FreeCad is a very promising free and portable CAD program. Unfortunately, it’s dependency chain is a bit messy, and building those libraries is not for the faint of heart. Normally, GNU/Linux distributions do a good job on that for you, but in Fedora, the packaging is not quite up to date. The included FreeCad 0.13 works, kinda, but there are crashes and bugs like missing text rendering in Draft mode. As FreeCad is progressing fast, it is useful to build the latest version, and here is how to do just that on Fedora 20.
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