It has issues too, but for many tasks it's brilliant, and the cloud-sourcing of subcomponents is a really useful concept. Something with the user interface from sketchup would be great for most people. brlCAD was just too scary and complicated - it may be _really_ good, but again probably only in 1980's kind of way. I did try doing CAD in blender, but it was pretty painful as blender was never really designed as a CAD tool. Of course what we really want is 3D CAD so you can't accidentally make a building where the plan doesn't match up with the elevations. Needs a little more love then it can be uploaded. I have no idea hard it would be to get libreCAD to read DWGs, but I hope someone gets enthused to do that work soon. QCAD/libreCAD using libreDWG would be extremely useful, because it's true that a lot of manufacturer-provided drawings are now DWG-only. The problem is that nothing uses the library, so it is of limited use on its own. The article says that LibreDWG is a long way from a release, but my experience is that's it actually works quite well for reading DWG files. It's a pity that Ribbbonsoft didn't find opening up their code to provide enough benefit to keep doing it. I am now a QCAD expert, and whilst it's a very solid program, it is old-fashioned 2D vector CAD with some annoying features. I've been doing a lot of CAD recently, and it's fair to say that one makes life hard for oneself by doing it on Linux, and with free software. You must be a paid-up member of the ODA in order to access its software, and you are not allowed to share it with others." Yet as is too often the case, the organization and product do not live up to their names. An independent group called the Open Design Alliance (ODA) did just that, and created a Linux-compatible library called OpenDWG. All this stems back to the need to reverse-engineer the DWG file format itself. " As frustrating as it is, those are the options right now for CAD on Linux: non-free software that supports DWG, or free software that doesn't. He goes on to look at some of the alternatives. Software CAD still has a long way to go, but for now DraftSight offers Linux that can read and write the industry-standard. Source, it is the first professional-level package available for free on The zero-cost-but-proprietary beta release of DraftSight, computer-aidedÄesign (CAD) software for Linux.
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