Compare the Top CAD Software in Asia as of December 2025

What is CAD Software in Asia?

Computer-Aided Design (CAD) software is software used by engineers, architects, and designers to create precise 2D and 3D models. It enables users to design, visualize, and simulate their projects with high accuracy, facilitating efficient prototyping and problem-solving. CAD software supports a variety of industries, including manufacturing, construction, and product design, by offering features like parametric modeling, rendering, and automated drafting. Its intuitive interfaces and integration with other engineering tools make it a cornerstone of modern design workflows. By streamlining the design process, CAD software helps reduce development time, improve collaboration, and bring innovative ideas to life. Compare and read user reviews of the best CAD software in Asia currently available using the table below. This list is updated regularly.

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    Altium Develop
    Altium Develop is a multidisciplinary product creation platform that breaks down silos and empowers teams to design collaboratively without limits. Built on Altium Designer and Altium 365, it unifies electrical, mechanical, software, sourcing, and manufacturing teams in a shared environment. Every comment, change, and decision is captured in real time, giving collaborators visibility without the need for constant check-ins. The platform enhances project outcomes by aligning requirements, supply chain data, and design context in one ecosystem. Manufacturing engineers and suppliers can provide feedback early, avoiding costly rework and delays. By transforming collaboration into true co-creation, Altium Develop helps organizations innovate faster, smarter, and with greater alignment across disciplines.
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    Starting Price: $995/year/author
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    CAD6industrie

    CAD6industrie

    Malz++Kassner GmbH

    CAD6industrie is the comprehensive 2D/3D CAD/CAM solution for industrial use. In addition to to the full range of functions of CAD6studio, including SMART2D Technology, it also contains a CAM plug-in and a universal, script-based post-processor for the flexible and efficient generation of CNC data for machine controllers. The CAM plug-in supports the following machining procedures: milling, drilling, turning, water jet cutting, laser cutting, as well as cutting, plotting, and positioning. Commands like milling cutter compensation, pocket milling, milling order control, milling time calculation and a graphical 3D preview let you create drawings that are directly milled later. Extensive tool and machine settings, plus output of custom commands (such as cycles or sub-programs) by means of symbols, give you the complete control over what the post-processors finally output to the machine. All programs of the CAD6 series are 100% data-compatible.
    Starting Price: 74.17 EUR per month
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    4MCAD
    4MCAD is a 2D drafting and 3D modelling CAD software. It is a reliable and low-cost AutoCAD like software platform. More specifically, it is powered by IntelliCAD and ODA, providing 2D/3D CAD Complete Design, Raster Image support, Rendering, BIM/IFC import, AEC objects modelling, VBA support, PDF 2 DWG conversion, rich block libraries and a lot of other advanced key features.
    Starting Price: $60 per user
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    WSCAD

    WSCAD

    WSCAD

    At WSCAD, we have been developing electrical CAD solutions for over 30 years. Customers include small to medium-sized companies, international corporations, and engineering service providers in the machine-building, panel manufacturing, and building automation industries. WSCAD software is used by over 40,000 electrical engineers as their electrical CAD solution. WSCAD ELECTRIX – our most powerful electrical CAD – is our brand-new offering. No matter if you are designing piping & instrumentation diagrams, fluid power or electrical schematics, cabinet engineering, building automation or electrical installation – WSCAD is the right tool for you. The new ELECTRIX comes with a completely new design engine (editor) and embedded compatibility to standard formats like DXF/DWG and uses modern technologies such as augmented reality, multi-threading and automation.
    Starting Price: $84/month
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    nanoCAD

    nanoCAD

    Nanosoft

    nanoCAD is a modern computer-aided design (CAD) platform that provides designers with powerful capabilities in 2D drafting and 3D modeling. nanoCAD can be used on its own as a cost-effective DWG-editor, or customized with essential modules: Construction, Mechanica, Raster, Topoplan and 3D Solid Modeling. 2D drawings and 3D solid models with 2D and 3D parametric constraints, and dynamic UCS for effortless sketching on 3D faces. Documentation drawings link to 3D models. Fully DWG compatible.
    Starting Price: $180.00/year/user
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    ARCHLine.XP
    We deliver design software solutions for architects, interior designers and furniture makers. ARCHLine.XP LT - Solid 3D CAD/BIM product at affordable price ARCHLine.XP Professional - Large-scale 3D BIM software for architecture ARCHLine.XP Live - Easy-to-use archviz animation software
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    MicroStation

    MicroStation

    Bentley Systems

    MicroStation by Bentley Systems is the trusted computer-aided design (CAD) software built specifically for infrastructure design. It enables architects, engineers, and designers to create precise 2D and 3D drawings that bring complex projects to life—from bridges and highways to utilities and smart cities. With powerful tools for design, documentation, and visualization, MicroStation helps professionals deliver projects faster, more accurately, and with greater confidence. The software natively supports DGN, DWG, and point-cloud data, eliminating file conversion hassles and improving collaboration across teams. Its robust environment connects applications, data, and users to ensure seamless project delivery at any scale. MicroStation is the foundation of modern infrastructure design—reliable, interoperable, and built for professionals who build the world.
    Starting Price: $250 per month
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    GstarCAD

    GstarCAD

    Gstarsoft Co., Ltd.

