DraftSight No Longer Free

thescullster 7 years ago

Hi Guys

Not sure how many users I have recommended this software to, but unfortunately DraftSight will be a paid for app from later this year.

No way am I complaining, I was amazed to find such a complete semi-pro drawing application available for free. Provided you didn't want support it was free for business users as well as non-commercial. Saved the company some money over the years, and me the admin of sorting licenses.

All good things etc...

If anyone knows of a similar AutoCAD LT clone that is freely available please let me know. The only down side is that you would get an alert when opening a Draftsight drawing in AutoCAD to say that it had been created using a non-genuine AutoCAD application (or some alert message very similar).

Just thought I would share.

Phil

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Andy Burns 7 years ago

nanoCAD? Draftsight for Linux or Mac?

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John Rumm 7 years ago

You can download a free version of Autocad fusion 360 for personal or educational use.

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dennis 7 years ago

Fusion360 any good for you? Its free for personal use.

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Dave Plowman (News) 7 years ago

I use it occasionally too, as it is compatible (in the main) with my favourite CAD prog (ProCAD+) which I paid for on this old RISC OS machine.

It's odd they've left it this late with 3D being the preferred version these days. Although I'm happy with 2D.

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Brian Gaff 7 years ago

A lot of this of course hs come about due to gdpr and the use of ad blockers on browsers. In the end no such thing as a free lunch and applications that gather data now have to tell you they do or be in breach of the law, and obviously many sites now stop you using them if you use an ad blocker leaving funding a problem, as they cannot harvest usage data and all the other stuff in secret any more. Brian

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Steve Walker 7 years ago

I have no problem with ads, but do object strongly to bandwidth and processor hogging, animated or video ones, pop-ups and pop-unders. I also prefer not to be tracked and am fed up of sites where you have to repeatedly opt-out, even when you visit a sub-page and those that require you to opt-out of every "associated" tracking company (often dozens) by visiting their websites individually.

SteveW

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