Archimedes (CAD)

Archimedes – "The Open CAD" – (also called Arquimedes) is a computer-aided design (CAD) program developed with direct input from architects and architecture firms. With this design philosophy, the developers hope to create software better suited for architecture than the currently widely used AutoCAD, and other available CAD software.[1] The program is free software released under the Eclipse Public License.

For the ancient Greek mathematician, see Archimedes.

Archimedes - The Open CAD
Developer(s)Archimedes Project, University of São Paulo
Stable release
0.67.0 / July 4, 2012 (2012-07-04)
Repository
Operating systemLinux, Windows, Mac OS and any platforms supporting Java and OpenGL.
PlatformJava
TypeArchitectural computer-aided design
LicenseEclipse Public License
Websitearchimedescad.github.io/Archimedes/

Features
  • Basic drawing
    • Lines, Polylines, Arcs and Circles.
    • Editable Text
    • Explore
    • Offset
  • Advanced CAD functions
  • Miscellaneous
    • Autosave
    • SVG export
    • PDF export
    • English, Portuguese, and Italian language support

Integration with other CAD systems

Archimedes uses its own XML-based open format, which resembles SVG. It does not yet include support for other CAD formats, but DXF support is planned.

Development

Archimedes is written in Java, and the latest version runs on Windows, Mac OS X, Linux/Unix based systems, and might run on platforms that are supported by LWJGL and a Java Virtual machine on version 1.5.0 or later.

History

The Archimedes Project started as a collaboration between a group of programmers and architecture students at the University of São Paulo, Brazil, in 2005. The project is currently being worked on as free and open source software. There is a team of students from the University working on it as collaborators under the coordination of Hugo (project leader) but everyone is free to contribute with plugins and/or patches.

Timeline
  • Archimedes was registered as a SourceForge.net project on July 12, 2005.
  • The last stable pre-RCP version was 0.16.0, released on October 25, 2000.
  • The first stable version after the RCP migration was 0.50.0, released on April 25, 2007.

Migration to Eclipse RCP in version 0.5x

A migration to the Eclipse Rich Client Platform in versions 0.5x has greatly improved the user interface model and stability, but some of the functionality from the last pre-RCP version is still being transferred. Version 0.58.0 moved this process a step closer by adding trimming, leader, svg and pdf exporting.

References
  1. "Archimedes Project — Archimedes - the Open CAD". Archived from the original on June 1, 2007. Retrieved April 20, 2007. Archimedes Project
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