The keyboard commands seem to be the same as Draftsight & Autocad LT. The quirks have been reasonably straight forward to sort out with the built-in help function & I have managed to complete all the drawings I have needed to do on it. It has it's quirks & won't draw lines tangent-to-tangent between two circles, but it was reasonably straight forward to configure the interface to look basically the same as I had Draftsight set, which in turn was basically the way I used to have Autocad LT set at my previous employment. I settled on Nanocad, which has been fine with the older drawings. I tried Librecad & Qcad when Draftsight stopped working, but neither would reliably open the drawings I had done previously with Draftsight. I like the sound of LibreCad and wonder if anyone on this forum has used it Why not give it a go - it won't cost you anything and you do not have to sign up / register or any of that hassle, the rest of the ' Libre ' suite is excellent by the way if you haven't used any of them before! I can't personally comment on its limitations as I've never used it to its limits as I tend to prefer cutting metal to drawing. Hence it would be very difficult to pick up if you had no previous experience.
The one down side is that documentation is quite limited and via Wiki. It works quite well for basic stuff and has a recognisable interface similar to other products. I like the sound of LibreCad and wonder if anyone on this forum has used it and would like to offer some comment on their experiences?
Update draftsight full#
I don't want to fork out the $$$ for the full license, and AutoCadLT, while cheaper, may not have the functionality I am accustomed to, so I need something that will allow me to still access the collection of dwg files I have created over the years.
Update draftsight license#
I've been a satisfied AutoCad 2016 user under an educational license (therefore free) but my eligibility for the free educational license has recently changed as I am no longer involved in teaching. It seems very strange to push out a 12 year old program in this way
Update draftsight install#
It dates from 2008 - trying it under Wine sees it mostly install tho with a couple of failures - it does suggest that a more up to date version be loaded - it also requires an internet connection + email to register + receive an authorisation code - so up to you whether you want to risk it - I tried on my fairly safe + non-internet connected Linux running Wine 5 to see what happens if you try to recover from an error - it then seems to need access to an actual Win98 system disk. George, If it downloaded try to run it in compatibility mode. got message 'this version will not work on this system' I am running WIN 10 I've just come across ProgeCAD Free, anyone know if it is any good?ĭownloaded.
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