gCAD3D 1.60 released with cool new features

Submitted by razvi on April 3, 2011 - 20:35

gCAD3D is a lightweight but powerful 3D CAD-CAM application "that features an integrated 3D OpenGL viewer" and support importing/exporting Uges, DXF, VRML and much more.

gCAD3D 1.60 has just been released and brings quite a lot of new features:

  • new shortcut "Ctrl+F" activates "search" option, "Esc" deactivates it (you can easily search/expose lists of all objects of a certain type, filter the list of objects by name/info, create/edit Objectname/Objectinfo, copy objectID into CAD inputfield -right-click on it-->copy-to-model-, modufy/delete object -rught-click on it-->modify/delete-object)
  • plugins can now store application-specific data in "ApplicationData"
  • plugins can create application-specific objects, OpenGL-objects included, too ("ApplicationObjects")
  • documentation updated (take a look at gCAD3D's "online" fledged manual)

How do we install gCAD3D version 1.60?

  • download the package from here (32&64-bit)
  • right-click on it-->Properties-->Permissions-->Allow executing file as a program

  • follow the instructions ("Continue", "Finish")


  • an icon will appear on the desktop "gCAD3D.desktop"

  • right-click on gCAD3D.desktop-->Properties-->Permissions-->Allow executing file as a program

  • now the old icon becomes the "real" icon
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