Q1: What's a good freeware PDF (or JPG) to DWG or DXF conversion program? Q2: What's a good freeware DWG (or DXF) CAD editing program?
I'm in need of a simple Windows DWG editor and a PDF-2-DWG conversion because I have a simple CAD drawing in DWG & another in PDF I wish to slightly modify.
Googling found this newsgroup had these discussions but they're all old:
06/12/2008 Simple CAD-type prog to edit DXF files, by Snapafun 04/08/2006 PDF to DWG or DXF Converter, by Thomas Friebe 10/24/2003 Freeware converting DWG/DXF into PDF, by Bernd Schmitt 10/02/2003 DXF Files, by H-Man 02/16/2003 DXF or DWG Viewer for Pocket PC, by NoSpam 08/17/2000 Autocad dwg and/or dxf viewer, by DwayneI have one DWG file and one PDF CAD drawing file I would like to edit.
Nowadays (2012), what freeware CAD drawing editor is recommended?
Googling, I found the following, but I know nothing about these. Do you?
- DiggFreeware "Free Open Source 2D CAD Software (DXF Viewer & Editor)"
- CNET DXF Editor from "CAD-KAS"
- TuCows "2D Viewer Editor: DWG DXF PLT TIFF CGM 8.0"
- AnyCAD Free Version 1.4 formatting link
- SolidWorks eDrawings Viewer (solidworks.com - might be just a viewer)
For the PDF to DWG converter, googling found the following.
- CAD Monkey (blog.cad-monkey.net) using Inkscape
- Ehow.com How to convert PDF to DXF With Freeware, using Aide PDF to DXF Converter
- Online free PDF2DXF converter formatting link
- FreeSharewareCenter.com PDF to DXF Converter (20 free trialware)
- anydwg.com/pdf-to-dxf.html Any PDF ot DXF Converter (30 free trialware)
But, before I go any route above, may I ask for updated information?
Q1: What's a good freeware PDF (or JPG) to DWG or DXF conversion program? Q2: What's a good freeware DWG (or DXF) CAD editing program?
A screenshot of the CAD drawing that needs editing is here:
I basically need to change the number of the squares on each side. What Windows freeware would you recommend for that purpose?