Free 3D CAD Software Download

Turn your ideas into 3D with this flexible, easy-to-use application.

With the Creo Elements/Direct Modeling Express free CAD download, you get the freedom to innovate, along with the flexibility to import and repurpose 2D and 3D design data, easily create standard compliant 2D drawings from 3D models, create and modify design data in real time, and much more.

Key benefits:

  • Explore concepts and variations using a direct 3D CAD approach
  • Import and completely edit standard 2D and 3D design data
  • Create parts using 2D profiles and imported 3D design data
  • Edit work with direct cut-paste, push-pull, and drag-drop techniques
  • Create assemblies with up to 60 unique parts
Create standard, compliant 2D drawings from 3D models using just a few simple menu picks.

Create standard, compliant 2D drawings from 3D models using just a few simple menu picks.

The new ribbon-UI makes it easy for new users to get up to speed quickly with features and functions.

The new ribbon-UI makes it easy for new users to get up to speed quickly with features and functions.

Creo Elements/Direct Modeling Express is perfect for engineers who need a fast, simple and flexible 3D CAD system.

Creo Elements/Direct Modeling Express is perfect for engineers who need a fast, simple and flexible 3D CAD system.

Face Part modeling: Face parts modifiable like solid models.

Face Part modeling: Face parts modifiable like solid models.

A direct approach to 3D CAD design makes creation and modification of 3D designs fast, easy, and flexible.

A direct approach to 3D CAD design makes creation and modification of 3D designs fast, easy, and flexible.

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Capabilities
  • Combine the simplicity of 2D CAD with the benefits of 3D CAD with this lightweight, easy-to learn software. Moving from 2D to 3D has never been easier.
  • Respond to unexpected or changing requirements more frequently and much later in the development process.
  • Import and completely edit 3D and 3D design data with numerous powerful capabilities.
  • Create and modify design data in real-time. Drive design changes through direct push-and-pull paradigms. Advanced geometry intelligence automatically recognizes features in the context of the 3D operation- even on geometry that’s imported from other 3D CAD systems.
  • Design using either a top-down or bottom up approach, or drag-and-drop your parts and assemblies just as you do with files and folders. Creo Elements/Direct Modeling Express features a single environment for designing within the context of the whole product assembly. Users don’t just build parts or assemblies- they build real products.

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