Audience

Engineering Professionals looking for a CAD. solution

About LibreCAD

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. LibreCAD started as a project to build CAM capabilities into the community version of QCad for use with a Mechmate CNC router. Since QCad CE was built around the outdated Qt3 library, it had to be ported to Qt4 before additional enhancements.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.

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Starting Price:
Free
Free Version:
Free Version available.

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Company Information

LibreCAD
United States
librecad.org

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Product Details

Platforms Supported
Windows
Mac
Support
Online

LibreCAD Frequently Asked Questions

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LibreCAD Product Features

Architectural CAD

2D Drawing
Drafting
3D Modeling
Architectural Symbol Library
Automatic Formatting
BIM Modeling
Comparison View
Design Templates

CAD

Database Connectivity
4-Axis Milling
User Defined Cycles
2 1/2-Axis Milling
Simulate Cycles
3-Axis Milling
Hole Making
Spiral Output
Toolpath Simulation
5-Axis Milling
Civil
3D Modeling
Mechanical
Design Analysis
Document Management
Electrical
Collaboration
Mechatronics
Presentation Tools
Design Export
2D Drawing
Structural Engineering

CAD Viewers

View .DWG Files
View .DWF Files
View .IGES Files
View .STEP Files
View .STL Files
View 2D Files
View 3D Files
Annotate
Editing
Collaboration Tools
Batch Conversion
Track Changes

Engineering

2D Drawing
Presentation Tools
3D Modeling
Chemical Engineering
Civil Engineering
Collaboration
Design Analysis
Design Export
Document Management
Electrical Engineering
Mechanical Engineering
Mechatronics
Structural Engineering