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LibreCAD

2D Computer Aided Design (CAD).

  • Completely free
  • Windows, macOS and Linux
  • Open source
  • No account

Overview

File formats mentioned: PDF, SVG, DXF and DWG.

Overview written by LicitPro from the documentation published by the authors and the cited sources; we have not tried the resource ourselves.

At a glance

All of LibreCAD is free: no feature is locked behind a paid plan, and its code is open.

Its licence (GPL-2.0) is a copyleft open source licence: you may use, study, modify and redistribute it, including commercially; modified versions must keep the same licence.

Strengths

  • Open source code
  • No account needed
  • Commercial use allowed

About

LibreCAD is a 2D Computer Aided Design (CAD) application for creating plans and designs on your computer. It can be used to make accurate 2D representations of floorplans, part designs and just about anything that can be represented as a flat 2D plan.

Description from Flathub — AppStream (Flathub)

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  • Facts collected from Official plan pages (pricing, licence, terms) (commercial use) —
  • Facts collected from Winget (Windows Package Manager) (credit card, account, source code, publisher, licence, free status, platforms, commercial use, version) —
  • Facts collected from Wikidata (licence, platforms) —
  • Last technical check: 5 November 2026
  • Description from Flathub — AppStream (Flathub)

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