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QCAD is the application you ought to utilize in case you’re hoping to create specialized drawings be it for structures, mechanical parts or even schematics and outlines. Since it is open source, QCAD’s center is more towards particularity, extensibility and transportability. LibreCAD is a brilliant 2D-CAD modeling platform.
Developer(s) | RibbonSoft |
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Stable release | 3.22 / 1 March 2019; 3 months ago |
Repository | |
Written in | C++, (Qt), ECMAScript |
Operating system | Linux, macOS, Unix-like, Windows |
Type | CAD software |
License | GPLv3 and some proprietary license plugins[1] |
Website | qcad.org |
QCAD is a free computer-aided design (CAD) software application for 2D design and drafting. It is available for Linux, ApplemacOS, Unix and Microsoft Windows. The QCAD GUI is based on the Qt framework.
QCAD is released under the GNU General Public License.[2] Precompiled packages are available for 32-bit and 64-bit GNU/Linux platforms, Microsoft Windows OS and macOS.
QCAD is developed by RibbonSoft. Development on QCAD began in October 1999, starting with code from CAM Expert. QCAD 2, designed to 'make QCAD more productive, more user friendly, more flexible and increase its compatibility with other products' began development in May 2002. QCAD 3 was first released in August 2011 with an ECMAScript (JavaScript) interface as major addition.
Some of the interface and concepts behind QCAD are similar to those of AutoCAD.
QCAD uses the AutoCAD DXF file format internally and to save and import files. AutoCAD DWG support is available as a commercial plugin.
Starting from version 3.7 QCAD is distributed as Professional Trial that work for a limited time, or as Community Edition as source code only, so users need to self compile or remove the QCAD Professional add-on running in trial mode[3].
Multiplatform support[edit]
QCAD operates on Linux, macOS [10.7 (Lion) or later], UNIX (FreeBSD, NetBSD), Solaris for x86 and SPARC, and Windows [8, 7, Vista, XP, 2000]. This is of importance for collaboration across a diverse computing environment.
See also[edit]
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- LibreCAD, a fork of QCAD 2.0 ported to Qt4
References[edit]
- ^Qcad - license
- ^QCAD 3.1 released as open source, RibbonSoft.
- ^Mustun, Andrew. 'QCAD Downloads'. QCAD. Retrieved 7 April 2019.
External links[edit]
- qcad on GitHub
- QCAD Community Forums (Note: this is for all that have been at http://www.ribbonsoft.com/forum which doesn't exist anymore)
- KAD (KDE aided design) is a version of QCAD for the KDE Linux Desktop. See KAD - KDE aided design
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LibreCAD is a 2D CAD drawing toolbased on the community edition of QCAD.
LibreCAD uses the cross-platform framework Qt,which means it works with most operating systems.
The user interface is translated in over 30 languages. http://translate.librecad.org
LibreCAD uses the cross-platform framework Qt,which means it works with most operating systems.
The user interface is translated in over 30 languages. http://translate.librecad.org
LibreCAD is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2 (GPLv2)
as published by the Free Software Foundation.
Please read the LICENSE file for additional information.
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2 (GPLv2)
as published by the Free Software Foundation.
Please read the LICENSE file for additional information.
The master branch represents the latest pre-release code,
and now requires Qt 5.2.1 or newer.
The 2.1 branch will be the last to support Qt4.
The 2.0 branch will be the last to support the QCAD toolbar.
and now requires Qt 5.2.1 or newer.
The 2.1 branch will be the last to support Qt4.
The 2.0 branch will be the last to support the QCAD toolbar.
libdxfrw is an associated project that allows LibreCAD to read DWG files.
Requests and Bug reports
Questions or Comments
- IRC: #librecad at freenode.net
Wiki
Building
Requirements:
- Qt 5.2.1+ (MinGW version on Windows)
More information: Build from source
Contributing
There is a resources repository for people that want to indirectly
contribute to the project by supplying icons, stylesheets, documentation, templates...
contribute to the project by supplying icons, stylesheets, documentation, templates...
Associated downloads: https://sourceforge.net/projects/librecad/files/Resources/