QCAD Documentation

Documentation for Users

• The official QCAD Book:
  QCAD - An Introduction to Computer-Aided Design
  
• User Reference Manual
  Translations: English, German
  Automatic translations: Danish, Dutch, French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Polish
  Partial translations: Japanese, Russian
• Tutorials
• Installation Instructions
• Installation instructions for Ubuntu (very verbose) 
• Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)
• Changelog
• Features
• Supported Platforms
• List of all Keyboard Shortcuts:
  • English
  • Czech
  • Danish
  • Dutch
  • Finnish
  • French
  • German
  • Hungarian
  • Italian
  • Japanese
  • Lithuanian
  • Polish
  • Portuguese
  • Russian
  • Slovak
  • Slovenian
  • Spanish
  • Swedish

QCAD/CAM

• Brief QCAD/CAM Tutorial
• QCAD/CAM Postprocessor

Developers

• The QCAD Scripting Interface
  An introduction to QCAD scripting.
• QCAD Application Framework API Documentation
• Qt API modules overview
  Most of these modules and classes are fully available to scripts.
• Compiling QCAD from Sources

Command Line Tools

• QCAD Command Line Tools (dwg2bmp, dwg2svg, dwg2pdf)

Community

• QCAD User and Developer Discussion Forum
• Various tips and tutorials from QCAD users, posted to the forum

Third Party Documentation

• Free QCAD Training Videos

Legacy Documentation for QCAD 2 in Other Languages

• Chinese User Reference Manual (2.2, HTML)
• Czech User Reference Manual (2.0, HTML)
• Finnish User Reference Manual, Chapter 4 (2.2, PDF)
• French User Reference Manual (2.2, PDF)
• German User Reference Manual (2.2, HTML)
• German User Reference Manual (2.2, PDF)
• Hungarian User Reference Manual (2.0, HTML)
• Italian User Reference Manual (2.0, PDF, Community Edition)
• Italian User Reference Manual (2.2, HTML)
• Portuguese User Reference Manual (2.2, PDF)
• Russian User Reference Manual (2.2, HTML)
• Spanish User Reference Manual (2.2, HTML)