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Revision as of 22:08, 7 November 2018

Overview

LibreCAD is a 2D CAD drawing tool based on the community edition of QCAD. LibreCAD uses the cross-platform framework Qt, which means it works with most operating systems. The user interface is translated in over 30 languages.

LibreCAD is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2 (GPLv2) as published by the Free Software Foundation.


NOTE: This documentation is currently be updated. Some of the documementation linked from here is based on earlier versions of LibreCAD and as a result the descriptions, commands, menus , etc may be different from what appears in the latest release.

Installing and Configuring LibreCAD

Installing LibreCAD on Linux, Windows and Mac OS/X.

LibreCAD can also be installed from the source.

Reference Manual

Tools

Others (to Follow)

Options

View

Widgets

Also File, Edit, Drawing and Help

Defining coordinates / points

  • Keyboard
  • Mouse
  • Absolute and relative

How To Guides

Printing

Others (to Follow)

Application Preferences

Drawing Preferences & Set-up

Using Layers

Using Blocks

Library Browser

Dimensioning

Tutorials

Acknowledgements