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John Griessen wrote:

> Maybe I should try LibreCAD too, but Solvespace is really good.

Well, libreCAD is a fork of Qcad. If Qcad did not fit your bill, 
libreCAD probably won't either. While got quite a bit of developer 
attention since the fork, it still sticks to the same UI paradigm.

I too feel the phantom pain of the absence of a mature open sourced 3D 
CAD suit. Even 2D CAD is traditionally weak. I did 2D CAD drawings  
with xfig during the 90's. During the time I had to use win2k at the 
day job I turned to CorelDraw. Back to linux I decided to bite the 
bullet and switch to Varicad for mechanical 3D CAD. Although this is 
not open sourced, it at least runs natively on linux. The UI is fine, 
feature set is decent and prices are quite competitive. 

That said, I will gladly switch to freeCAD as soon as this suite 
starts to get end user friendly. I check about once a year and they 
keep getting closer :-)

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