • ReVit (bought by Autodesk)
• Robert McNeel & Associates
  • Rhino 3D
• Shape Data Ltd.
  • ParaSolid
• SoftSource
  • vDraft
• SolidWorks Corporation
  • SolidWorks, COSMOS
• Spatial Corp.
  • 3D ACIS Modeler
• Surfware, Inc.
  • SurfCAM
• T&W Systems
  • VersaCAD
• Tech Soft America
  • HOOPS 3D
• Think3
  • ThinkDesign
• UNC Software GmbH
  • CAM Specialist
• UniGraphics
  • NX
  • SolidEdge
• Varimetrix
  • Varimetrix
• Xitron Software
  • XCAD