Software:Archimedes (CAD)

Short description: Computer-aided design program

For the ancient Greek mathematician, see Archimedes.

Archimedes - The Open CAD

Archimedes User Interface
Developer(s)	Archimedes Project, University of São Paulo
Stable release	0.67.0 / July 4, 2012 (2012-07-04)
Operating system	Linux, Windows, Mac OS and any platforms supporting Java and OpenGL.
Platform	Java
Type	Architectural computer-aided design
License	Eclipse Public License
Website	archimedescad.github.io/Archimedes/

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 softwares. The program is a free software released under the Eclipse Public License.

Features

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

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 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) , and 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 functionalities from the last pre-RCP version are still under transfer. Version 0.58.0 will move this process a step closer by adding trimming, leader, svg and pdf exporting.

External links

• Archimedes Home Page
• Archimedes on SourceForge.net
• Hugo Corbucci's Blog (Archimedes Project Lead)
• Github Repository