First Impressions?

[CorBlimeyLimey]

OK, I'll start the ball rolling ...

I will probably never use it, because I have SolidWorks. But for the few minutes I've played with it, it's definitely better than DWGeditor/2D Editor.

What are your first impressions?

 

[ArminB]

okay I uploaded the new version and it seems to work fine....you know, I'm looking for a affordable cad solution because updating autocad won't work for me. I was thinking about getting into rhino, before draftsight caught my attention. is it a real alternative? what does the professional users think about it?

 

[AnnaWood]

We use it where we work. It is a very good AutoCAD clone. One of the better one's out there.

Anna Wood
SW2011 SP4, Windows 7 x64

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[trendgineering]

By far the best AutoCAD LT clone available, and even better that it is free.

Still a few display and screen quality issues, and it is rather resource hungry. And there are issues with viewing, navigating and importing drawing borders into Paperspace (more about that separately).

But on the whole, a very good open source program, very intuative, and familiar.

 

[MikeHalloran]

Draftsight works almost like AutoCAD.
Rhino does things differently, and in some cases much better.


Mike Halloran
Pembroke Pines, FL, USA

 

[DiegoLGraves]

Badgerdave, I'm already saving in R2000-2002 for our laser nesting program. But thanks for the tip. The customer file was dwg from a current or recent Inventor release.

Thanks, Diego.