QCAD 3.6.4 Released, Install in Linux Ubuntu/Mint And Debian

QCAD 3.6.4 Released, Install in Linux Ubuntu/Mint And Debian

QCAD is a free, open source application for computer aided drafting (CAD) in two dimensions (2D). With QCAD you can create technical drawings such as plans for buildings, interiors, mechanical parts or schematics and diagrams. QCAD works on Windows, Mac OS X and Linux. The source code of QCAD is released under the GPL version 3 (GPLv3), a popular Open Source license.

Main Features QCAD 3.6.4

Layers
Blocks (grouping)
35 CAD fonts included
Support for TrueType fonts
Various Metrical and Imperial units
DXF and DWG input and output
Printing to scale
Printing on multiple pages
Over 40 construction tools
Over 20 modification tools
Construction and modification of points, lines, arcs, circles, ellipses, splines, polylines, texts, dimensions, hatches, fills, raster images
Various powerful entity selection tools
Object snaps
Measuring tools
Part library with over 4800 CAD parts
Very complete and extremely powerful ECMAScript scripting interface

The latest updates of QCAD also includes support for importing files Design Web Format (DWF) from Autocad (still under development), support for splines of degree 1 and the new option to keep the basic specifications of a design even if this is changed, also note the introduction of support for Teigha 4.0 and new features / commands from the terminal.

I also remember that QCAD is available in two versions: professional community and the latter includes more features to the software that we can try for 15 days post-installation then will automatically switch to the free version / community.

install QCAD
QCAD 3.6.4 is available for Linux, Microsoft Windows and Apple Mac from this page.

For Linux, we will have to first remove any previous versions, then we’re going to download the installar .run, when the download is move the file .run in the home and start the terminal and type: