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Nostregar
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My question is a pretty simple one: does anybody know of a decent and free 2D CAD program? I only need to be able to use it to edit existing files, and even then it's really only going to be to fix formatting on text boxes and such.
I know there are a lot of free ones out there, but I was wondering if there are any that are really good or, alternatively, really bad.
I know there are a lot of free ones out there, but I was wondering if there are any that are really good or, alternatively, really bad.
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Do you need a 2D CAD program or an image editing program? There's the GIMP for image editing.
Will root around as well and let you know if I find anything, Nostregar.
Well, since it may help here is the situation:
I work for a translation company and among other things we translate the text on CAD drawings. The person doing the actual translation has regular CAD software and that's not a problem. It's just that when we get it back from him, some of the text formatting isn't quite right and doesn't fit inside the boxes anymore. So, we just need a program that will let us open the CAD file and tweak the text formatting - that's it. It isn't really worth the money to buy a CAD program since we don't need much functionality out of it.
Also, thanks Mully!
The primary problem will be how well they support the dwg and dxf file formats, and if they even render the text the same ( font, etc ).
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