About QCAD
QCAD is an architectural CAD solution that helps businesses create technical drawings in two dimensions (2D). The platform enables managers to import and export drawings in various formats including BMP, JPEG, PNG, TIFF, ICO, and XPM.
Administrators can utilize built-in line types, fonts, and widths and clipboard functions such as copy, cut, paste, and duplicate to build diagrams. QCAD allows teams to adjust pattern scales and angles, create hatch using trimmed boundaries, and insert bitmaps. Supervisors can also edit layer attributes, view lists as dockable widgets, and merge multiple CAD drawings on a unified interface.
Other features include an architectural symbol library, 2D drawing, and drafting.
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- Industry: Construction
- Company size: Self Employed
- Used Weekly for 1+ year
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- Likelihood to recommend 8.0 /10
Solid, Free CAD Offering
Reviewed on 2022/12/11
For free software, QCAD gives you a solid platform to handle most CAD work. I use it for doing...
For free software, QCAD gives you a solid platform to handle most CAD work. I use it for doing detailed design of some aspects of building design etc. I'm a general contractor, not an architect, and I find it easy enough to use. I watched a couple of quick YouTube videos to get started and I'd recommend that if your not coming from a CAD background.
Pros
Quick and easy to draw things. Decent keyboard shortcuts to avoid to much mouse work. Very stable, it's never crashed on me.
Cons
The ability to print and export is pretty awful and I often end up doing some tidy up in an image editor. The snapping to grid is kind of a pain at times. I find I often end up with lines that are a degree or two of from straight even though I'm using the grid snapping.
- Industry: Design
- Company size: Self Employed
- Used Daily for 1-5 months
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It's good, however!
Reviewed on 2021/04/16
This software has potential to be amazing, especially if it stays at the same price. However...
This software has potential to be amazing, especially if it stays at the same price. However updates / improvements are needed in my opinion. Mostly to do with ease of use. Simplifying some of the standard tools in my opinion would be helpful. Vcarve (which is a vector CNC software) is a great example of what I mean. I use that on a daily basis and it's extremely easy to use and is centered around the same mechanics as 2D CAD software.
Unfortunately I will be sticking with DraftSight for now despite costing double the price. To be honest it costs more because at the moment it's a better software.
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The best thing about this software is the price. I currently use DraftSight, however this is half the price for essentially the same thing. It looks professional and has a lot of features. The layout I really like. It seems to be optimized well and I haven't found any bugs as of yet. This could be used to create some really complicated and in depth drawings.
Cons
It might be because I'm swapping over from different software after so long, but some of the simplest tools such as trimming seem to be overly complicated. From my experience so far the auto trim is simply useless. When I want to trim a line that over laps another line, I want to select the trim option then trim the line I want to trim, that's it!
This software does not operate like that. You have to do everything separately through a series of different tool editors within each tool. It's just to much. I literally spend most of the time on this software trying to figure out how to trim or get a polyline to bend or some other simple task that shouldn't take long at all.
The ease of use is quite terrible and it unfortunately effects the efficiency. For me, I can draw something on DraftSight in half the time. This is probably the reason why they recommend to purchase the training document alongside this software.
In my opinion 2D CAD software is 2D CAD software, the only deciding factor is the price (that's pretty much the only difference between AutoCAD and DraftSight). If I cant open this program and draw something that I have previously drawn on other software packages within relative ease then I'm at a loss.
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QCAD FAQs
Below are some frequently asked questions for QCAD.Q. What type of pricing plans does QCAD offer?
QCAD offers the following pricing plans:
- Starting from: €33.00/one-time
- Pricing model: Free Version
- Free Trial: Available
Q. Who are the typical users of QCAD?
QCAD has the following typical customers:
Self Employed, 2–10, 11–50, 51–200, 201–500, 501–1,000, 1,001–5,000
Q. What languages does QCAD support?
QCAD supports the following languages:
English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish
Q. Does QCAD support mobile devices?
QCAD supports the following devices:
Q. What other apps does QCAD integrate with?
We do not have any information about what integrations QCAD has
Q. What level of support does QCAD offer?
QCAD offers the following support options:
Email/Help Desk, FAQs/Forum, Knowledge Base, Phone Support
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