This said - after two years "testing around" my decision was QCAD Pro. Most of the time it is working as expected and the developers have always an open ear for new features. And believe me - If somebody in the forum tells you "that isn't possible with the current version" helps you more than guessing around for hours or days why it isn't working as expected. ![]() An active international forum and program updates every few month helps you to get the job done. I learned over the years that it is a very important part and it looks like a "stepchild" for many CAD developers out there.įortunately that isn't the case with QCAD. What I haven't put in my deliberation was how active is the development and the support of the existing CAD programs. Compatibility is very important just to avoid an island CAD solution. Important for me was to have tools which are similar to that what I was used to and that I'm pretty close to the standard of the "big" programs. Yes, with my experience I was pretty picky. I tested intense a lot of CAD programs over a course of two years. I had decades of experience with "big" CAD programs and was on the search for something adequate for small businesses or home usage. Please test LibreCAD-2.2.0-rc2-BigSur.dmg and report success or failure to the above forum thread.I can't tell you what is the right decision for you - but I can tell you what was the right decision for me. ![]() We have a new DMG package which was build by a community member on Big Sur, but not on a M1 system. If you have one of these, M1-Chip hardware or Big Sur 11.1, you're welcome to test the package and share you're results here: It is reported, that the MacOS package doesn't work on new Mac hardware with M1-Chip and Big Sur 11.1. New Mac hardware with M1-Chip / macOS Big Sur 11.1 Our online manual at is almost up to date with this release candidate. There you can find nightly builds for Windows and macOS, which should be tested and may have issues fixed from this release candidate. Please find here the binary packages for Windows and macOS.Īnd hopefully soon also an AppImage for Linux, any help to achieve this is welcome.Īs the work continues, have a look at our SourceForge site too. There may be still some issues with DWG we want to address and fix for the final 2.2.0 release. We fixed some really serious bugs with DWG reading, what hopefully leads to much less issues and crashes when opening DWG files. More than 280 commits since 2.2.0-rc1 and too much delay, but here it is, the next big step to final 2.2.0 release. This has become possible through OpenCollective and by GitHub Sponsors. These are basically used to pay our expenses for hosting and domain services. There may be LibreCAD 3 releases in parallel in future, but for the time being, not with the features that LibreCAD 2.2 currently offers.Īt last, let me mention, that we recently resumed to accept financial contributions again. That means there will probably be one or two more feature release 2.2.x. These can now be integrated into an unstable development branch. It is still a long way from productive use.Īlso there are still many contributions available for version 2.2 we wont waste. Unfortunately, we have to disappoint people who are hoping for a soon release of LibreCAD 3. This new stable version 2.2.0 finally replaces the previous stable 2.1.3. The new release also has an online manual which is hosted at Read the Docs.
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