Free / Open Source Software List for Architects

2D CAD
- *QCAD community edition: http://www.qcad.org/qcad_downloads.html
- *PythonCAD - "it's rudimentary", but it's also written in Python, which is a handy scripting language used by a lot of programs, so maybe it can interface well:http://courira.ca/en/2010/04/pythoncad-open-source-2d-cad-software-part-1
- CADEMIA: http://www.cademia.org/frontend/index.php?sub=29

3D CAD/modeling
- Sketchup: http://sketchup.google.com/   الاسكتش اب
- *Blender3D: http://www.blender.org/  بليندر
- *BRL-CAD: http://brlcad.org/

جوجل تصفح الخرائط
- Google Earth: http://earth.google.com/

BIM
- BIM for Rhino - : http://www.rhinobim.com/
- Green Building Markup Language -

not really BIM, but a helpful open file format that could be used as the basis of some kind of BIM interface with an open-source (or otherwise) modeling software: http://www.gbxml.org/



Rendering software   برامج الريندر
- *PoVRay: http://www.povray.org/
- *YAFray: http://www.yafaray.org/
- Kerkythea: http://www.kerkythea.net/joomla/

Raster graphics
- *GIMP: http://www.gimp.org/
- *GIMPshop - :http://www.gimpshop.com/

Vector graphics
- *Inkscape: http://www.inkscape.org/

Layouts
- *Scribus: http://www.scribus.net/canvas/Scribus

Web design  تصميم مواقع انترنت
- Kompozer: http://www.kompozer.net/

Project management software:   برامج اداره المشاريع
- *OpenProj: http://openproj.org/openproj
- *Web2Project: http://web2project.net/
- *Taskjuggler: http://www.taskjuggler.org/
- *Onepoint: http://sourceforge.net/projects/opproject/


General office software
- *OpenOffice: http://www.openoffice.org/
- *Phoenix (e-mail, if you don't want to rely on 'the cloud'): http://phxmail.sourceforge.net/