QCad

QCad is an application for 2D computer aided drafting. QCad enables users to create technical drawings such as plans for buildings, interiors, mechanical parts or schemas and diagrams.

It uses DXF as its standard file format. While other CAD packages are often complicated to use, QCad tries to be different.

There are two different versions available. QCad Professional (version 2.1.3.2) is commercial software costing EUR 24 (approximately ) for a single user license. There is a 10 minute demonstration version available. There is also a community edition which is available under a freely distributable license. It is a slightly older version, and does not contain all of the functionality included in the commercial release.

Features include:

• Layer and Block support
• 24 line widths, 19 line styles, undo/redo
• Multi-document interface
• Construction and modification of points, lines, arcs, circles, ellipses, splines, polylines, texts, dimensions, hatches, fills, raster images
• Various powerful entity selection tools
• Support for DXF R12 and DXF 200x, BMP, JPEG, PNG
• Part library (over 4,500 CAD parts including mechanical, electrical and processing symbols all in DXF format)
• ECMA Scripting interface (not available in Community edition)
• User interface translations to a large number of languages including Chinese, Dutch, French, German, Greek, Italian, Russian, Turkish and Welsh

QCad also features in our 'Linux Equivalents to Windows Software' section. The category selector below allows you to filter the different types of software included in that separate article.

Last Updated Monday, August 10 2009 @ 04:23 PM EDT