#Librecad vs freecad for free
#Librecad vs freecad software

Three keys, especially where the enter key is very far away, is a huge issue in a workflow. It's a small detail, but incredibly important. In LibreCAD, I have to type 'li' then press 'enter'.

I can draw a line with 'li' and it immediately jumps to the line tool.

OOTB DWG which is a huge positive for users, even if it is from ODA.

Here are the (small) things which added up to give me that impression in QCAD compared to LibreCAD (please correct me if I am wrong): My initial impression is that QCAD seemed more mature, despite the evidence that it's a one-man band. I'd like to hear the other side of the story :)

Especially from the LibreCAD devs - the article I linked above basically said that 'QCAD has everything LibreCAD has and more, just use QCAD', and it seemed a little one-sided. I'm curious to know a modern comparison of QCAD and LibreCAD. Can somebody write what they know about it on the from the commit log, it seems you are right that QCAD's commit log seems to be one guy whereas LibreCAD has a bit more variety. The page probably also needs to mention Blender and FreeCAD's DXF (and to an extent, DWG in FreeCAD)'s support too. is there a reason you are using LibreCAD and not QCAD? I'm curious if you tried both, or if your usecase is such that it makes the differences negligible. This should be documented in the wiki so that new users get a good first can you try your large complex file in QCAD? I tried a few files (of small to medium complexity only) and QCAD worked well. I was looking for a more modern comparison (since this one in 2013: ) between QCAD and LibreCAD and came across this: - from my initial testing I seem to agree with the conclusions: that QCAD seems to have resolved its closed development model, and is actively maintained as well as has much more mature features (not to mention the most important one, which is out of the box DWG support). We should instead promote QCAD and LibreCAD.

#Librecad vs freecad for free

I used to use Draftsight too, but I think in the interest of the OSArch mission for free software, we should not mention Draftsight, NanoCAD, BricsCAD, or really any of the other proprietary alternatives. It's also a good way to cut funding from Autodesk, who have been milking it for far too long than is good for consumers. In my opinion, getting people off AutoCAD is a nice quick win for free software, so making this page well written and provide easy steps for people to switch is a high priority. Thanks for all the replies! I've posted what I've learned from this thread as well as my own experience here: I can open the urban plans provided by municipality of Vienna and work with them reasonably, which is quite ok.Worst case Autodesk provides a free viewer and converter to dxf, which is official, so theoretically better than for example archicad import. We worked with dxfs in the past, I've never had problems with receiving dxf from consultants on request.

#Librecad vs freecad software

Some sort of programming capability as lisp in autocad would obviously be a benefit, but as the only serious use of a drawing software nowadays is simple sketching over referenced plans I don't find it important. The other 95% of extra functions autocad has are principally useless. I really miss proper referencing and layout system. I prefer that it is strictly 2D, as I have in the 10 years of my autocad experience never seen anyone meaningfuly use 3D drawings. I worked with autocad and rhino extensively and learning librecad after that was very easy. I use librecad mainly to prepare drawings for laser cutting.It would be nice to know at what scale of project it has be used in.Īnd then of course, I'd love to know your usecase for using it! At work, I rarely, if ever, need to touch 2D drawings - it's either 3D models, or PDFs. It opened fine, but was laggy to pan around. Does it scale well? I have tried opening a DWG of a large project on LibreCAD, which couldn't be imported.automatically derived from BIM software, like Revit, Tekla, etc), so I'm not sure how much magic they are using compared to a 'natively authored DWG' which may use some tricky AutoCAD black box stuff. These are generally 'generated' DWGs (i.e. How do you deal with file compatibility? At the firm I work at, all consultants deliver DWGs (I do need to start an effort to change the contracts to specify DXF).What are your thoughts on it? Was it easy to learn? What are its biggest pros and cons over the obvious elephant in the room, like AutoCAD?.but I'm looking for users who use it as part of their regular workflow). I'd love to know if anybody here is using LibreCAD (well, I know does, and I have touched it here and there.