CADuntu (2D CAD Drawing Tool) Becomes LibreCAD, Gets Ubuntu PPA

CADuntu is a 2D CAD drawing tool based on the community edition of QCad ported to Qt4 and works natively on OSX, Windows and Linux.

Starting today, CADuntu has a new name: LibreCAD and it can easily be installed in Ubuntu, getting a PPA for Lucid, Maverick and Natty. Even though LibreCAD is quite new (and still in beta), it is already available in several languages and gives a real GPL solution to read/modify/create CAD files.

Install LibreCAD in Ubuntu:

For Ubuntu 10.04:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:showard314/librecad
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install librecad

For Ubuntu 10.10 and 11.04:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:showard314/ppa
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install librecad

The application will show up as "CADuntu" in the menu but that should change soon.


Download LibreCAD for Mac OSX and Windows.


See also: Bricscad: .dwg Based CAD Software Is Now Available For Linux