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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."

2 of 52 comments (clear)

  1. NonNative by norwoodites · · Score: 5, Interesting

    It is not native, it uses QT which uses custom widgets so it is slow, a native would use Cocoa (or maybe Carbon) libraries and almost no custom widgets.

  2. Autocad and OS X by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Autodesk is considering porting Autocad if they receive sufficient indication of interest - it was a big enough deal to make Apple's news page. A Google search might turn something up. Here's what I could find:

    http://www.architosh.com/news/2003-05/2003c-0512 -a cad-update.phtml