Useful, easy to use design software - and it's free.

[alpha2]

The download site says the trial version shuts down after 15 minutes, but can be restarted. Is there a way to turn that off, short of getting the license? There is mention of a "community version" in the website docs, but can't find it anywhere.

Thanks,

Jeff

[Stonegate]

After you install the software, the first time you start the program there is a box on the right hand side that tells you how to remove that limitation. But the program won’t do this automatically for you.

You will have to manually delete the files for the “professional add-on” that are located in the “plugins” folder in the QCAD directory where it was installed on your computer.

Sounds harder to do than it actually is.

By removing those files the software then becomes the community version.

[alpha2]

thanks! I knew I was missing something. 

Jeff

[KittenThrasher]

4 hours ago, alpha2 said:

The download site says the trial version shuts down after 15 minutes, but can be restarted. Is there a way to turn that off, short of getting the license? There is mention of a "community version" in the website docs, but can't find it anywhere.

Thanks,

Jeff

Hi Jeff, 

I'm thinking they've changed it a bit since I had the trial, I think mine went for an hour before I had to restart. if you scroll right to the very bottom of the download page it shows this:

QCAD Community Edition

If you are looking for the free open source QCAD Community Edition, you can download the trial version for your platform (see above) and then remove the QCAD Professional add-on running in trial mode. Alternatively, you may compile your own package from sources below.

I'd never seen it before either, 'might be useful for a few people here. 

the plugins control panel thingy is in the 'Help' > 'about' tab,

 

Good luck,

[alpha2]

Thanks. Got it running now. It's still one huge mystery. This will take some time!

[wheeldawg]

Hello folks. I realize this post is a bit old, but I was searching for AutoCAD related posts. I was wondering if anyone has, or knows where I might find, AutoCAD blocks for individual stamps. I am very proficient with AutoCAD and could play with some preliminary stamp layouts before putting it to leather if I had the blocks. If not, I will probably just make my own. 

 

Thanks

 

[LetterT]

On 1/29/2018 at 5:15 PM, KittenThrasher said:

 I confiscated my kids homework laminator for this, told ‘em it was too dangerous, what with it being hot and likely to drag their arms in and rip them off  at the shoulders etc; (health and safety ‘concerns’ always work!)

This reminds me of a time I broke the company A3 size laminator (I swear unintentional) and then a year later the company had a sale of all items from the storage. I bought some 17" computer monitors for 15$, older computers (still perfectly fine as office machines) for 10$ and - broken laminator for 5$. It stayed at my home storage for another year and I finally had it repaired for cheap, t turned out the heat protection fuse burned out, nobody bothered to service it.

[chrisash]

On 7/27/2018 at 10:31 PM, wheeldawg said:

Hello folks. I realize this post is a bit old, but I was searching for AutoCAD related posts. I was wondering if anyone has, or knows where I might find, AutoCAD blocks for individual stamps. I am very proficient with AutoCAD and could play with some preliminary stamp layouts before putting it to leather if I had the blocks. If not, I will probably just make my own. 

 

Thanks

 

There is some posts on using 3D printers to make the stamps drawn by acad and others