{"id":155,"date":"2011-08-18T20:13:03","date_gmt":"2011-08-18T19:13:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hilltop-cottage.info\/blogs\/adam\/?p=155"},"modified":"2011-08-18T20:14:10","modified_gmt":"2011-08-18T19:14:10","slug":"liking-librecad-free-cross-platform-2d-cad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hilltop-cottage.info\/blogs\/adam\/liking-librecad-free-cross-platform-2d-cad\/","title":{"rendered":"Liking LibreCAD &#8211; Free cross-platform 2D CAD"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;d been using <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cadlogic.com\/products\/draftit\/\" target=\"_blank\">DraftIT <\/a>for a number of years when I wanted to be able to work on plans using both my home computer (Win XP) and work laptop (Ubuntu Linux) while the family uses the home PC. After some searching, I came across what is now called <a href=\"http:\/\/librecad.org\/cms\/home.html\" target=\"_blank\">LibreCAD<\/a>. It takes a little while to adjust (I suppose this is always the case) but I must say &#8220;it works for me&#8221;. It isn&#8217;t too hard to pick it up by trying and it is possible to do simple stuff without having to understand everything it does.<\/p>\n<p>Best of all, it saves as DXF format, while this only comes with the &#8220;Pro&#8221; version of DraftIt which costs \u00a399.\u00a0 DXF is a de-facto standard so this makes the drawings more sharable and &#8211; maybe more important &#8211; gives me more confidence in being able to read\/alter drawings for longer (e.g. if the makers of DraftIT vanish).<\/p>\n<p>Recommended!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;d been using DraftIT for a number of years when I wanted to be able to work on plans using&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-model-engineering","category-workshop-notes","post-archive"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hilltop-cottage.info\/blogs\/adam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hilltop-cottage.info\/blogs\/adam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hilltop-cottage.info\/blogs\/adam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hilltop-cottage.info\/blogs\/adam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hilltop-cottage.info\/blogs\/adam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=155"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.hilltop-cottage.info\/blogs\/adam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":157,"href":"https:\/\/www.hilltop-cottage.info\/blogs\/adam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155\/revisions\/157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hilltop-cottage.info\/blogs\/adam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hilltop-cottage.info\/blogs\/adam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hilltop-cottage.info\/blogs\/adam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}