Anyone have a recommendation for 2D drafting software? I’ve used LibreCAD a little bit and it’s fine. Any other options I should be aware of?
Anyone have a recommendation for 2D drafting software? I’ve used LibreCAD a little bit and it’s fine. Any other options I should be aware of?
If you’re doing simple stuff, FreeCAD’s sketcher is pretty useful. It’s just not the best when you need to do a bunch of prints and large scale plan layouts. Autolisp is also a really slick system (with a ton of faults and disgusting quirks).
Anyone who’s used AutoCAD for a while gets used to Autolisp since literally every command is just a function call in the REPL, and you can write out procedures by just typing a short lisp routine out (or copy, pasting it from a text file like I’ve seen many drafters do).
FreeCAD has a lot of separate workbenches for different stuff, so I don’t know what OP’s “2D CAD” actually relates to, could be drawing a house or sheet metal. However, it does have a generic “drafting” workbench (that I have never used) that seems more 2D CAD oriented.
I’ve used it, and I wouldn’t really call it a replacement for AutoCAD. It can handle basic drafting, but the whole reason people want AutoCAD is because of the REPL. Drafting in AutoCAD kinda feels like drafting in Emacs.