#Babacad vs qcad for free
#Babacad vs qcad software

#Babacad vs qcad for free

In my opinion, getting people off AutoCAD is a nice quick win for free software, so making this page well written and provide easy steps for people to switch is a high priority. Thanks for all the replies! I've posted what I've learned from this thread as well as my own experience here: I can open the urban plans provided by municipality of Vienna and work with them reasonably, which is quite ok.Worst case Autodesk provides a free viewer and converter to dxf, which is official, so theoretically better than for example archicad import. We worked with dxfs in the past, I've never had problems with receiving dxf from consultants on request.

#Babacad vs qcad software

Some sort of programming capability as lisp in autocad would obviously be a benefit, but as the only serious use of a drawing software nowadays is simple sketching over referenced plans I don't find it important. The other 95% of extra functions autocad has are principally useless.

I really miss proper referencing and layout system. I prefer that it is strictly 2D, as I have in the 10 years of my autocad experience never seen anyone meaningfuly use 3D drawings. I worked with autocad and rhino extensively and learning librecad after that was very easy.

I use librecad mainly to prepare drawings for laser cutting.

It would be nice to know at what scale of project it has be used in.ДЄnd then of course, I'd love to know your usecase for using it! At work, I rarely, if ever, need to touch 2D drawings - it's either 3D models, or PDFs. It opened fine, but was laggy to pan around.

Does it scale well? I have tried opening a DWG of a large project on LibreCAD, which couldn't be imported.

automatically derived from BIM software, like Revit, Tekla, etc), so I'm not sure how much magic they are using compared to a 'natively authored DWG' which may use some tricky AutoCAD black box stuff. These are generally 'generated' DWGs (i.e.

How do you deal with file compatibility? At the firm I work at, all consultants deliver DWGs (I do need to start an effort to change the contracts to specify DXF).

What are your thoughts on it? Was it easy to learn? What are its biggest pros and cons over the obvious elephant in the room, like AutoCAD?.

but I'm looking for users who use it as part of their regular workflow). I'd love to know if anybody here is using LibreCAD (well, I know does, and I have touched it here and there.