Solid Edge 2D Drafting

Solid Edge Free 2D Drafting

This is probably the best FREE 2D CAD software.

DESI-III

DESI-III is a freeware 2D CAD program running under the DOS operating system. It was written during 1980 - 2001 by Hugo Mariën. It has features needed for making two-dimensional technical drawings. The user interface is based on menus, and is translated into English, Dutch, French, German and Ukrainian.

DESI-III is a powerful and userfriendly 2D CAD system with a lot of profeesional features: associative hatching, dimensioning, associative text attributes to lines and symbols, multiple (up to hundreds) lines or line chains and curves. Automatic interruption of lines on user definable boundaries of symbols AND repairing if the symbols is moved or deleted. Adaptive and powerfull line pattern definitions, macro's etc....

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PowerDraw

Features:

• Using mouse actions or control methods to handle drawings.
• Drawing line, polyline, rectangle, polygon, bezier, circle, ellipse, arc, pie, chord and text on the Designer Canvas.
• Modifying the drawed figures.
• Using layers and layer operations like merging.
• Using all colors possible.
• Using different style of pens with diffrent widths.
• Using different style of brushes (including hatches) to paint drawings.
• Creating text objects with any font installed in the system.
• Saving the drawing as file and opening the file as drawing.
• Printing the file to the printer and/or plotter.
• Making unlimited Undo.
• Cutting, copying, pasting and deleting the figures.
• Grouping and ungrouping the figures.
• Ordering the figures (SendToBack, BringToFront, etc.)
• Rotating, scaling and mirroring the figures.
• Making polar and rectangular figure arrays.
• Aligning the figures in any style.
• Inserting bitmaps or jpeg pictures to the drawing.
• Scaling, rotating, mirroring,skewing and flipping bitmaps.
• Inserting WMF/EMF files as editable objects.
• Exporting the drawing as WMF file.
• Using plugins developed as DLL in a special structure(documented).
• Making macros in pascal-like language and running them in the designer.
• Using trace guides(in several angles) when drawing.
• Zooming and panning, viewing the drawing in any scale.
• Using page formats like (A4,letter, etc.) or custom sizes.
• Making block from figures and adding it to the librarry.
• Using block librarries, inserting blocks.
• Snapping the mouse actions to grids, guidelines or the current objects.
• Using grids and guidelines.
• Using vertical and horizontal rulers.

HYCAD is an user friendly 2D CAD program, green and small but powerful. It can export multiple format files,such as BMP JPG PNG DXF XMG WMF EMF DWG EPS SLD CGM SVG PDF etc. It is easy to be learn and use.

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A9CAD

A9CAD is a general purpose two-dimensional CAD program. It supports industry standard DWG & DXF drawing formats.

• 2-dimensional CAD drawing viewing and editing.
• Support DWG and DXF format up to DWG/DXF 2000.
• Familiar Windows graphical user interface.
• Command window to input coordinates.
• View and edit entity attributes via properties window.

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CAD X11® Free is a general CAD system ideally suited for drafting (strengths in mechanical drafting) and light wireframe and surfacing modeling on Windows XP, 2000, NT 4.0, ME, 98 or 95.
CAD X11® include 3-D wireframe modeling, surfacing, OpenGL, Direct3D and Gouraud smooth shading, custom IGES and DXF, 2-D drafting with ANSI, ISO and JIS dimensioning, geometric tolerancing, TrueType Font support, undo/redo, multiple views, data verification, geometric analysis, crosshatching, layering, CGM format I/O, PDF output, Gerber format I/O and on-line HELP.
All drafting features of CAD X11® Professional are supported making this free version a production class CAD tool for any company.  This software can be completely standalone supporting several drafting standards, files up to 500 kb in size and outputting the results onto Windows based printers or into PDF files.  Or, CAD X11® FREE can be intermixed with other CAD software via the DXF CAD communication format.
This is truly a free program, no time limits and it can be used for commercial purposes.

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CAD X11 Features

BlueCAD 1.0 features

Features:

• 2D CAD System.
• User friendly graphical interface.
• Drag&drop and clipboard support.
• More than 100 commands:
  • Creation of a complete set of drawing entities such segments, circles, hatchings, texts, dimensions, blocks and splines.
  • Editing as trimming, chamfering and partial deletion.
  • Geometrical transformations as translation, rotation, mirroring and stretching.
  • Managing attributes as color, line type, line thickness, level and a wide range of text attributes, dimension attributes and hatching attributes.
  • Performing viewing operations such enlargement, reduction, zooming, either within a single window or multiple viewports.
• Contextual menus.
• Associative dimensioning.
• Layers and blocks management.
• Basic block libraries.
• Snap to graphical entities main points.
• Grid.
• Complete on-line help system.
• Print management: all the operating system compatible formats.
• Input/output from/to other CAD products using DXF format (up to version 12).
• Reading BMP, GIF, PCX, TIF, TGA, XBM, IAX, IMG formats.
• Scientific Calculator with interpreter of formulas.
• Programmable using C/C++ (Windows) or REXX (OS/2) language.

DOUBLE CAD

DoubleCAD XT is a great companion with AutoCAD -- and if you are a Google SketchUp user wanting to go from concept-to-construction drawings -- or have an older copy of AutoCAD LT that can't read the latest AutoCAD files -- DoubleCAD XT is an invaluable companion to SketchUp and AutoCAD LT, too.

With so many new, innovative features, you might even think DoubleCAD XT is an upgrade for AutoCAD LT:

• Better drafting
• Better detailing
• Self-healing walls (ADT compatible)
• Self-aligning blocks
• Transparent fills
• Draw order by layer
• Bezier curves
• Flatten 3D to 2D views
• Hatch pattern editor
• Advanced polyline editing
• Automatic scaling of units between drawings
• Parametric variable palette
• Embed/bind image files in drawing
• Input multiple unit types on-the-fly
• Snap prioritization
• Brush editor
• Smart dimensions
• Special line, arc, and circle tools
• Multiline and fixed ratio ellipses tools
• Meet-Two-Lines and Convert-to-Curve modify tools
• Import xrefs
• Superior workflow with Google™ SketchUp™ and SketchUp™ Pro (including new v7)
• Open & save .DWG, .DXF, and .DWF formats from AutoCAD® R14 to 2009

... and more

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