Recently I decided to
re-learn CAD (after 20 years) to help OSE in some way. After
reading all the posts in this tread, didn't see any
comments about DraftSight. This software was my choice to start, after
trying some of the softwares described at the CAD wiki:
(http://openfarmtech.org/wiki/CAD_tools) .
DraftSight is free,
works in Linux, Mac and Windows, is dwg native, and can export in
dxf and other formats. I can attest that it is ease do learn, at
least for easy 2D drawing.
I think that I can't
contribute to much with the standards discussions, as I'm just beginning again
with CAD, but I'm available to do some drawing (even the boring
ones!) as training, if I get access to standards and templates.
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