I know there is at least one other person using the Epson Stylus Photo 2200 and Gimp. Please contact me off-list as I'd like to compare "notes." Thanks, Fred -- "The only secure Microsoft software is what's still shrink-wrapped in their warehouse..." (Forno)
On Fri, 2004-04-23 at 21:00, Fred Miller wrote:
I know there is at least one other person using the Epson Stylus Photo 2200 and Gimp. Please contact me off-list as I'd like to compare "notes."
Thanks,
Fred
... and please cc: me in your exchanges. :-) I have Epson 820 and 1270 printers, the latter for half-sized engineering drawings plots.
-- "The only secure Microsoft software is what's still shrink-wrapped in their warehouse..." (Forno)
On Saturday 24 April 2004 11:06 pm, Stanley Long wrote:
On Fri, 2004-04-23 at 21:00, Fred Miller wrote:
I know there is at least one other person using the Epson Stylus Photo 2200 and Gimp. Please contact me off-list as I'd like to compare "notes."
Thanks,
Fred
... and please cc: me in your exchanges. :-)
'All will be here, except for some samples of pics. gone private. :)
I have Epson 820 and 1270 printers, the latter for half-sized engineering drawings plots.
There are several printers from Epson that will do well with drawings, including those made for doing those. I'd own the Stylus Photo 9600 if I had the room for it and could afford it. :) This discussion proves that there are a lot of us who are trying to do high end graphics and photo production with Linux, and therefore there needs to be a LOT more effort put into this area. Fred -- "The only secure Microsoft software is what's still shrink-wrapped in their warehouse..." (Forno)
On Sat, 2004-04-24 at 19:56, Fred Miller wrote:
On Saturday 24 April 2004 11:06 pm, Stanley Long wrote:
On Fri, 2004-04-23 at 21:00, Fred Miller wrote:
I know there is at least one other person using the Epson Stylus Photo 2200 and Gimp. Please contact me off-list as I'd like to compare "notes."
Thanks,
Fred
... and please cc: me in your exchanges. :-)
'All will be here, except for some samples of pics. gone private. :)
I have Epson 820 and 1270 printers, the latter for half-sized engineering drawings plots.
There are several printers from Epson that will do well with drawings, including those made for doing those. I'd own the Stylus Photo 9600 if I had the room for it and could afford it. :)
This discussion proves that there are a lot of us who are trying to do high end graphics and photo production with Linux, and therefore there needs to be a LOT more effort put into this area.
Yep, I just took in a Calcomp ScanPlus 1000 (36" wide drawing scanner). I could assemble some little window-box w/ a scsi card for it, but prefer that it run from one of my window-less Linux workstations. Does the VueScan guy read this list? The "D" and "E" size construction project documents from my VariCAD go to an Oce' machine at http://www.digital-blueprint.com There are serious things being produced on Linux desktop machines.
Fred
-- "The only secure Microsoft software is what's still shrink-wrapped in their warehouse..." (Forno)
On Sunday 25 April 2004 1:26 am, Stanley Long wrote: [snip]
This discussion proves that there are a lot of us who are trying to do high end graphics and photo production with Linux, and therefore there needs to be a LOT more effort put into this area.
Yep, I just took in a Calcomp ScanPlus 1000 (36" wide drawing scanner).
Hehehehe.......nice!
I could assemble some little window-box w/ a scsi card for it, but prefer that it run from one of my window-less Linux workstations. Does the VueScan guy read this list?
'Don't know, but hope so.
The "D" and "E" size construction project documents from my VariCAD go to an Oce' machine at http://www.digital-blueprint.com
There are serious things being produced on Linux desktop machines.
Yes, there are, and I'm excited about the future! Gimp has come a long way. There's much that can be done with it, even though more than 8-bit won't be supported for AT LEAST a year from now, from what I've been told. Gimp is also VERY slow in sending images to the printer. Fred -- "The only secure Microsoft software is what's still shrink-wrapped in their warehouse..." (Forno)
At 09:26 PM 4/24/2004 -0800, Stanley Long wrote:
On Sat, 2004-04-24 at 19:56, Fred Miller wrote: /cut/ The "D" and "E" size construction project documents from my VariCAD go to an Oce' machine at http://www.digital-blueprint.com
There are serious things being produced on Linux desktop machines.
