autocad replacement?

[Kurt Granroth]

On Thursday 27 September 2001 01:04 pm, Thomas Mondoshawan Tate wrote:
> > But he uses autocad too much to loose windows.
> > Does anyone know any good autocad replacements?
>
> Hrm... Most seem to be in the development stage, but one stands out as a
> pretty good replacement. It's called QCad and specializes in 2D stuff
> exclusively. Thing is, it's commercial -- can't even get the demo of the
> durn thing free. That's not surprising considering how overrun the CAD
> software market is with commercialism.

Eh?  Maybe you are thinking of something else... QCad is GPLed (under Linux.. 
commercial under Windows).

QCad is indeed very nice looking.  I haven't used Autocad in over 10 years so 
I don't remember enough to be able to do a feature comparison.

http://www.qcad.org
Features: http://www.qcad.org/index.php3?body=features&product=qcad
Download: http://www.qcad.org/index.php3?body=download&product=qcad
Screenshots: http://www.qcad.org/index.php3?body=screenshots&product=qcad
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