I'd rather not get into the realms of dodgy software, and anyway, Autocad looks WAY to complex for what I need, which is simple a nice, simple free CAD package that allows plumbing to be shown.I've got 26 days of Autocad left, but I reckon it's going to take me that long to get the hang of it, and then what? I've learnt something I can't use!Found something on an old PC mag disk, but that doesn't seem to render anything on XP.Ta

Mate of mine at work has been using qcad, which costs all of 28 dollars- and the linux/unix source is downloadable for free. There is a demoversion which is fully functional but quits after 10 minutes.

Good free CAD with plumbing symbols?

Oct 26, 2005 21 Replies

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Doctor Drivel 20 years ago

No. It's a pain in the botty.

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John Cartmell 20 years ago

If you can lay your hands on an old 32-bit Acorn computer (even 10-15 year old machines are still adequate for the task - they were built to survive in schools & industry rather than cushy offices) the version of !Draw that comes free with every Acorn/RISC OS machine is good and very easy to use - though no built-in libraries I'm afraid. You could buy yourself a new RISC OS machine of course but that might be seen as contrary to the request of 'free'* software!

*No charge for the software but the computer will be 500 GBP. ;-)

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