The Only 5 Free CAD Block Sites You’ll Ever Need from buzai232's blog

The Only 5 Free CAD Block Sites You’ll Ever Need

When it comes to architectural drawing, there are a number of second rate and badly formatted CAD, AutoCAD and DWG block sites out there, and this is particularly true when is comes to finding the free CAD block sites that are available.To get more news about cad blocks download, you can visit shine news official website.

Having used many of the top ranked sites ourselves for bathroom, furniture, tree, kitchen, symbols, chairs and people CAD blocks (to name a few!). We have sifted through and scrutinized the top 20 results, and can conclude that there are really just 5 worth considering.
But as with most things that are free, there is of course often a sacrifice to be made in either quality or the quantity available, which is why we have produced our own CAD block library within the below template kit.

What is a CAD block?
Firstly through and for those that do not know, a CAD or AutoCAD block can be defined as a group of 2D or 3D lines and/or elements that are grouped together to form an object in a DWG file format.
In the case of this article and in fact for their general use within architecture, they are most commonly used to populate 2D CAD drawings, and can be anything from a tree, person, item of furniture, electrical symbol …anything!

That said however, with the increasing amount of architects and architectural practices now using BIM, and there are many libraries available that also provide 3D CAD blocks to suit these related programs such as Revit, Vectorworks and ArchiCAD.

Why are they used?
CAD blocks are ultimately a form of representation that add depth and meaning to 2D and 3D drawings, by providing the drawings with scale, context and legibility, through the use of furniture, vegetation and people.

They can also be used to provide the drawing with additional information, such as a lighting or electrical layout.
What does CAD and AutoCAD mean?
The term CAD is an abbreviation of Computer Aided Design, and where you may see “auto” placed in front of it (making AutoCAD); this is simply in relation to Autodesk’s CAD program “AutoCAD”, which also happens to be the industry standard for 2D drawing and thus the most popular.

Before writing this article, we had set out to provide a top 10 list of the best and most relevant free CAD block libraries available. However there just aren’t 10 CAD block sites that are worth mentioning.

Too many have clumsy and out of date interfaces and fail to provide either a preview of the CAD file, a usable block, or a free DWG file altogether.For us this one sat at the top of the Google rankings, and whilst its interface is very dated, it does provide a solid set of basic 2D CAD bathroom, furniture, tree, kitchen, chairs and people blocks, that both architects and students would require …for free

It’s a no thrills website and there is not a huge range (not as much as the paid and free sites) but there’s more than enough to get you by, as long as you are not after anything too specialist.

The blocks are broken down into categories for easy navigation, and in terms of compatibility, you will need AutoCAD 2004 or higher, which for most should not be problem.