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Draw For Mac



The Open Source CAD System For Everyone

If you're on a Mac and want to use Visio ®, you're out of luck.Visio ® is a Windows only product. SmartDraw offers a powerful and easy-to-use solution for those looking for a Visio ® alternative on a Mac. SmartDraw offers more templates, better tools, industry-leading automation — all while being more affordable and available on any platform, Mac or Windows. The biggest advantage that new and untrained users draw out of thisfree CAD software for Macis that it a simple yet powerful, elegant, and intuitive tool to achieve structured designs. QCAD supports a plethora of design formats. Files from PDF to PNG, DWG, ICO, DGN to SVG and JPEG, and many more, can be easily worked upon.

QCAD is a free, open source application for computer aided drafting (CAD) in two dimensions (2D). With QCAD you can create technical drawings such as plans for buildings, interiors, mechanical parts or schematics and diagrams. QCAD works on Windows, macOS and Linux. The source code of QCAD is released under the GPL version 3 (GPLv3), a popular Open Source license.

The current version of QCAD is 3.25.

QCAD was designed with modularity, extensibility and portability in mind. But what people notice most often about QCAD is its intuitive user interface. QCAD is an easy to use but powerful 2D CAD system for everyone. You don't need any CAD experience to get started with QCAD immediately. You can download QCAD today for free!

Main Features

  • Layers
  • Blocks (grouping)
  • 35 CAD fonts included
  • Support for TrueType fonts
  • Various Metrical and Imperial units
  • DXF and DWG input and output
  • Printing to scale
  • Printing on multiple pages
  • Over 40 construction tools
  • Over 20 modification tools
  • Construction and modification of points, lines, arcs, circles, ellipses, splines, polylines, texts, dimensions, hatches, fills, raster images
  • Various powerful entity selection tools
  • Object snaps
  • Measuring tools
  • Part library with over 4800 CAD parts
  • Very complete and extremely powerful ECMAScript (JavaScript) scripting interface
  • Command line tools (dwg2pdf, dwg2svg, dwg2bmp, etc.)
  • QCAD/CAM:

Click here for a complete list of features.

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Drawing and sketching apps use onscreen tools, so there is no getting around that.

Free Drawing Software For Mac

If you want to draw and sketch more freehand-like, you will need to purchase a drawing/painting/sketching app, as one example Autodesk SketchBook Pro, and you would need to purchase some sort of external USB drawing tablet/stylus combo like these made by Wacom.

There are other drawing/painting/sketching apps in the Mac App Store.that you may find a better fit for you.




I do not know your budget or skills, but Wacom has a wide range of drawing tablet/stylus combinations for every budget

Generally, the larger the tablet drawing area the more more it feels like you are drawing on paper to the screen as the active drawing area gets closer to the size of your computer's screen, the more freely your hand can move around on the tablet area.


You ou can find used Wacom tablets for sale on eBay, but you need to do some homwework and research to make sure the year and model of older Wacom Tablet will work on your Mac with Yosemite installled.

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Draw For Mac

I might be best just to purchase as new