QCad is a powerful but easy to use 2D CAD program for Linux, Windows, and Mac OS X. It uses DXF as its standard file format. While other CAD packages are often rather complicated to use, QCad tries to stay comfortable, and even an absolute beginner can create professional drawings with a minimum of effort.
| Tags | multimedia Graphics Editors Vector-Based Scientific/Engineering Visualization Graphics Conversion |
|---|---|
| Licenses | GPL |
| Operating Systems | Windows Windows Windows Windows POSIX AIX BSD FreeBSD HP-UX IRIX Linux SCO Solaris Mac OS X |
| Implementation | C++ |
| Translations | Czech Danish Dutch English French German Hungarian Italian Polish Russian Slovak Spanish |
Recent releases


Release Notes: This update features improved DXF compatibility, improved support for ellipses, and some fixes for OS X.


Release Notes: This release adds more scripting support, support for spline entities and a tool for measuring polygonal areas. Several bugfixes have been added.


Release Notes: In this version, the performance for text entities has been improved. Bugfixes have been added for mirroring, selecting ellipse entities, DXF export, and for the Mac OS X GUI. A scripting IDE has been added to the professional version.


Release Notes: Layer locking and support for writing DXF R12 files have been added. The handling of dimension entities, solid fills, and ellipses has been improved.


Release Notes: This release adds a Czech translation and bugfixes for displaying arcs. The font editing tool has been improved.
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