{"id":1680,"date":"2013-09-19T06:12:40","date_gmt":"2013-09-19T06:12:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/?p=1680"},"modified":"2014-02-11T03:24:01","modified_gmt":"2014-02-11T03:24:01","slug":"qcad-33-released-install-it-ubuntu-linux-mint","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/2013\/09\/qcad-33-released-install-it-ubuntu-linux-mint\/","title":{"rendered":"QCAD 3.3 Released, How to Install it in Ubuntu \/ Linux Mint"},"content":{"rendered":"

The 2D CAD software QCad 3.3 has been released with a focus on block attributes. Block attributes can be used to define variable, dynamic text entities in blocks. Watch this screencast for a brief introduction on creating and using block attributes with QCAD.<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=X-1Wtq0Mpbw<\/p>\n

QCAD is available in Ubuntu Software Center by default, but it’s old. This tutorial is going to show you how to download & install the latest package (so far, it’s 3.3) in Ubuntu 13.04 Raring, Ubuntu 13.10 Saucy, Ubuntu 12.04 Precise and their derivatives such as Linux Mint and Elementary OS.<\/p>\n

Download & Install QCad 3.3:<\/h3>\n

Download:<\/p>\n

QCad installer for 32-bit Linux<\/a><\/center><\/p>\n

QCad installer for 64-bit Linux<\/a><\/center><\/p>\n

Install:<\/p>\n

1. Go to Downloads folder, right-click on downloaded file and go to its Properties<\/i> window. Check on ‘Allow executing file as program.’ under Permissions tab.<\/p>\n

\"qcad<\/a><\/p>\n

2. Press Ctrl+Alt+T<\/b> on your keyboard to open terminal. When it opens, run below commands to run the installer:<\/p>\n

cd ~\/Downloads\/ && .\/qcad-3.3.0-linux-x86_*.bin<\/pre>\n
That’s it. Enjoy!<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The 2D CAD software QCad 3.3 has been released with a focus on block attributes. Block attributes can be used to define variable, dynamic text entities in blocks. Watch this screencast for a brief introduction on creating and using block attributes with QCAD. http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=X-1Wtq0Mpbw QCAD is available in Ubuntu Software Center by default, but it’s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[612,613,17,15],"class_list":["post-1680","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-howtos","tag-2d-cad-software","tag-qcad","tag-ubuntu-12-04","tag-ubuntu-13-04"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1680","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1680"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1680\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}