As technology evolves and people lean towards aesthetics while still demanding the best functionalities in products, mechanical engineers are faced with the challenge of designing more complex products every day. And as such, mechanical engineers are required to not only select…
Matterport is a useful tool that’s been gaining traction with real estate professionals and new homeowners recently. It’s essentially a service that syncs up with standard iPhone and Android camera phones as well as various supported 360° cameras in order to…
Fusion 360 is a product of Autodesk, which is also the company behind other CAD programs like Inventor and AutoCAD. It is among the most widely used 3D CAD, CAM, and CAE software around the world. Due to its growing popularity,…
Autodesk Inventor computer-aided design (CAD) software facilitates 3D mechanical design, visualization, simulation and analysis, rendering, and documentation. It has powerful features that provide designers and engineers professional-grade engineering and design solutions. Some of these features include the ability to integrate both…
Intro One of the most commonly used formats when it comes to file-sharing in this digital age is the PDF file. It’s a useful format for those who specifically value compact file-sizes since PDF files typically have smaller sizes than their…
The CAD, CAM, and CAE world comprises multiple software products, some of which are created by the same developer. That statement has likely taken your mind to the numerous products under Autodesk, understandably so. As Scan2CAD, we have compared several Autodesk…
LibreCAD is one of the more well-known free CAD solutions in the market. It’s not uncommon to see professionals using LibreCAD as an economical CAD alternative for more streamlined drafting processes. But the program is more typically used by newer CAD…
When Vectorworks was created in 1985 as MiniCAD, it was a single product, compatible with a single operating system, created for a single industry/purpose. Today, however, Vectorworks consists of a line up of various highly functional CAD packages that cater to…
Since it was launched in 2000, SketchUp has become a very popular CAD program among designers, engineers, and architects due to its simple intuitive user interface and fast learning curve. SketchUp is primarily used for architecture rendering, making 3D models of…
Pro/Engineer, as it was formerly known, was released in 1987 by PTC and later rebirthed as Creo in 2011. PTC is an intuitive multidisciplinary 3D CAD program with a family of design tools for computer-aided design, engineering, and manufacturing. Using this…
Video tutorial: Converting a PDF for BricsCAD In this video tutorial, we show how to convert a raster or vector PDF to BricsCAD using Scan2CAD. BricsCAD is a CAD software developed by Bricsys NV, a company that specializes in 2D and…
Quick start video tutorial: Converting images for Fusion 360 In this video, we use Scan2CAD to convert an image for Fusion 360 Fusion 360 is Autodesk’s integrated 3D CAD solution for the constant woes of disconnected software workflows. The program is…
Most CAD applications require users to purchase or subscribe for licenses, which is quite expensive for engineers, architectures, and designers. But that is not the case with LibreCAD, which is a free open-source CAD application for creating industrial and graphic designs….
AutoCAD is one of the most widely used CAD applications around and AutoCAD files are everywhere from design to engineering including electrical engineering drawings. However, although AutoCAD is that versatile, it has a very high annual subscription fee thus the need…
The development of CAD for the creation, modification, optimization of designs and models is one of the world’s most important innovations. This technology saves a lot of money and time, increases design quality, and even reduces risks of life and property…
LibreCAD is one of the most commonly used free CAD applications used around the globe because it is a free open source CAD application, it has a sharp learning curve and it is supported by a variety of operating systems including…
Today, we are very excited to announce the formal release of ‘Scan2CAD Automate‘. Scan2CAD Automate offers gives you the power to automate any feature of Scan2CAD with a simple, extendable Python API. We’re excited about how this new feature can bring Scan2CAD’s market-leading…
AutoCAD is one of the most used CAD software around the globe. However, it is relatively expensive since it costs $1,575 a year. For interoperability purposes, Autodesk, the company behind AutoCAD and one of the largest names in the field of…
People have always been in search of mobility in their day-to-day activities, including work. It is no surprise, therefore, that CAD has evolved from being available on only mainframe computers to be available on personal computers, and today, you can create…
Solid Edge is the result of Siemens PLM’s own foray into the CAD industry back in 1995. It’s a robust piece of software for drafting, modeling, and simulation and consistently one of the most solid picks among the many CAD programs…
