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Qcad Free Version for basics only.

Posted: Sun Jan 16, 2022 1:08 am
by sswcharlie
Hi
All I want is to do 2D drawings like the side of a train carriage with the windows etc. With dimensions and have a information block on the bottom rhs
Need the free version. Own use only.

Using Linux Mint17 on Toshiba laptop. 32 bit

Have downloaded this file into Mint

qcad-3.27.1.trial-linux-x86_32.run

is this the correct file for me ? and what is the Linux terminal code to open and install ?
What do I do to make it the free version? (with restricted options)

Thankyou
Charles Harris

Re: Qcad Free Version for basics only.

Posted: Sun Jan 16, 2022 2:28 am
by Husky
Hi Charles Harris - welcome back in the QCAD forum, :wink:
sswcharlie wrote:
Sun Jan 16, 2022 1:08 am
All I want is to do 2D drawings like the side of a train carriage with the windows etc. With dimensions and have a information block on the bottom rhs
Need the free version. Own use only.
Please download the trial version (which can be twitched to a free version) from this page:
https://www.qcad.org/de/qcad-downloads-trial

To make it a free version please follow this instruction:
https://www.qcad.org/rsforum/viewtopic. ... 668#p17085

Unfortunately I can't help you with the correct Linux version - I'm on Windows. But I'm sure somebody else will help you with that!

Just curios: Is that the same Train carriage project from your forum request in 2014?

Re: Qcad Free Version for basics only.

Posted: Sun Jan 16, 2022 7:05 am
by sswcharlie
Yes Husky you are so correct,

In my part of the world (new Zealand) it is called 'old age' (77). Forgot clean about that. Changed laptops etc meantime etc.

I will now proceed to followup on my first post on this subject. lol

Charlie

Re: Qcad Free Version for basics only.

Posted: Sun Jan 16, 2022 7:28 am
by Husky
sswcharlie wrote:
Sun Jan 16, 2022 7:05 am
In my part of the world (new Zealand) it is called 'old age' (77).
Hmmm, when I last checked (decades ago!) the "Land of the long white cloud" there wasn't such a thing like "old age". Probably I just forgot it ... LOL
sswcharlie wrote:
Sun Jan 16, 2022 7:05 am
I will now proceed to followup on my first post on this subject. lol
Great! See you in the forum ... :wink:

Re: Qcad Free Version for basics only.

Posted: Sun Jan 16, 2022 1:05 pm
by petevick
sswcharlie wrote:
Sun Jan 16, 2022 1:08 am
is this the correct file for me ? and what is the Linux terminal code to open and install ?
I think that file should be correct for you.

to install, just make sure that under Permissions in the file Properties that Execute is checked, then simply double click on the file to install.

Re: Qcad Free Version for basics only.

Posted: Sun Jan 16, 2022 10:39 pm
by sswcharlie
Hi Pete

Thanks for reply.

Have tried that and get nothing using display, and run, but with run from terminal it comes up briefly with 'checking archive integrity, then nothing.

I am checking with some Linux users as well.

Thankyou

Charles

Re: Qcad Free Version for basics only.

Posted: Sun Jan 16, 2022 10:42 pm
by sswcharlie
Hi Husky

We are changing the name to 'Land of the shakey isles and booming sky'.

This reference to many earthquakes and now loud booms in the sky from the volcano explosion in Tonga Islands. And they are 2000 miles away.

lol

Charles