Any decent free 2D CAD packages?

ajf · 6 Jul 2012 at 08:37

As title, can anyone suggest anything?
It's for a guy in the office who just does the very occassional drawing.

Found one called Draft IT, but not found any info on it other than its own site.

Thanks
Andrew

gazjam · 6 Jul 2012 at 11:09

Take a look at this mate, all you need.

progeCAD Smart!
http://www.progesoft.us/index.pl?id=3985;isa=Category;op=show

IF you wanna do 3D at all, take a look at Google Sketchup.

Raumarik · 6 Jul 2012 at 11:32

http://sourceforge.net/projects/free-cad/

3D mostly but probably does 2D well too. I've used Progecad in the past and it was fine though so gazjams on the ball there. Having AutoCAD support even if it's the older versions is very handy too.

gazjam · 6 Jul 2012 at 15:14

Thats FreeCad looks great.

Not saw a free [parametric modeller before - very cool.
Bit cheaper than the ProE I use!

Mr_Orange · 6 Jul 2012 at 15:16

Draftsite is what I would use. It's by the same guys who do solidworks and it can work with autocad files too.

http://www.3ds.com/products/draftsight/overview/

ajf · 7 Jul 2012 at 00:15

Thanks all, I will have a look at the suggestions and see which are suitable.
I know we can't use the Progecad one though as the free version is not for commercial use.

Andrew

Simian · 7 Jul 2012 at 09:28

If you only need to use it for a short period, just get the 30 trial of AutoCAD (or AutoCAD LT) both are the fully working, not limitations (not even a watermark on Plotting) for 30 days from first use!