Comment 17 for bug 578400

On Sun, Feb 5, 2012 at 11:20 AM, chuckles <email address hidden> wrote:
> Thanks for the link.  I was insufficiently familiar with the SRU process
> to realize what the process was.  I was running off of your earlier post
> indicating you would prepare an SRU.  I installed your work-around and
> it appears to work.
>
> Interesting that the software is made freely available, but the
> instructions on how to use said software is not.  Most commercial
> releases make the documentation freely available in order to induce new
> customers to use it, or existing users to upgrade.
>
> I suppose I'll find some payware that works better than Qcad in that
> case.  I was finding it a difficult transition from AutoCAD even with
> the instructions.  Without them it isn't worth the effort.

An interesting project is librecad:

www.librecad.org

They're a semi-new fork of QCAD that ported it to qt4. However,
they're just starting on a manual and don't have DWG support yet (for
legal reasons). I'd keep on eye on them - they're actively working on
both issues and have been getting good reviews and feedback from
people. They're 1.0 version is in Ubuntu, but there 2.0 branch they
are developing is phenomenal. If it had 1) a manual, 2) DWG support,
and 3) python scripting support - I think it would be near commercial
quality. They're working on all three of those, so it's just a matter
of time...