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LibreCAD is a fork [0] of QCAD Community Edition. It looks very similar, but it is actually a separate piece of software. The biggest difference I see between
by Vedor 4y ago
LibreCAD is a fork [0] of QCAD Community Edition. It looks very similar, but it is actually a separate piece of software.
The biggest difference I see between these two is UI and the pace of development. LibreCAD is still being worked on, but the latest stable release was in 2016. Last patch for QCAD has been released four days ago.
Personally, I prefer QCAD to LibreCAD. Both are quirky to use, but QCAD is at least a little bit less quirky. If you are coming from AutoCAD, then both will be equally confusing.
[0] Maybe not literally, README file available in LibreCAD repo declares that "LibreCAD is a 2D CAD drawing tool based on the community edition of QCAD." On the other hand, Libre Arts article [1] calls it fork.
[1] https://librearts.org/2013/03/librecad-vs-qcad/ https://librearts.org/2013/03/librecad-vs-qcad/
- app4soft 4y ago> Personally, I prefer QCAD to LibreCAD. Both are quirky to use, but QCAD is at least a little bit less quirky. LibreCAD in same time has a better performance with big/complex drawings, than QCAD.
- auxym 4y agoThe other big difference is DWG compatibility for interop with AutoCAD. QCAD has good DWG compat, but only in the commercial version. LibreCAD has not-great DWG support and is free. Last I remember reading about it, they were looking to get better DWG support via the LibreDWG library, but they needed to strip out and fully rewrite a bunch of old QCAD code to achieve that, due to licensing issues.