Free Autocad for Electrical Drawings

In this article, I'm listing the topmost electrical CAD (Computer-Aided Design) software. Also, I'm sharing links for ECAD software free download.

CAD software is used in two main engineering streams Electrical and Mechanical Engineering. For electrical engineering, ECAD (Electrical Computer-Aided Design) software is utilized.

What is the use of ECAD Software?

ECAD software is used to design electrical circuits. It preferred than drawing the design on paper.  It means that we don't require a pen or pencil or paper to draw the circuit.

ECAD software helps to build 2D and 3D type electrical and electronic circuits. Due to the utilization of this designing software, you can easily build, assemble, compose and simulate the circuit. Using this tool for designing, you save a lot of time.

ECAD consists of different software. ECAD tools like electrical symbols, types of equipment, rating as per the equipment.

The drawing design with ECAD is very simple. You need to use drag and drop options to design the circuit by using software tools.

Here you go- topmost CAD software list.

• What are the Different Types of ECAD Software?
  • ECad software Free Download (Open Source)
  • Proprietary or License Based ECAD Software
• How can you make the Best use of these Electrical CAD tools?

What are the Different Types of ECAD Software?

Here,  I am listing the best free (open source) and paid CAD software for electrical and electronic engineers.

ECad software Free Download (Open Source)

The open-source ECAD software is used for learning and practicing purposes.

Some popular free ECAD software-

1. Electric
   This tool can be used for different forms of design like Custom Integrated-Circuit layout, Schematics, Hardware description languages. Read detail about the Electric EDA tool.
2. Fritzing (Download)
   Though it is open-source you have to pay to download this software to ensure future releases, bugfixes, and features.
3. KiCad
   You can download this software for different Operating Systems like Ubuntu, macOS, Windows, Debian, Arch Linux, Fedora, OpenSUSE, Linux Mint, Flatpak, Gentoo, Sabayon, and FreeBSD.
4. gEDA
   This project was started because of the lack of free EDA tools available for design. They provide different releases for the different operating systems. You can download it here.
5. XCircuit– Open Circuit Design
   To download this tool, you can refer to this installation guide.
6. KTechLab
   It is an open-source IDE for electronic and PIC microcontroller circuit design. You can easily simulate design with this tool. Check their wiki on GitHub.
7. ngspice
   It is the open-source Spice circuit simulator. It comes with a BSD-free license to use.
8. Oregano
   This circuit simulator is available only for Linux (Ubuntu and ArchLinux). You can not install it on Windows or macOS. Refer to GitHub wiki for downloading and installation.
9. Quite Universal Circuit Simulator (Qucs)
   It is an electronics circuit simulator, available for FREE. Here is GitHub wiki for more detail about the Qucs tool.

You can use these free softwares for your learning purpose.

Proprietary or License Based ECAD Software

Proprietary software is also called as closed-source software. These are the paid softwares.  It is mostly used in the industrial environment.

10. Magic
11. AutoCAD Electrical
12. Allegro
13. OrCAD
14. Autotrax
15. Electra
16. DipTrace
17. CADSTAR
18. EAGLE
19. Easytrax
20. LTspice
21. FreeStyle
22. Multisim
23. Proteus
24. Protel
25. Tango
26. TopoR
27. Pulsonix
28. Upverter
29. TARGET
30. Micro-Cap
31. Ultiboard
32. Xpedition
33. BoardStation
34. DesignSpark
35. Delta Design
36. IntegraStation
37. Altium Designer
38. SolidWorks Electrical

How can you make the Best use of these Electrical CAD tools?

Many of these EDA tools provide a free trial for some days. These paid tools are mostly used by the industries as they provide more features as compared to the free software. If you want to get hands-on learning experience with these paid software, you can use their trial version. There can be some restrictions to use some features in the trial version.

I have covered all different 2D CAD and 3D CAD software which are needed for educational purposes and an industrial environment.

Related Read:

If you are willing to learn other electronic designing Softwares, I have listed some software used in PLC, VLSI and MATLAB programming.

• PLC Programming Software
• MATLAB Software Tools
• VLSI EDA Tools

I hope you find this article useful for ecad software free download. If you have any experience working on any of the ECAD and AutoCAD software, share your experience. I would like to include your review of these tools in this article.

Thanks for Reading!

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