With the December 31st expiration date quickly approaching, I decided to look around for some free alternatives to Draftsight.
I've settled on NanoCAD:
https://nanocad.com/products/nanoCAD/They offer a free version. It supports DWG format and has a very familiar and intuitive UI. I worry though that in a couple years I will be in the same boat again if they decide to go subscription only.
I also tried LibreCAD, which is FOSS but feels a little under-developed at the moment. Too bad its not getting as much love and attention as kiCAD yet. My main gripe is that the autosnap features are quite basic. They recommend snap to grid if you want to make straight lines. I can't remember that last time I enabled snap to grid in Draftsight. I found that I needed to resort to the command line often and perform mental math
to get my end points right.
Has anyone else tried these programs? What 2D CAD software do you plan to switch to for your hobby projects?