User Interface Language

Setting the Language on First Start

When QCAD is started for the first time, a dialog is shown where the language of the user interface can be set:

Changing the Language

The user interface language of QCAD can also be changed anytime later under:

Edit > Application Preferences > Language Settings > Language > Language of User Interface

French:

Édition > Préférences générales > Configuration de langue > Langue > Langue de l’interface utilisateur

German:

Bearbeiten > Applikationseinstellungen > Spracheinstellungen > Sprache > Sprache der Benutzeroberfläche

Spanish:

Editar > Preferencias de la aplicación > Configuración de idioma > Idioma > Idioma de la interfaz de usuario

Italian:

Modifica > Preferenze d’applicazione > Impostazioni della lingua > Lingua > Lingua dell’interfaccia utente

Portuguese:

Edição > Preferências do Aplicativo > Configurações de Linguagem > Linguagem > Idioma da Interface do Usuário

Dutch:

Bewerken > Programma Voorkeursinstellingen > Taal instellingen > Taal > Taal van de gebruikersinterface

Available Languages

The QCAD user interface is available in the following languages:

Tier 1 (up to date and proofread):

• Dutch
• English
• German
• German (Swiss)

Tier 2 (up to date, machine translations):

• Bulgarian
• Chinese (Simplified)
• Chinese (Traditional)
• Croatian
• Czech
• Danish
• Estonian
• Finnish
• French
• Greek
• Hungarian
• Indonesian
• Italian
• Japanese
• Korean
• Latvian
• Lithuanian
• Norwegian (Bokmål)
• Polish
• Portuguese
• Romanian
• Russian
• Slovak
• Slovenian
• Spanish
• Swedish
• Thai
• Turkish
• Ukrainian
• Vietnamese

Setting the Language as Command Line Argument (Advanced)

It’s also possible to override the language for an individual session on the command line using the -locale command line switch:

qcad -locale de

This can be useful to create different desktop icons for different languages, one for QCAD in English, one for QCAD in German, etc.