nanoCAD for Windows

Name: nanoCAD
Rating: 3.4 (5 reviews)
Author: Nanosoft

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Editors’ Review

Download.com staffFebruary 26, 2026

NanoCAD offers a fast, lightweight, and reliable 2D design experience with a classic interface. It excels in ease of use and supports industry-standard file formats for seamless collaboration.

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Pros
- User-friendly interface, easy migration for engineers
- Native support for DWG file format
- Full-featured for basic 2D and 3D design tasks
- Includes tools for text, tables, and blocks
- Supports API for application development
Cons
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Full Specifications

GENERAL

Release: November 14, 2013

Latest update: February 26, 2026

Version: 5.0

OPERATING SYSTEMS

Platform: Windows

Operating System

Windows 7
Windows Server
Windows 8
Windows Vista
Windows XP
Windows 10
Windows 2003

Additional Requirements: None

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Total Downloads: 14,296

Downloads Last Week: 7

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User Reviews

3.4/5

5 User Votes

Massive file. Better be worth the wait!
IvaGrateBiggunApril 8, 2014
Pros
Don't know yet. At 24% now. Still downloading the 372MB file. Started the download just (April). Will check back in June and see if it's finished. Zzzzzzzzzzzzzz
Cons
Need to know the OS requirements for 5.0 up front. Or wasted all the time and bandwidth downloading the 372MB file for nothing.
Summary
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Great Free CAD package
CadvisionFebruary 12, 2013
Pros
Free. Easy to install and if you know other packages you will be draing very quickly. This is not a toy product for designing your garden. It is a package for Drafting.
Cons
No Lisp in the current version (is in the Beta for next release)
Summary
Get all your engineers and draftys on NanoCAD save the cost for the designers and modellers that need the other packages
FREE not 30 day trial, No learning curve ACAD users
terryandpaulJanuary 7, 2013
Pros
WONDERFUL. THANK YOU>Almost exactly like Autodesk cad. A few small variances like "inspector" instead of "inquiry" I have now installed V4.0 also. Install took about 50 minutes with verizon 4Glte, and went flawlessly. I figured out how to do a 3D helix drawing using the Russian youtube tutorial. never did figure out 3D previously. Help is right there, OFFLINE. yeah, and actually helpful. I am 100% mobile. If install is difficult, look CLOSELY at 1 vs l, yes, that is ONE vs the small letter l. Who would put those in a serial #? also 0 vs O.
Cons
I have not been able to insert an image file yet, there is an icon for it, but so far no luck.
Summary
I have tried several low cost and free cad softwares, I stop my search at Nanocad because it does almost everthing that I want. I hope a later version might do the insert image thing, I ralize that is not most folks priority, I am retired civil tech and now using cad to design quilts.
OK for basic
poohmaSeptember 25, 2012
Pros
Not majorly complicated, so OK for a fast schematic.
Cons
The CNET downloader might be why the other person had problems. Use the direct download option under the DL button.
Summary
Failed to install
snypedftwSeptember 19, 2012
Pros
none, would not intall
Cons
Would not install properly after 2 tries
Summary
I am just testing CAD programs for my school academy. So if anyone is able to successfully download this and give it a good rating ill consider trying to install it again.

Developer’s Description

By Nanosoft

Perform 2D design in a user-friendly interface easily.

NanoCAD is a full featured, fast, lightweight and reliable 2D design tool. nanoCAD has been designed with ease of use in mind. Migration to nanoCAD will hardly take you more than 10 minutes since nanoCAD delivers:

Classic CAD interface. Any engineer could easily master nanoCAD since everything is in their right places: menu, button icons, panels, command line, and the commands theirselves are easily recognizable. This makes nanoCAD easy to migrate to since enterprise needs no time to retrain its engineers.

Native *.dwg support. The world's most popular file format for technical documentation - *.dwg - is the nanoCAD native file format. Project created using nanoCAD and saved as *.dwg file could be easily opened and edited in any CAD application supporting *.dwg which in turn makes nanoCAD perfect tool for project collaboration and sharing.Ultimate design tool. nanoCAD includes all necessary tools required for basic design and allows creating and editing 2D and 3D vector primitives, texts, tables, blocks, graphical technical documentation display and print settings using either a model or a sheet.Open API and application development. nanoCAD has a traditional CAD application programming interface (API) that allows developing independent nanoCAD based applications and additional automation modules.

nanoCAD for Windows

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