Beginner's CAD QCad tutorial

http://www.ribbonsoft.com/qcad.html HQ: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u3OhuJ6qLGk&fmt=18
QCad Professional TheCadTrain.com Screencast video tutorial
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QCad Professional is a very powerful and easy to use CAD program for Linux. It uses DXF as its standard file format. While other CAD packages get complicated to use and unclear, QCad stays comfortable and even an absolute beginner can create professional drawings with a minimum of effort.
For more information about QCad Professional please visit http://www.ribbonsoft.com/qcad.html

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[NoJake]

I love this guy's attitude.

[herrkami]

It definitely doesn't replace "thousand dollar programs" like AutoCAD or CATIA! There are so many features that aren't included in QCad. But if you like to draw circles and lines all the time it is pretty recommendable.

[fslurrehman]

Engineers are interested with final output. Same quality output can be generated with open source 2D QCAD. But if you are interested in 3D then use blender an opensource software for 3D and animation.

[therightpremiums]

He sounds like the Lawyer in Scrubs!

[Jsmith858522]

@NoJake It is very dry, which I enjoy! lol

[iykist]

@insight821 

[iykist]

@insight821 A lot of people and companies still use windows xp, it is a lot better than vista, i have from the 98 to W7 and xp and the W7 are the most stable.

[206ernesto]

@aurelrica anydwg.com/dwg-dxf/

try that

[insight821]

nice but who uses windows xp anymore haha they need to make a version for windows 7 cause thats the program im running and i need to use this for a job in arizona im taking, its like a archintect school

[nitturo]

@aurelrica qCad uses dxf as well, since it is a better format, since you can also read and edit it from a text editor - about dxf, would be great if qCad has a scripting feature (like using python), which we can code plug-ins like for importing .dxf, .blend, etc. - anyway, i agree qCad still have a lot to improve as usability, at least to be as usable as Autocad14 (from around 15 years ago)

[nitturo]

sadly, the snap of qcad is still extremelly painful to use - i can't snap into endpoints only when i have the cursor close to them - or we are always forced into endpoints, or we can have no snap, or you have other snap options can't help you...