On 3/5/2011 9:03 PM, Spehro Pefhany wrote:
On Sun, 6 Mar 2011 12:42:17 +0800, the renowned "Dennis"
wrote:

I'm sure this has been asked many a time....

I'm doing some work for a company that is currently doing their mechanical
dwgs using Microsoft Visio. It's slow, impractical and a *major* PITA to
use.

Ugh.

Most of the drawing are simply showing sheet metal layouts, hole locations
etc. A 2d package would be ok.


Has anyone found a open source or freeware package that is really usable.
I've used& really like SolidWorks but the company is small and
unwilling/unable to spent $100 let alone many thousands!

I've found a couple BRL-Cad and FreeCad - any experience anyone?

Thanks

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Best regards,
Spehro Pefhany


perhaps if you said what bothered you about visio? I've used it a lot,
though not for precision layouts and find it fast, very useful, and easy.

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