On 06/25/2014 04:29 PM, ToddAndMargo wrote:
Hi All,I occasionally need to do some drafting. About ... QCad Community Edition
Now that a more recent version is available in the community edition this gets my vote. I have purchased several Pro licenses over the years from Ribbonsoft, and have done multiple large scale drawings (mostly electrical singe line diagrams and network diagrams) with it, even plotting on a 42 inch carriage HP DesignJet. It's pretty basic in functionality, but works relatively well. I do encourage you to buy the commercial "Pro" license, if for no other reason than to gain full .DWG and .SVG file format capabilities.
Do note that the QCAD DXF files can be a bit difficult to import into other CAD packages.
A feature list is at http://www.qcad.org/en/qcad-documentation/qcad-features and it's clearly marked which features are in the community edition and which require the purchase of the Pro edition.
The Community edition source is GPLv3 licensed, and is available as an archive of source or through github.
