VariCAD is a computer program

Computer program

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 for 3D/2D CAD and mechanical engineering which has been developed since 1988. VariCAD runs on Windows

Microsoft Windows

Microsoft Windows is a series of operating systems produced by Microsoft.Microsoft introduced an operating environment named Windows on November 20, 1985 as an add-on to MS-DOS in response to the growing interest in graphical user interfaces . Microsoft Windows came to dominate the world's personal...

 and Linux

Linux

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. It features many tools for 3D modeling and 2D drafting. VariCAD provides support for parameters and geometric constraints, tools for shells, pipelines, sheet metal unbending and crash tests, assembly support, mechanical part and symbol libraries, calculations, bills of materials

Bill of materials

A bill of materials is a list of the raw materials, sub-assemblies, intermediate assemblies, sub-components, components, parts and the quantities of each needed to manufacture an end product...

, and more.

The program includes a standard part library with screws, nuts, bearings etc. Additionally, it offers many calculation modules for, e.g., springs, beam torsion and of course volume, mass and center of gravity.

VariCAD allows editing of DWG

.dwg

DWG is a binary file format used for storing two and three dimensional design data and metadata. It is the native format for several CAD packages including AutoCAD, IntelliCAD and Caddie. In addition, DWG is supported non-natively by many other CAD applications...

 files without conversion using the Open Design Alliance

Open Design Alliance

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 DWGdirect libraries. VariCAD support the ISO industrial product data exchange format STEP/STP. A list of notable supported file formats is listed in the Comparison of CAD software

Comparison of CAD software

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 article.

VariCAD is available for both Windows

Microsoft Windows

Microsoft Windows is a series of operating systems produced by Microsoft.Microsoft introduced an operating environment named Windows on November 20, 1985 as an add-on to MS-DOS in response to the growing interest in graphical user interfaces . Microsoft Windows came to dominate the world's personal...

 and Linux

Linux

Linux is a Unix-like computer operating system assembled under the model of free and open source software development and distribution. The defining component of any Linux system is the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released October 5, 1991 by Linus Torvalds...

 OS. With the addition of support for Unicode

Unicode

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 user interface now also supports non latin character sets such as those used in the Japanese, Chinese and Russian languages.

VariCAD is available in English, German, Portuguese, Chinese and Japanese languages.

VariCAD Viewer is a free proprietary

Proprietary software

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 computer program

Computer program

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 for viewing of 3D/2D CAD files. It runs on the Windows and Linux

Linux

Linux is a Unix-like computer operating system assembled under the model of free and open source software development and distribution. The defining component of any Linux system is the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released October 5, 1991 by Linus Torvalds...

 operating systems. Notable supported file formats are listed in the Comparison of CAD, CAM and CAE file viewers

Comparison of CAD, CAM and CAE file viewers

Computer aided design , Computer-aided engineering and Computer-aided manufacturing software produces files in a large variety of formats many of which are extremely complex and poorly supported by other applications...

 article.

See also

• Comparison of CAD, CAM and CAE file viewers
  Comparison of CAD, CAM and CAE file viewers
  Computer aided design , Computer-aided engineering and Computer-aided manufacturing software produces files in a large variety of formats many of which are extremely complex and poorly supported by other applications...
  
  
• Comparison of CAD editors for AEC