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Nanocad vs librecad12/4/2023 Well, QCAD is your quintessential open sourced software, in that the dev's were smarter than anyone else and created an interface that they thought was the best. I had played with QCADD, and it seemed okay, so I sprung for the paid edition which can read and write dwg files. It's Russian software and I'm not super comfortable having it installed on my computer. That, and our electric/hydraulic/pneumatic schemes are still in transition to the 3D version we developped on SolidWorks, but most of them are done, there's just the less frequent ones that haven't been converted yet.Įdit: Added screenshot of a 3D scheme because people often ask what it looks like. Everything is pretty much converted now, the only things not converted are trailers that were made before we transitionned to 3D, and that's not gonna happen, so that's where VMWare comes in most of the time. Yeah there is definetly these risks but we've kind of covered those by transitionning to 3D. Two weeks with our factory not having access to drawings was enough shock to get it thru. The old in house, unsupported drawing viewer running on a 25 year Linux box ran out of resources and couldn't be repaired easily. That's essential how we got management to approve the purchase of PDM after asking for years. Also there is the chance something stops working and you are in disaster recovery mode. Eventually the support becomes too great and expensive. Jcapriotti wrote: ↑ Thu 1:58 We definitely do the same here with some older programs. Whoever took care of implementing it was a Solid CAD Admin, and no it wasn't me! We had a pretty friggin' sweet setup on AutoCAD. ![]() For example, we can still push right now from ACAD 2K to our ERP, but we couldn't with DraftSight. The other thing that was kept in mind was that users were familiar with it, and that there were macros developed for it, whereas with Draftsight our macros did not work. It certainly did at first, but I'm pretty sure we would have forked more money on Draftsight in the long-run, whereas the option we went with was a one time thing. Seems like the cost of VMWare, servers, support, etc would outweigh the license cost wouldn't it? ![]() It's not free for SolidWorks to provide, its just a rebranded Ares Commander product and someone has to get paid.ĭraftSight is fairly inexpensive as far as CAD systems go. Yeah, back when it was free, I figured the day would come when it would turn to a pay model. We felt screwed when Draftsight became Pay for, so the boss prefered forking money over to any other program then Draftsight. We had the old ACad licenses sitting, so we put them to use. The company I work for prefered investing money in getting VMWare and XP licenses in order to run AutoCAD 2K rathern then pay for AutoCAD or pay for Draftsight. It wouldn't surprise me if in a average year I do no more than 4 hours of 2D AutoCAD work now days. I don't think anyone would argue no clone is a true substitute for true AutoCAD but the pricing is just silly now for what is basic 2D software. I'm just using NanoCAD rarely for modifying very old client drawings that aren't worth the time to model and generate new drawings in Solidworks - it's been fine for that. I have found it less hassle than Draftsight but I suppose it depends what you are doing. For instance, I'd rather launch VMWare, start a Windows XP and use AutoCAD 2000 rather then use NanoCAD. It's an okay viewer, but I would never ever work with it. I use NanoCAD also, it works 'okay', if I had to chose between previous Draftsight and NanoCAD I would go with Draftsight in a heartbeat. That would be no different to you using Kaspersky. I use NanoCAD and it is great, I suppose as Tom mentions if you were working on Military or classified sensitive government projects there could be some issues with using such a vendor. I never bothered learning it through tutorials, because eventually I was provided DS. When I lost my DS, and it wasn't bought for me ( grr!), I downloaded Siemens SolidEdge 2D to use as a reader, because its interface confused me a lot. I did try several others, but none were a true clone, and had their own new learning curves. In my opinion, it is ok for personal use at home but not for mil/gov work. Read it for yourself and make your own judgements. I never expect to pursue such a dispute, but we rejected it entirely because we can work on sensitive projects. NanoCAD has an exceptional EULA, iirc, where disputes are arbitrated by a Russian court because the software is written in Russia. However, I read End User License Agreements thoroughly because that's solely my responsibility here. That is, the same text shortcut commands that you're used to work equally, as well as the prompt order within a command. Best (USE) option that I found was NanoCAD because it is also an AutoCAD LT clone.
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