GPL-Licensed QCAD Ported to Mac OS X

Posted by timothy on Monday July 7, 2003 @01:52PM 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."

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Finally... by psyconaut · 2003-07-07 14:09 · Score: 4, Funny

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

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It's a bit buggy... by Green+Light · 2003-07-07 14:10 · Score: 5, Funny

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

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and the moral is... by Anonymous Coward · 2003-07-07 15:14 · Score: 5, Funny

For ghod's sake, use Quartz!

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