Presently i'm using a macos vm to build and distribute the macos FreeCAD.app mac app bundles hosted on the homebrew-freecad tap. this has proven more difficult than i had originally planned, but have made some recent headway. and the time that i do have, i've been spending it working on getting a freecad build built on a big sur box and being able to distribute a FreeCAD.app bundle that will run on macos 10.13 to the latest version. With an update to the database used to store information about the blocks, we have much better performance with large collections.įor people working with QCAD on Macs, it also got some improvements for the most recent Apple M1 and M2 processors.I was recently granted access to a m1 machine, but my time has been limited.

This update has an important change for people using QCAD with a large base of blocks in DXF. If you have QCAD as part of your workflow, it just received a minor update with version 3.28. With the QCAD Professional, which requires a purchase, and you get some extras like the ability to read and write DWG files. The free and open source option is the community version. One of the confusing aspects of QCAD that drives some people away from it is the existence of two separate versions: Why QCAD? It is a stable and full of features option for 2D drawing that can generate PDF files and works with DXF files.

For that reason, I always try to introduce QCAD to students and fellow architects trying to start with open-source. But, you would be amazed to know that for the vast majority of projects, having a robust 2D drawing software is more than enough. What is the most important tool for an architect? You might think that having a robust 3D modeler or a BIM tool is the central piece of an architect workflow.

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