On 06/25/2014 04:29 PM, ToddAndMargo wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I occasionally need to do some drafting.  About
> ...
>     QCad Community Edition

Now that a more recent version is available in the community edition 
this gets my vote.  I have purchased several Pro licenses over the years 
from Ribbonsoft, and have done multiple large scale drawings (mostly 
electrical singe line diagrams and network diagrams) with it, even 
plotting on a 42 inch carriage HP DesignJet.  It's pretty basic in 
functionality, but works relatively well.  I do encourage you to buy the 
commercial "Pro" license, if for no other reason than to gain full .DWG 
and .SVG file format capabilities.

Do note that the QCAD DXF files can be a bit difficult to import into 
other CAD packages.

A feature list is at 
http://www.qcad.org/en/qcad-documentation/qcad-features and it's clearly 
marked which features are in the community edition and which require the 
purchase of the Pro edition.

The Community edition source is GPLv3 licensed, and is available as an 
archive of source or through github.