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cadaddy
Free AutoCAD-style CAD for Windows, Mac and Linux that opens and saves DWG and DXF. Source-available (FSL-1.1). Written in Rust; MCP for AI agents.
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What's in it
- Data offered docs-verified
- DWG open and save · DXF open and save · plot to PDF · PDF to DWG conversion
- Coverage llm-inferred
- Global
- Formats docs-verified
- DWG · DXF · PDF · MCP stdio
- Access docs-verified
- Free to use, including commercial work, with no trial, subscription, account or ads. Source-available under FSL-1.1, becoming Apache-2.0 after two years. Local install.
Useful for
- Use cases llm-inferred
- Viewing and marking up client-supplied DWG/DXF site plans without an AutoCAD licence · Converting PDF survey or drainage drawings to editable DWG · Batch or headless conversion of DWG drawings to PDF for issue · Agent-driven creation of simple 2D layouts and dimensions via the MCP server
- Audience llm-inferred
- civils engineers · drainage engineers · BIM/CAD technicians · planners · AI agent developers
Limitations
- Constraints llm-inferred
- Windows installer and macOS app are not code-signed or notarised yet, so OS security warnings appear · Source-available FSL-1.1 licence, not OSI open source; competing products or services are restricted · Described as 2D CAD and drafting; no 3D modelling features are documented beyond Walk mode · Winget listing is under review by Microsoft · No UK-specific content, standards or symbol libraries are stated in the docs
Example tool calls docs-verified
Open a DWG drawing in CADaddy
{
"tool": "open",
"arguments": {
"path": "plan.dwg"
}
}- Licence
- Other
- Authentication
- Unknown — review source docs
- GitHub stars
- 1
- Last commit
- 18/10/2026
- Last successful page check
- 14/10/2026
- Page health
- healthy
- Package
- Not recorded
- Verification
- Not independently verified
Auto-extracted, unverified fields: tools, auth. Check upstream documentation.
Provenance & evidence
Daily discovery 2026-10-18: GitHub search; verified via GitHub API. Tools/install/auth auto-extracted from README.
Metadata observed 14/10/2026 · daily-2026-10-18 (github-search)
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