CADCOMPUTER AIDED DRAFTING/DESIGN

QCADSoftware made by a company named RIBBON

SOFT globally used by various engineers for computer aided designs/drafting in 2-D.

With QCAD you can create technical drawings such as plans for buildings, interior designs, mechanical parts or we can plan anything and make diagrams of the plan.

QCADQCAD works on Windows, Mac OS X and many

Linux and Unix Systems. The source code of the QCAD community edition is released under the GPL (General Public License).

MAIN FEATURES:Multi-document interface, Layer support, Block

support (grouping)Integrated part / symbol browser24bit Colors24 different line widths

QCAD19 line styles35 CAD optimized fonts200 undo/ redo levelsSupported units:Metrical: Nanometer, Millimeter, Centimeter,

Decimeter, Meter, ...Imperial: Inch, Foot, Mile, Microinch, Mil,

YardOther: Angstrom, Micron, Astro, Lightyear,

Parsec

QCADSUPPORTED FILE FORMATS:DXF R12 and DXF 200x (reading / writing),BMP,

JPEG, PNG, .. (import and export as bitmaps),SVG (export),High quality PDF (export)

PRINTING:Printing to scale (e.g. 1:2, 1:100, ..),Print

preview with paper selectionCONSTRUCTION:Points, Lines, with two points, given absolute

angle, horizontal / vertical, rectangles, parallels, bisectors, tangents, orthogonal……

QCADArcs:Center, radius, angles, three points, concentric Circles, center, circle line point, center, radius,

two opposed points, three points, concentricEllipses:center, two points (minor and major axis)center, two points, start angle, end angleSplines (NURBS):degrees 2, 3closed, open

QCADModification:Move, rotate, scale, mirror, move and rotate,

rotate and counter-rotate, trim to entity. trim by amount, bevel, round, divide, divide 2 (remove segment)

stretchedit geometry (numeric)edit attributesAnd many more………

QCADFeatures are very similar to high

cost software's like AUTOCAD.User is always concerned with the

features so it can be used in every possible way.

Can be downloaded anywhere from internet.

So QCAD is preferable.

Thanks for your time……