Meanwhile, for LibreCAD 2.2.0 series, Qt5 is mandatory. The Qt4 porting was completed eventually during the development of 2.0.0 series, thanks to our master developer Rallaz, and LibreCAD has become Qt3 free except in the 1.0.0 series. Porting the rendering engine to Qt4 proved to be a large task, so LibreCAD initially still depended on the Qt3 support library. After some discussion within the community and research on existing names, CADuntu was renamed to LibreCAD.
The project was known as CADuntu only for a couple of months before the community decided that the name was inappropriate. Since QCad CE was built around the outdated Qt3 library, it had to be ported to Qt4 before additional enhancements.
LibreCAD started as a project to build CAM capabilities into the community version of QCad for use with a Mechmate CNC router. You, too, can also get involved! How it started Support and documentation are free from our large, dedicated community of users, contributors and developers. LibreCAD is a free Open Source CAD application for Windows, Apple and Linux.
