Easy to use CAD / architectural design sw suggestions?

[Michael Costolo]

On 8/9/06, Seth Cohn <sethcohn at gnuhampshire.org> wrote:
> Not released for Linux (yet), but Sketchup (from Google) will likely
> be on Linux one of these days... Some people have tried using it with
> Wine now, with limited results. (Currently Win or OSX)
>
> If you haven't tried Sketchup yet, do.  It will spoil you for all
> other CAD type programs.

But Sketchup is almost entirely mouse oriented.  Perhaps there is a
way, but it is not particularly intuitive, to have it draw a line from
and to a specific coordinates by typing them in as you can do in, for
example, AutoCAD.  In Sketchup once you click the first point you can
specify the endpoint though.  But for things like drawing a circle,
you must click the center rather than specify it with the keys.

Its tutorials are neat, but I found it more than frustrating to draft
a recent project.  I went back to AutoCAD and it was done in a few
minutes.  No it isn't shiny and shaded like Sketchup, but the
machinist who has to make this part doesn't care.