Hello all!
I am in the middle of moving to a other house, but I guess I can spare a couple of minutes to create a new blog entry.
A couple of weeks ago, I released a Beta3, and shortly after user found some issues, so I never officially announced a Beta 3. I made all changes and here it is… Beta 4!
So what’s fixed then in 3&4?
- Button/text overlap in toolbar area : 3101744, 3101614
- Restore and save dockstate: 3091386 patch by Rallaz
- Replaced older dxflib with new dxf library
- Added polyline support: from Jan’s qcad free
- Fixed crash on command line interaction: 3098531 reported by Adamzone
- Fixed library browser : 3090688, reported by Rallaz
- Fixed empty images during export: 3095753
- Closing app works now correctly, when pressing cancel you really cancel: 3103190
- Layers can be deleted, so as blocks: 3102199, 3105191 reported by rodrigopitanga
- utf-8 support for layers and block names :
- Menu errors (also in QCAD) : 3092018 reported by Robert
- Switching between multiple drawings: 3056455 reported by sliptronic
- Add some default libraries so the library browser show something.
- More little things and stuff…
So, all in all I think CADuntu is much more mature now and I am really happy with the support from everybody! There is much more to come, but personally I am hoping to start working on my CAM additions so I can finally put my Mechmate to good use!
Ries
Actually I have Beta 2. How can I update?
Are you searching a new name for caduntu?
Andrés, i suggested LibreCAD, because the confusion we can have with CADuntu as an Ubuntu subdistro is so huge someone suggested a icon very similar as from Ubuntu for this project – i think should be very clear the difference between a CAD application and a Linux distro, starting from its name – here is my suggestion for the icon: http://img809.imageshack.us/img809/5046/icon2k.png – and for the logo: http://img541.imageshack.us/img541/2029/librecad1640w.png
and btw, if someone want to start with CADuntu as Ubuntu distro with CAD applications, there are lots of interesting software libre can be part of it as well as LibreCAD:
– Salome ( http://www.salome-platform.org/ )
– FreeCAD ( http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/free-cad/index.php?title=Main_Page , and also available from Ubuntu and Debian repositories)
– HeeksCAD ( http://code.google.com/p/heekscad/ )
– Blender CAD extensions ( http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Extensions:2.4/Py/Scripts#CAD_Tools )
(these are software libre projects more close to SolidWorks and Inventor than Autocad)
and of course, this LibreCAD project! 🙂
if someone is interested on starting a CADuntu PPA (a bit like https://launchpad.net/puredyne ) and live-cd, please be welcome!
what do you all think? 🙂
Andres,
if you are on Windows or OSC then just download the installer (Windows) or the dmg (OSX).
If you are using CADuntu from SVN, then just run:
svn update
qmake
make
And you should be at Beta 4.
About a new name, I got some ‘complains’ 😉 that the name CADuntu is associated with some people for a CAD version of Ubuntu. I never really thought of that since I never used Ubuntu or knew about it’s related projects. But well, LibreCAD is the other name we can use.
Ries
I suggest openCAD
Forget that it already exists
Gaz,
it’s hard to find a name… isn’t it?
well i thought about OpenCAD as well, but Libre has a stronger meaning – a software can be open source, but not software libre – see the example of Mono, and those ‘open source’ licenses from Microsoft, which are nothing libre at all – http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/words-to-avoid.html#Open
well Ries, we must admit the fact of CADuntu being listed at distrowatch.org is huge… 😐 (for now, there is nothing at http://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=caduntu – but wouldn’t be a surprise if someone starts CADuntu as Linux distro, and that page having some info about) – and thank you a lot on considering this concern! 😉
Thank you, Because I have Ubuntu and I don’t know how make a update.
Well… I think that you project CADuntu has something like the story about Daedalus
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daedalus
We are trapped into a labyrinth and your program become us free.
I think that the name could be CAeDalus.
The logo could be like this: http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_HQMU6E89au4/S-Em5dawoPI/AAAAAAAAAaE/L2QGzyGGTMg/s1600/DEDALO.jpg
well, this logotype looks confusing, and plenty of noisy information – and confusing ‘e’ with ‘xi’, and ‘a’ with ‘lambda’ is surelly not the best approach for a logotype (surelly Greece is plenty of software libre users, and they will surelly laugh on this…) – as well, i keep the idea on using a logotype looking like drawn from a pen-plotter
How about X-CAD as in cross cad. X-Cad the cross platform CAD solution.
+CAD
X is too close to Xorg, XFree86, OS-X, etc…
I don’t mind what it’s called – just keep developing this great program!
Hello Reis, I’m the maintainer of QCad in Debian and Ubuntu. I’d like to talk to you about your plans and possible test/experimental inclusion in Debian (and an Ubuntu PPA) while your in Beta, and then full inclusion in Ubuntu/Debian when it’s ready. Please drop me an email (you should see it through this post). Thanks! Keep up the good work.
Excelent! Now we will have CADuntu or CAeDalus or LibreCAD or anything most easly in our systems 😀
Here’s an Ubuntu ppa for libreCAD, beta4. Works with Ubuntu 11.04, 10.10, 10.04
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:showard314/ppa
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install librecad
It doesn’t install documentation yet, but it will install all necessary libraries and a ugly-icon entry in the program menu under “Applications->Graphics”. You can start it from the command line by typing “caduntu”
Uf, I have 9.10 :S
For you, Andrés – i added 9.10 😉 I’ll also add 9.04 just for good measure! Same installation instructions.
I spoke too soon: Launchpad won’t build the 9.10(karmic) one. If I get it working I’ll let you know.
Great update to QT4!!!! Thanks a lots!!! LibreCAD is great name… like LibreOffice!!! Please where list request and bugs in sourceforge??
I have Ubuntu 10.04 64bits… compile de last svn… but de ppa is great!!!
I hope report bugs and request soon!!!
Nos vemos!!!
Hi all,
Error install ppa package: libqtcore4 (>=4:4.7.0~beta1) pero se va a instalar 4:4.6.2-0ubuntu5.1
I have ubuntu 10.04 64 bits… some ppa? or other solution… i other ways still have my proper caduntu compile from svn…
For last, this changelog QCAD 3 http://www.ribbonsoft.com/qcad_doc_changelog.html… some interesting new features 🙂
Greetings!!
David,
you can find the bug track here : http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?limit=25&func=&group_id=342582&atid=1433844&status=1
To compile CADuntu, you can take at the blogpost here : http://www.caduntu.org/2010/10/debian-64-bit-and-ubuntu-compile-how-to/
Ries
That’s a bug in the Launchpad build when you try to use the same package for multiple Ubuntu releases.
For Ubuntu 10.04 use:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:showard314/librecad
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install librecad
for Ubuntu 10.10 and Natty use:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:showard314/ppa
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install librecad
I the future I’ll probably just move everything to: ppa:showard314/librecad, but as a work around use the above PPAs for your release.