    GstarCAD is alternative CAD software with high compatibility, stability, performance, and useful features to improve efficiency and facilitate the drawing process of designers, draftsmen and other CAD users.
    Starting Price: $399.00/one-time
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    GeoHECRAS

    GeoHECRAS

    CivilGEO, Inc.

    GeoHECRAS is a river modeling software used to compute water surface profiles for steady and unsteady flow models, bridge and culvert roadway crossings, FEMA floodplain encroachments, stream restorations, inline reservoir structures, off-channel storage areas, and much more. GeoHECRAS offers: • Quickly Build 1D & 2D HEC-RAS Models • Automatic Assignment of Land Cover as Manning’s Roughness • Digital Terrain Cross Section Cutting • Automated Bridge & Culvert Sizing and Designing • Automated FEMA Floodplain Encroachments • LiDAR Elevation Terrain Processing • Automated Model Calibration • AutoCAD, MicroStation & ESRI ArcGIS Compatible • 100% Compatible with US Army Corps of Engineers HEC-RAS GeoHECRAS provides an easy-to-use, single graphical platform to rapidly create stunning HEC-RAS models and 3D visualizations from a variety of different data sources like AutoCAD, MicroStation, ArcGIS, Google Maps, and more.
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    progeCAD

    progeCAD

    progeSOFT

    progeCAD is an AutoCAD® compatible 2D/3D CAD application that works with AutoCAD® DWG files from AutoCAD® 2.5 through AutoCAD® 2021 and imports Autodesk Revit® and IFC files! The best solution for AEC, MCAD and all generic CAD usages. progeCAD sells with perpetual licensing and offers more CAD functions than AutoCAD® LT at a fraction of the cost of AutoCAD®, ArchiCAD® or Microstation®. DWG is progeCAD's native file format. It is the same AutoCAD’s file format, so when you open an existing DWG file with progeCAD, there's no file conversion and no data loss. We provide industry standard compatibility with AutoCAD®, that means you can get to work immediately using DWG files, commands, fonts, blocks, hatches and Linetypes. Furthermore, progeCAD imports Autodesk Revit® and IFC BIM objects.
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    CADTALK

    CADTALK

    CADTALK Software

    CAD/PDM/PLM engineering bill of material (eBOM) transformation to ERP manufacturing bill of material (mBOM), routing, items, and more. Reduce the engineering to manufacturing hand-off by 80% converting 20 bills and 40 items in less than 30 seconds. Improve costing, material planning, and scheduling.
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    Electra Cloud

    Electra Cloud

    Radica Software

    Electra® Cloud offers impressive benefits that more than save time or eliminate tedious work, it leaves the engineer free to focus on the important parts of a design, the control scheme, operations and safety of the entire machine. For many companies, creating and managing technical drawings efficiently are often critical to become competitive with direct impacts on a company's bottom line. Surprisingly, many companies are still using inefficient and costly methods, resulting in higher cost, lower productivity and technical drawings that are only accessible to a few people in an organization. Cut the amount of time a electrical engineer spends on generating electrical designs, and they could spend more time working with customers. The fact is, technical drawing is an invaluable resource and should be accessible to everyone in an organization.
    Starting Price: $99.00/month
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    Envision evCreator
    Envision evCreator is a powerful graphics application* combining 2D drawing and image editing with 3D model handling for creating technical illustrations, product visualizations, animations, charts, text and more. The evCreator handles the preparation of every visual asset you need to add to your instructional content - as well as the creation of end-to-end documents. Envision evCreator gives technical creatives the autonomy to work with 2D graphics, images and 3D CAD models in a single, intuitive application. No more switching between different apps for different uses, and no more delays caused by reliance on engineering teams for 3D model screenshots. 2D drawing, 3D CAD, and vector graphics in a single, easy to use application: - Image editing - 3D CAD visualization - Flow charts and process diagrams - Animation with text to speech - Smart annotation & dimension tools - Charts, tables, symbols - Export to JPG, PNG, PDF, MP4, and more
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    ESSDi CAD

