Orientationįor you to easily learn LibreCAD, it is important to first understand what the various parts of its interface are used for. One of its unique features/characteristics is that it has a very highly customizable interface that allows users to customize toolbars and menus. It is also a popular DWG and DXF file format viewer and users can also use it to save drawing in DXF, and SVG, among other formats. Isometric projections are at times referred to as 2.5D drawings. The orthogonal projection is for creating 2D drawings while isometric projection allows users to represent their 3D models in 2D. LibreCAD is used for producing orthogonal and isometric projections.

Operating Systems: Windows, macOS, and Linux.Current stable release: LibreCAD v2.2.0-rc1.

The CAD application has gone on to port to Qt5 which is even more advanced than the Qt4. QCad was initially built on Qt3 library which was becoming outdated and it had to be ported to a more advanced library, the Qt4, and its name was changed to CADuntu.Īfter a few months, the community decided that the name CADuntu was inappropriate and they changed it to LibreCAD. LibreCAD was started as a project for incorporating CAM capabilities into the QCad so that it would be with the Mechmate CNC router.

Importing Freehand Sketches into LibreCAD.

Librecad architecture