Arch tutorial suggestion: Draftsight no longer free

[Fredo_]

Hello everyone,

(I hope I found the right spot for this suggestion)

in the Arch tutorial in the wiki under preperation there is the suggestion to use Draftsight as a DWG preparation tool. When I went to get Draftsight I found out that there is no longer a free version available. Maybe it would be possible to remove that suggestion and maybe there is someone who can suggest a better (free) 2D CAD tool to prepare files for FreeCAD.

Thank you!

[ragohix769]

Hello everyone,

(I hope I found the right spot for this suggestion)

in the Arch tutorial in the wiki under preperation there is the suggestion to use Draftsight as a DWG preparation tool. When I went to get Draftsight I found out that there is no longer a free version available. Maybe it would be possible to remove that suggestion and maybe there is someone who can suggest a better (free) 2D CAD tool to prepare files for FreeCAD.

Thank you!

Now it's there the support of a new DWG import library ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LibreDWG ) other then ODA (but I never tried). Otherwise I suggest QCAD as good alternative. You have too a non free version financed effort to make a good support, but it cost couple of euros (i think under 30 bucks, and it's lifetime). The good thing is that with QCAD you can read the annotation in DWG files. If you import a DWG with free tools, normally, you have only geometry without any style. Another option is LIBRECAD https://librecad.org/, but the support for DWG (especially annotations) it's far far better with QCAD, for what I've seen, and for Librecad, sadly, there si near zero tutorials.