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CADCraft, a free open-source drafting program in early development that opens and saves AutoCAD DXF and DWG drawings(github.com)

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- CADCraft is a drafting program for drawing building floor plans or part drawings. Like AutoCAD, it draws lines and dimensions by entering commands or placing points on the screen, and the development team describes it as a new implementation of AutoCAD. - The source says it can read and write DXF (Drawing Exchange Format, a public drawing format) in both ASCII and binary forms. Reading covers R12 through 2018, and writing produces the R2000 format. DWG, AutoCAD's native format, is opened through the open-source acadrust library for R13 through 2018 and saved in the R2000 format. - The source states that the project is still in early development and that objects not yet modeled are not preserved when saving. The claim that it runs fast and natively is the development team's own assertion. - The license is MIT or Apache-2.0, and the source says no account or subscription is required. It is introduced as running on macOS, Windows, Linux, FreeBSD and web browsers.
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O: Architecture and interior professionals who receive AutoCAD drawings can open DXF files without commercial software to check whether lines and dimensions appear as they should. X: The original text notes that SHX fonts cannot be read yet, so those characters are drawn with another installed font. If the appearance of text matters in a drawing, check this point first.
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