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While QCAD 2 was being forked into LibreCAD, I was busy working on QCAD 3 which provides a much better architecture for extending and maintaining QCAD and offers a very powerful and complete scripting interface. So I decided to make my own port, this would lead me to the advantage of knowing QT’s internals better, in case I needed to know that during my CAM project.

When I started to do the work and looked around, I noticed there where a lot of complains about that QCad CE was only available for Qt3, and if I would give my CAM program any change to be used by others, I came to the conclusion that I needed a version of QCad in Qt4… In 2010, Ries van Twisk decided to add CAM features to the Community Edition of QCAD and instead got himself into working on the Qt4 port and then on the core features of what later became LibreCAD. Some chosen script extensions and modules could have been released under a different license, creating a new business model.

All in all, no reason for hard feelings.Īccording to Andrew Mustun, an open source version of QCAD 3 was also planned and would have made perfect sense from a community perspective as well as a business perspective: Reportedly, there have been few patches and more other kinds of contributions - translations, CAD part library items, fonts, hatch patterns.
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The lack of strong opinions on the matter could partially be explained by the lack of source code contributions. Andrew says that feedback about QCAD, the QCAD community edition and the business model was mostly positive with very few negative voices. The final release of QCAD 3.0 followed in summer 2012.īefore you ask, according to Ribbonsoft, the whole idea of mixing the open source and the closed source business models wasn’t exactly controversial. The community edition was years old by the time. It was the first new public release of QCAD since late 2009. Indeed, around 2009 the company started rewriting QCAD and released the first public beta version of QCad v3.0 in August 2011. According to Andrew, the time gap between them was usually about a year, and it increased while the lead developer was working on QCAD 3, since there was nothing new to release during that period of completely rewriting QCAD. The difference between commercial and free versions was mostly about amount of features and the date of availability. QCAD is a CAD system for Windows, Mac and Linux, created by Ribbonsoft and available in two editions: the commercial one and the free one called Community Edition (GPLv2). As if recent LibreDWG story wasn’t quite sufficient, the most recent news is that Ribbonsoft is not going to release Community Edition of QCAD right now.
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The combination of the two systems creates a productive collaboration from which machine and plant manufacturers benefit.It’s quite disturbing how much controversy a small software niche can get in a relatively small timeframe. Both products are among the market leaders in their fields and offer an outstanding price-performance ratio. The basic software is ISOGEN® from the market leader Alias (Intergraph). Smap3D Isometric exports all information about the 3D pipelines and creates the isometric drawing fully automatically.

Smap3D Isometric for Autodesk Inventor, Solid Edge® and SOLIDWORKS® For the creation of piping isometrics we offer the integrated solution Smap3D Isometric for Autodesk Inventor, Solid Edge® and SOLIDWORKS®. Isometrics can easily be generated leveraging the Isogen® technology from ALIAS (Intergraph). We close the gap between plant, equipment and machine construction. It is much less expensive than the traditional planning systems.
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Our Plant Design solution is easy to install and operate. This type of drawing shows the pipeline NOT to scale and simplified with all contents and all dimensions in length, width and height, with the major axes of these three dimensions intersecting at the angle of 60°.
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The iso is a technical drawing in the form of an isometric representation for the production of pipelines.

The third element of the typical process chain in plant construction is isometric drawings.
