I mostly tested blocks, XREFs, layers, dimensions, tables – these are the features I usually find lacking in 2D software. The DraftSight system requirements are very modest (1 GHz x86 processor, 1GB of RAM (2GB recommended)) so my 3 GHz machine with 3 GB of RAM had no problem opening the largest DWG files I could find. I was secretly hoping it would install in my “Office” application list, but instead it went into the graphics area: Total installation time was less than three minutes. I double clicked on the download and the Ubuntu Software Center automatically took care of the rest. The installation on my Ubuntu 10.10 system was cake. The b is rather small, 68.8 Mb (I was surprised it was bigger than the Windows install – 55.5 Mb). (Who remembers trig anyway?) Now, thanks to DraftSight, I have DWG support in an interface nearly the same that I have been using since high school…all on my computer in my kitchen! QCad is a nice application, but since it doesn’t have DWG support I must admit I never used it for much more than helping my kids with their geometry homework. Until DraftSight, I mostly used “QCad” for my CAD editing software on Linux. You know I was quite excited when DraftSight for Linux was finally release last week. Free software than runs on a free operating system.
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