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I still use QCAD's dxflib for reading and writing DXF files in other
applications, but I've switched to DraftSight for day-to-day 2D CAD.

-- 
Roger Williams <roger AT qux DOT com>
Chief Technical Officer, Qux Corporation

On 28 Feb 2015, at 10:49, Kai-Martin Knaak <kmk AT familieknaak DOT de> wrote:

> John Griessen wrote:
> 
>> Maybe I should try LibreCAD too, but Solvespace is really good.
> 
> Well, libreCAD is a fork of Qcad. If Qcad did not fit your bill, 
> libreCAD probably won't either. While got quite a bit of developer 
> attention since the fork, it still sticks to the same UI paradigm.
> 
> I too feel the phantom pain of the absence of a mature open sourced 3D 
> CAD suit. Even 2D CAD is traditionally weak. I did 2D CAD drawings  
> with xfig during the 90's. During the time I had to use win2k at the 
> day job I turned to CorelDraw. Back to linux I decided to bite the 
> bullet and switch to Varicad for mechanical 3D CAD. Although this is 
> not open sourced, it at least runs natively on linux. The UI is fine, 
> feature set is decent and prices are quite competitive. 
> 
> That said, I will gladly switch to freeCAD as soon as this suite 
> starts to get end user friendly. I check about once a year and they 
> keep getting closer :-)
> 
> ---<)kaimartin(>---