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2023, 17:23 LibreCAD - Free Open Source 2D CAD

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LibreCAD
Open Source 2D-
CAD
LibreCAD is a free Open Source
CAD application for Windows,
Apple and Linux. Support and
documentation are free from our
large, dedicated community of
users, contributors and
developers.

You, too, can also get involved!

Sponsor

About us
How it started
LibreCAD started as a project to build CAM
capabilities into the community version of
QCad for use with a Mechmate CNC router.

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Since QCad CE was built around the outdated 

Qt3 library, it had to be ported to Qt4 before
additional enhancements. This gave rise to
CADuntu.

The project was known as CADuntu only for a

couple of months before the community
decided that the name was inappropriate.
After some discussion within the community
and research on existing names, CADuntu was
renamed to LibreCAD.

Porting the rendering engine to Qt4 proved to

be a large task, so LibreCAD initially still
depended on the Qt3 support library. The Qt4
porting was completed eventually during the
development of 2.0.0 series, thanks to our
master developer Rallaz, and LibreCAD has
become Qt3 free except in the 1.0.0 series.

Meanwhile, for LibreCAD 2.2.0 series, Qt5 is

mandatory.

LibreCAD Featu re s
LibreCAD is a feature-packed and mature 2D-CAD application with some
really great advantages:

  
Completely Open No
and Utterly Source and Language
Free GPLv2 Barriers

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No worries about Developed by an It's available in over 

trials, subscriptions, experienced team 30 languages with
license costs or and supported by an cross-platform
annual fees. awesome support for macOS,
community, Windows, and Linux.
LibreCAD is also free
to hack and copy.

LibreCAD Dow nl oa d

  
macOS Windows Linux
 from Check your
Help is needed for distributions
macOS deployment. SourceForge preferred package
Find latest stable EXE
manager, if LibreCAD
 from installer there. is available there. But
SourceForge the version may be a
Find latest stable
 from GitHub bit older.
Find latest stable EXE
DMG packages there.
installer there.  from GitHub
from GitHub Also special
 Find latest binary
prerelease installer
Find latest stable AppImage packages
for beta testing
DMG packages there. there.
versions.

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Build from source 

This is an option for all platforms.

If we don't have the binary installer you are looking for, you can try to
build LibreCAD from source code.
How this works for each platform can be read in our manual .

Source code could be downloaded  from GitHub as ZIP archive.

Or you can clone or fork our repository, which is recommended if you
plan to contribute.

Join LibreCAD Com m u ni ty

The LibreCAD team is a small group of dedicated people. Lots of things have
been worked out, but plenty of bugs and features are still waiting to be
solved. How can you help? We need all the skills in the community as
coders, writers, testers or translators.

An open source community is a dynamic thing; people come and go as

their private situation drives or stops them contributing. So, it will always
help if you have existing resources we can use, know what other projects do
in specific areas, or, most importantly, do what you do best and have fun
doing it!

You don't have to sign a lifetime contract to contribute. Whether you can
help others in the forum, garden the wiki, or apply one or many patches, our
broad user base will appreciate your work.

Come join our community, and contribute in any way you like.

Develop Document Translate

If you are an Developers usually Help localize
outstanding make bad LibreCAD, we

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developer in C++ or a documentation for currently support 

beginner we can use users, so if you like over 30 languages.
your help. making Our translation server
With a bit of documentation, is over here:
determination, the great! translate.librecad.org/
IRC channel, Zulip There are continuous .
chat and the Libre- GUI changes in You can complete
CAD-dev mailing list, LibreCAD that need new languages, or
we can help you get to be documented. request creating
started and make translations for a new
progress. language in the
All you need is linked forum .
in download section
 and top links 
above.

LibreCAD Fri ends &

Sponsors
As a non-profit, community driven open source project LibreCAD is
dependent on having good relationships with friends and sponsors.

Friends Sponsors
BRL-CAD Weblate
BRL-CAD is a Weblate is an
powerful open source open-source, web-
cross-platform solid based, contiuous
modelling system that localization platform. They
includes interactive geometry generously provide us with a
editing, high-performance ray-

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tracing for rendering and free hosted instance for 

geometric analysis, a system LibreCAD localization.
performance analysis
benchmark suite, geometry
libraries for application
Zulip
developers, and more than 30
years of active development. Zulip is an open-
source modern team
BRL-CAD and LibreCAD
chat app designed to
collaborate in Google
keep both live and
programs. We participate
asynchronous conversations
under the umbrella of BRL-
organized. They generously
CAD in Google Code-in  and
provide us with a free hosted
Google Summer of Code 
instance for LibreCAD
where we mentor school
community conversation.
pupils and students in
participating in open source
projects.
A big thank you also goes to all
the supporters on Open
Collective  and GitHub
Sponsors .
With their donations they
make an important
contribution to maintaining
our community.

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4.0 License (CC BY 4.0).

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