    ESSDi CAD

    ESSDi Infotech Corporation

    ESSDi CAD/CAM is predominantly used in Garment and Textile, Made-ups, and Leather manufacturing. It also shares its potential tools in the Shipping, Aeronautics, Automobile, and Furniture industries. First Apparel CAD Developer in South Asian Continent. ESSDi IC innovates newer technology to various industries to ease their day-to-day affairs to have a clear and perfect focus on their business to increase profit margin by well large. ESSDi IC's technology is all cost-effective at carrier no further expenditure. Mostly, it will be a life investment or form an asset. Thiru.L.B.Thiyagarajan, the founder of ESSDi Infotech Corporation had crossed all impediments with his innovative and creative knowledge towards this project. To get his passion come through he was carrying his intellectual Child, ESSDi CAD with limited resources generated through job work and selling the CAD system, to sustain in market for the past two decades.
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    CypNest

    CypNest

    Friendess

    CypNest is a nesting software designed for CypCut/HypCut sheet laser cutting system. It integrates advanced functions of drawing modification, quick nesting, toolpath generation, analysis report and more to meet your production needs.
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    IronCAD

    IronCAD

    IronCAD

    IronCAD significantly reduces manufacturing barriers and increases engineering productivity with intuitive 3D and 2D solutions for rapid design and seamless collaboration enterprise-wide. Create design iterations, proposals, and production drawings in less time and simply design faster than any other CAD system available today. What makes us different? IronCAD lets you design intuitively in the way you interact in the world, in 3D. With this easier and faster design approach over traditional CAD software, it’s a fundamentally better way to design. IronCAD gives you the speed to invent the future, with time left to watch it unfold. Skip repetitive steps so you can get to market faster, ahead of your competitors, and with far more return on your investment.
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    AutoScan

    AutoScan

    Newton Software

    Autoscan software gives Bill of Quantities from ACAD drawings in LBD measurement sheets and abstract formats. It gives BOQ for concrete quantities for footing, column beam slab with shuttering and all the major finishing items like flooring, skirting, dado, paint, plaster, waterproofing, masonry and many more. It is a very user-friendly product generates quantities within minutes. Ideal for giving quick estimates. Saves manual errors and it is 50 times faster and reliable and accurate than the manual process. It is independent of human expertise and dependence.
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    AVEVA Asset Information Management
    Deliver projects on time and improve safety and operational performance with rapid, intuitive access to the Digital Twin. Across all industries, the fabrication, maintenance, and operation of complex assets requires accurate information. It is common, however, to see information stored in a variety of different formats in unconnected repositories, often with teams dispersed across various global locations. This results in data silos and a severe lack of transparency, efficiency, and trust within organizations. AVEVA Asset Information Management turns data from multiple information sources and systems into trusted actionable insights, identifying and cross-referencing all the relationships between equipment, documents, drawings, and various data formats. It accelerates information discovery and links distributed teams to a common data asset via one unique application, deployed in the cloud, on-premise, or both with a hybrid approach.
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    IMOLD

    IMOLD

    Manusoft Technologies

    With a decade of experience in Computer-Aided Mold Design, IMOLD for SOLIDWORKS stands out today as a leading software that delivers optimal solutions to the growing and complex needs of mold designers worldwide. Quite rightly, not many know mold design as IMOLD does. Manusoft Technologies places great importance in excellent services to its clientele. Its highly trained support team ensures clients’ concerns and feedback are given due support. By keeping the pulse of its clients’ needs and consistently improving the quality of products and support services, Manusoft Technologies is positioned to lead the industry to the next level-
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    AutoDCR

    AutoDCR

    SoftTech Engineers

    AutoDCR® is an innovative online building plan scrutiny and approval system for construction permits. It reads the CAD drawings and check them for compliance with the relevant regulations to facilitate approval by competent authorities. It is being used in 500+ local government bodies in India. Seamlessly integrated to online approval workflow to track the proposals with associated documents verification and site visits, it can also be accessed through mobile devices. Reads CAD drawings and produces scrutiny reports in a few minutes. Maps all development control rules of the Authority to the drawing entities. Automates the cumbersome manual process of checking the development regulations. Offers single window for acquiring building permits, NOCs and clearances from multiple agencies. Architects submit the plan online along with the application form to all relevant departments through a single-window system.
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    Structural Engineering Library
    Structural and civil engineers are under tremendous pressure these days. You're expected to do more with less - and do it faster - all while creating the same safe, budget-friendly, code-compliant designs you've always created. So much pressure! Tighter budgets, shorter timelines, and ever-changing code requirements. Then clients ask for design changes at the same price! Structural Engineers are highly skilled, our work is exacting and we are liable for our mistakes. Competitive pressure and heavier workloads take their toll on highly technical, detailed work. Where can I get relief? Work more? Hire help? Take on fewer projects? You are asking yourself "How do I increase my high quality engineering designs without overworking my team or losing profits by excess hiring?" The Structural Engineering Library (SEL). The industry's most complete, well proven, widely used integrated system for creating daily structural engineering calculations.
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    CADopia

    CADopia

    CADopia

    CADopia is a powerful Computer-Aided-Design software for engineers, architects, designers and drafters — virtually anyone who creates, edits, or views professional drawings. CADopia 19 is available in 12 languages – Chinese, Czech, English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, and Spanish. CADopia Professional Services can help you maximize the returns on your investment in CAD technology. CADopia provides upfront consulting services, custom application development, staff training,technical support, and project outsourcing solutions. Productivity enhancing drafting tools such as custom construction plane, entity snaps, grids, entity and polar tracking allowsyou to complete your drawings precisely and efficiently.
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    CADISON

    CADISON

    CADISON

    CADISON Piping and instrumentation design software - P&ID Designer is a comprehensive solution for creation of PFD/P&ID, Instrumentation (measurements, hook-up’s, I/O‘s), specifications and calculations (media, pipe specification, pump sizing, pipe sizing, etc.), and reports generation. It is a rule-based P&ID engineering solution that effectively supports an engineer to accurately design a plant as per engineering standards (DIN, EN ISO 10628, ANSI, etc.) and also provides flexibility to configure the system as per company standards. This P&ID software allows project planning processes and diagrams to merge seamlessly in such a way that all project-related data is dynamically available to the users. This in turn allows integration of all preliminary project planning done earlier with basic and detail engineering, and then merged with two-dimensional layout planning.
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    iCADMac

    iCADMac

    iCADMac USA

    A wide range of tools for 2D drawing and 3D modelling functionality, a familiar interface and compatibility with the most widespread design format in the world. iCADMac is a complete DWG-native CAD with a wide range of tools for 2D drawing and 3D modelling, offering a familiar interface and full compatibility with the most widespread design format in the world. Trims multiple, adjacent entities by dragging the pointer across each entity. Extends or trims two entities where they intersect at a virtual corner. PowerTrim works also on Hatches and Gradients. iCADMac is intuitive to users familiar with AutoCAD® and allows them to start working with their DWG drawings without any file conversion or training.
    Starting Price: $794 one-time payment
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    Dv TDM

    Dv TDM

    Practical Programs

    Total Document Management (Dv TDM) is a robust globally recognized solution for managing everything from day-to-day business documents to technical documents and drawings throughout their entire lifecycle. Dv TDM Dv TDM supports Microsoft Office documents (i.e., Word, Excel, Outlook) along with engineering documents/drawings such as AutoCAD, Microstation, PDF, and many more. Share documents and drawings on the web, control versions, view and markup documents without the need for the native file application and more. It is designed with an extensive set of configurable features that serve to address a wide spectrum of lifecycle business processes for almost any type of electronic file. Dv TDM provides document viewing capabilities for over 200 common file formats without the need for the native application to be installed on the accessing user's machine. Dv TDM is packed with Workflow, Knowledge Group, Transmittals modules and much more to make managing documents and drawing files easy.
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    CAESES

    CAESES

    FRIENDSHIP SYSTEMS AG

    CAESES® foundation is a powerful and flexible parametric 3D modeler. The main purpose: Robust variable geometry with fewer parameters. Create a clean and robust parametric geometry that is ideal for automated meshing and analysis. Integrate, launch and control your simulation runs. Let it be your flexible GUI for process automation incl. 3D post-processing. CAESES® offers integrated methods for automated design explorations and shape optimization. Optimize imported geometries by using the shape deformation and morphing techniques of CAESES. CAESES® is a command-driven platform that can be fully scripted and customized. Includes batch mode capabilities. Accelerate your shape optimization process by mapping the results of an adjoint flow analysis to the geometry parameters. Get your flexible CAESES model in just a few days! Customized to your needs and easy to use. No CAESES expertise required.
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    CADWorx

    CADWorx

    Hexagon PPM

    CADWorx® Design Review allows the review and publishing of CADWorx models by designers, managers, owners and other stakeholders. Discover how you can improve collaboration by utilizing tools for markups, design comments and redlining. By using CADWorx Design Review, users are able to create realistic visualizations and access the intelligent information. Whether it is one model file or multiple model files, the intuitive interface and its performance-based makes manipulating and moving around even the largest models quick and smooth. Collaborate and review designs more quickly and intuitively with CADWorx Design Review with tools for markups, design comments and redlining. There is no need to manually load the separate model files that make up a design. If files are externally referenced, these are automatically included in the review model. Powerful visualization tools provide settings for color, transparency, model shadows, layers, specs, service and line numbers.
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