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General discussion about BabaCAD / Re: Babacad still alive?

« Last post by Ponytail on December 13, 2025, 05:33:44 pm »

No, current trial version is 30-days trial as before, but in the next year I will try to prepare and release a special version of BabaCAD Home that will be free for students and retirees.

That would be nice! I am "old and retired"! 
Many thanks in advance.

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General discussion about BabaCAD / Re: Babacad still alive?

« Last post by babadmin on December 13, 2025, 03:41:20 am »

No, current trial version is 30-days trial as before, but in the next year I will try to prepare and release a special version of BabaCAD Home that will be free for students and retirees.

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General discussion about BabaCAD / Re: Babacad still alive?

« Last post by Ponytail on December 13, 2025, 02:06:19 am »

Thanks Babadmin,

Does your answer mean the 30-day trial  is free for use for longer/lifetime?

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General discussion about BabaCAD / Re: Babacad still alive?

« Last post by babadmin on October 26, 2025, 06:21:32 pm »

Yes, it's alive, but I would recommend that you continue to use a free version of BabaCAD, or switch to some other CAD (maybe 2500 USD annual subscription for AutoCAD). And please don't buy BabaCAD 2020, because 69 USD is a lot of money for the software like this (I must be sarcastic, because I spent more than 10,000 hours in the development of BabaCAD software, and I typed over 500,000 lines of C++ code).

For all others, who read this: Support is still available for all BabaCAD software, but now, focus is more on development of BabaCAD Robotics desktop version and BabaCAD Robotics Web (free web version of robotic arm simulation and offline programming tool).

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General discussion about BabaCAD / Babacad still alive?

« Last post by Ponytail on July 29, 2025, 12:35:14 am »

After using the old BabaCad 2017, free version, for some time as replacement for AutoCad I think about buying the latest version 2020.
But when looking at the comments and messages I get the impression the program is not developed anymore, or supported, for a long time.

Is BabCad still alive?

I don't want to waste my money...

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General discussion about BabaCAD / Re: Cannot import file to another programme

« Last post by babadmin on March 16, 2024, 11:19:09 pm »

I recommend that you download the latest version and try it. BabaCAD 2020 is 64-bit, it can import a newer dwg drawings and it's optimized to work very fast with complex drawings (open and modify/update drawings with millions of CAD entities). It's free to try and test it.

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General discussion about BabaCAD / Re: Cannot import file to another programme

« Last post by andrea77 on March 16, 2024, 12:48:55 am »

I had some problems when try to open some dwg drawing. If I update the software to a newer version, can I expect improvements in opening dwg files? I used the old 32-bit version, but later I switched to another software (draftsight). However, neither software worked well with large projects (it either crashes or is too slow).

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General discussion about BabaCAD / Re: BabaCAD 2019 and 2020 in 2024?

« Last post by babadmin on January 28, 2024, 02:34:33 am »

There is a trial version (30 days) so you can try and see if the program is good for you. Also, there are many video tutorials on YouTube (just search for BabaCAD tutorial) so you will find that you can do everything with BabaCAD just like you can do with AutoCAD LT, even faster. Registered users can download patches/updates (mostly bug fixes) of the latest version when they are available (updates are not often if the latest release is stable). When the right moment comes, a new version (BabaCAD 2024 or 2025) will be released, with some new features and enhancements.

One more thing, maybe the crucial, for those who buy CAD software for the first time in their life: please search for the price of popular CAD software on the market, and you will find there is 3-year subscription of LT (light version of that popular CAD, which doesn't even include LISP scripting) that costs US$ 1,470 compared to BabaCAD Home life-time license which costs US$ 99. That's almost 15 times lower price for an almost identical product.

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General discussion about BabaCAD / Re: End User License Agreement (EULA) and Related Details?

« Last post by babadmin on January 28, 2024, 01:54:09 am »

Everything that you are asking can be found on BabaCAD website, but it's no problem to give answers to your questions:

a. EULA is inside of the installation of the program, and also can be read after installing the trial version.
b. User can install the program on just one computer and use it unlimited time. To use on another computer at a same time, it needs a new license. If in meantime user decides to use the license on another computer,  it can ask for the license transfer (max. three times). There is possibility for company to buy the network license where the price depends on a number of concurrent users.
c. User's computer must not be connected to the internet to use BabaCAD. It can be used offline for the life. For the online registration it requires an internet connection (just once, to register the license), but the registration of the license can be done by e-mail too.

BabaCAD Home (2D) can't be upgraded to other products (Enterprise 3D, Robotics).

Regards

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General discussion about BabaCAD / BabaCAD 2019 and 2020 in 2024?

« Last post by FNitney on January 27, 2024, 11:54:15 pm »

Greetings,

As a prospective purchaser, what should I intuit about the dates of BabaCAD's general purpose CAD programs? Does the fact that their dates are four of five years old mean that they are more refined and less bloated (software keeps getting worse and worse), or should I be concerned?

Thanks in advance.