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GPL-Licensed QCAD Ported to Mac OS X

Posted by timothy on from the slickness-and-light dept.

AlwaysTimeForCoffee writes "QCad, a free open-source 2D CAD system for Linux, various Unices and Windows, from RibbonSoft, has been ported to a native OS X version by Gilbert Duivesteijn. A screenshot of the OS X version can be found here. Qcad is a light, GPL'd version of the commercial available CAM Expert. It truely is an outstanding program and has earned 5 out of 5 Penguins on Tucow's Linuxberg and IceWalker review. With this native OS X release, a commercial quality CAD system has been made available to the Apple community."

6 of 52 comments (clear)

  1. Really?! by jsse · · Score: 2, Funny

    It truely is an outstanding program and has earned 5 out of 5 Penguins on Tucow's Linuxberg and IceWalker review

    You mean 5 out of 5 penguins use it? Get me one baby!

  2. Finally... by psyconaut · · Score: 4, Funny

    ...a CAD package for OS X that I can afford! :-)

    -psy

  3. It's a bit buggy... by Green+Light · · Score: 5, Funny

    Select "Preferences..." under the QCad menu. You get the "Print..." dialog.

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  4. and the moral is... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    For ghod's sake, use Quartz!

    The screen shot looks like an X-Windows nightmare. Jaggies, jaggies everywhere!

  5. Modal dialogs, eeeeewwwwww! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    I feel like I just stepped back to a few years ago, before those abominations were eliminated by OSX.
    You can't even drag the main window when preferences is open.

  6. Re:NonNative by NaveNosnave · · Score: 1, Funny

    Oh great, now I have to figure out how to mod myself down...

    Evan Evanson