

In the the command window, I tested the LINE command. You can observe, from the image above, the similarities Draftsight has with AutoCAD. Schools can benefit from this, and I am sure someone who has learned to use this software won’t have much difficulties using AutoCAD. However, I can sense that there is a great advantage that comes with a free alternative, specially for educational purposes. I would like to say that prior to this experiment, I never felt the need to try out a free CAD software. However, if you are a beginner in CAD then it will take time to understand the user interface, commands, and other such aspects. Click Here to Get your copy of DraftsightĪt first sight, it looks similar to older versions of AutoCAD ( 2009 and previous) thus having a small learning curve for myself. I just downloaded it, and they sent me an email to activate my license, and I was informed in the same email that a community and free tutorials were available to help me start with this software. DraftSight claims to be the professional-grade, free CAD product that lets you create, edit, and view DWG files. While searching for a free AutoCAD alternative, the ability to to open DWG file is very important, because we want to be able to import and modify files created by AutoCAD. Therefore, this will show the benefits and disbenefits of using DraftSight. While we are discussing about the best replacement to AutoCAD, I would like to point out the set of experiment will be done on 2D exercises I already solved using AutoCAD. I am choosing to begin this set of experiments with DraftSight, which I recently installed and in my opinion is one of the best free and simple AutoCAD alternative. It does not store any personal data.While running the last series of 2D AutoCAD exercises, I felt it would be unfair to those who wanted to learn CAD but did not own the AutoCAD software. The cookie is set by the GDPR Cookie Consent plugin and is used to store whether or not user has consented to the use of cookies.

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