Good free autocad alternatives?

[fizzy]

Donating some of our old computers to my mates school in the Gambia. They want some cad software ideally for architectural work.
I bet there are loads of good free ones any suggestions?

 

[msmbus2000]

free cad?

 

[James1979]

Some of the big boys have charity foundations for things like this. Might be worth an ask from auto desk. They do education licenses for free.

 

[mtt.tr]

Best alternative ive found is the newer turbocad not free but certainly affordable

 

[graffian]

free cad?

I liked Freecad, I saw 2D drawings produced with it but was only interested in 3D.
It wasn't at all like Autocad, I thought the closest programme was Catia.
I had never really done anything more involved than drawing a simple object
with Catia, to see how Catia worked. But I was able to draw all the parts of an
advance retard mechanism in Freecad fairly easily.
That was in 2015 and the let down for me was mating parts didn't work for me.
A big plus, the reason I was looking at it, it works on Linux and Windows.

 

[waddycall]

Sim draftsight still free? That was the same as autocad.

 

[fizzy]

Some of the big boys have charity foundations for things like this. Might be worth an ask from auto desk. They do education licenses for free.

Yes it seems you can download an education type licence - I think I will go with that.
I have never liked autocad much - I will try freecad for myself.

 

[indy4x]

Most of Autodesks products are free for educational use, you do have to provide them with either an academic email address or some other form of ID such as a current student ID card

Once accepted by them you can install onto 2 devices and have to renew every year