On Wednesday 25 June 2014 15:14:02 you wrote:
> On 06/25/2014 02:40 PM, zxq9 wrote:
> > On Wednesday 25 June 2014 13:29:05 you wrote:
> >> Hi All,
> >> 
> >> I occasionally need to do some drafting.  About
> >> 25 years ago I knew AutoCad somewhat.  Currently,
> >> I need to do some minor landscape architecture.
> >> 
> > 
> > 	LibreCAD (not QCad)
> > 
> > LibreCAD should replace QCad for all intents and purposes. It was a fork
> > of
> > QCad that has grown into something much more interesting. I used to
> > package
> > it, but haven't had time to work on LibreCAD or packaging for a long time
> > (so my existing packages which would work on SL6 are way out of date).
> > Anyway, installing it from source (or packaging it) was a snap on Fedora
> > 14 and still should be rather easy.
> >
> 
> Thank you!
> 
> What do you think of this spin?
> 
> http://rpm.pbone.net/index.php3/stat/4/idpl/23356724/dir/redhat_el_6/com/lib
> recad-2.0.0rc1.git20130625-2.1.x86_64.rpm.html

Give it a whirl. Its nice that someone got v2 packaged for RHEL6! :-)

Build it from source and see if you like that better (probably a few bug fixes 
and new GUI tools or something). Anyway, don't be afraid of it. Its a pretty 
easy project to deal with, especially the new codebase, and the community is 
nice.