Keep an eye on Draftsight (
http://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/dbkxi/free_autocad_clone_draftsight_coming_to_linux/
)
It's closed source, but it seems like that has something to do with the DWG
file format.
On 14 September 2010 16:53, Philip Trickett (List) <phil-ml at techworks.ie>wrote:
>>> On Tue, 2010-09-14 at 16:39 +0100, Gavin McCullagh wrote:
>> > Hi,
> >
> > On Tue, 14 Sep 2010, Lisa Muir wrote:
> >
> > > Have a friend looking to do floorplans to scale in a cad package, they
> > > use linux.
> > >
> > > Is there an opensource cad package that can be recommended for this
> > > usage which doesn't require 3D modelling etc??
> >
> > There is qcad, though I don't know enough about CAD to be able to
> > recommend it.
>> I'd recommend QCad for a simple system.
>> There is this though: http://www.linux.com/archive/articles/141073 looks
> quite good, and allows the viewing of the floorplan in 3D.
>> HTH,
>> Phil
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