LibreCAD

LibreCAD, a 2D CAD drawing tool, has been updated to version 2.1.2 with more features than the version a year ago. LibreCAD, formerly known as CADuntu, works on Mac OSX, Windows and Linux versions and is built on QCad Community Edition.

Compared with QCad Community Edition, the changes in LibreCAD are: the latest Qt4-based user interface (QCad Community Edition uses QT3), plug-in system, automatic saving and better DXF file reading. Additionally, QCad Community Edition is officially only available for Linux (QCad itself is cross-platform, but not free), while LibreCAD is cross-platform and free.

It not only supports cross-platform operating systems such as Windows, Linux, and Mac, but also provides graphics extensions in formats such as DXF, JWW, and DWG. It can export graphics to SVG, TIF, BMP, XBM, XPM, PPM, JPG, and PNG. Pictures and most basic functions of 2D drawing are all available. The good thing is that there is also a free installation version of LibreCAD, which is really good.

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At this version, LibreCAD is stable but still needs improvements, so don't expect comparisons with professional applications such as AutoCAD. Also, LibreCAD doesn't take out documentation - it originally included documentation from QCad, but it has been removed because it was not released under the GPL.

Additionally, the application does not support DWG files. There is some work on this, but it has not yet been implemented because of some licensing issues with LibreDWG.

LibreCADFunction introduction

​System new capture

​Isometric grid

​trisecting an angle

​Drawing engraved circles and ellipses

​Draw the common tangent of two ovals

​Better international support, including Chinese, Japanese and Korean fonts

​Experimental offset support

​better performance

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​Be careful to select Chinese when starting for the first time

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