Please tell us what VariCAD is, what it costs, how it compares to AutoCad. I know that there was some kind of CAD program available two or three years ago that was supposed to be a clone of AutoCad, and one of the list people said it was so bad he would send me a copy so I could see for myself. I didn't take him up on it. It wasn't free, either, but that's a secondary consideration if the s/w will do what you need and not break the bank. I no longer have a lot of use for engineering CAD, being retired, but occasionally find I do a dwg. in AutoCad LT, which is all I need. --doug
Doug McGarrett wrote:
At 09:26 PM 4/24/2004 -0800, Stanley Long wrote:
On Sat, 2004-04-24 at 19:56, Fred Miller wrote:
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The "D" and "E" size construction project documents from my VariCAD go to an Oce' machine at http://www.digital-blueprint.com
There are serious things being produced on Linux desktop machines.
Please tell us what VariCAD is, what it costs, how it compares to AutoCad. I know that there was some kind of CAD program available two or three years ago that was supposed to be a clone of AutoCad, and one of the list people said it was so bad he would send me a copy so I could see for myself. I didn't take him up on it. It wasn't free, either, but that's a secondary consideration if the s/w will do what you need and not break the bank. I no longer have a lot of use for engineering CAD, being retired, but occasionally find I do a dwg. in AutoCad LT, which is all I need.
--doug
what about QCad -- Hans Krueger hans007@prexar.com registered Linux user 289023 "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety." -Benjamin Franklin
At 09:38 PM 4/25/2004 -0400, Hans Krueger wrote:
Doug McGarrett wrote:
At 09:26 PM 4/24/2004 -0800, Stanley Long wrote:
On Sat, 2004-04-24 at 19:56, Fred Miller wrote:
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/cut/
Please tell us what VariCAD is, what it costs, how it compares to AutoCad. I know that there was some kind of CAD program available two or three years ago that was supposed to be a clone of AutoCad, and one of the list people said it was so bad he would send me a copy so I could see for myself. I didn't take him up on it. It wasn't free, either, but that's a secondary consideration if the s/w will do what you need and not break the bank. I no longer have a lot of use for engineering CAD, being retired, but occasionally find I do a dwg. in AutoCad LT, which is all I need.
--doug
what about QCad
Well, what about QCad? Tell me, and the rest of the list. I know nothing about it, unless it was the program I was warned against.
--
Hans Krueger hans007@prexar.com
registered Linux user 289023
On Sunday 25 April 2004 03:11 pm, Doug McGarrett wrote:
At 09:26 PM 4/24/2004 -0800, Stanley Long wrote:
On Sat, 2004-04-24 at 19:56, Fred Miller wrote:
/cut/
The "D" and "E" size construction project documents from my VariCAD go to an Oce' machine at http://www.digital-blueprint.com
There are serious things being produced on Linux desktop machines.
Please tell us what VariCAD is, what it costs, how it compares to AutoCad.
VariCAD is a) about 400 bucks US b) a true solid modeler, sorta like Autodesk Inventor c) will generate dxf 2-D files, and 3-D iges and dwg files that are readable by autocad but not "importable" into autocad. So autocad cannot edit the files. d) rpms are available for SuSE and (I think) red hat. e) I use it about 4 hrs a day currently. It has it's good and bad points but I consider its best points to be 1. Price 2. Runs on linux 3. Relatively easy learning curve 4. Solids editing is fairly fast 5. Generates good files/drawings that can be easily used by a machine shop. Contact me off-list if you wish and I'll send you a .png picture of the kind of stuff I do with it so you can see if it may be of use. -- Tony Alfrey tonyalfrey@earthlink.net "I'd rather be sailing"
On Sun, 2004-04-25 at 19:36, Tony Alfrey wrote:
On Sunday 25 April 2004 03:11 pm, Doug McGarrett wrote:
At 09:26 PM 4/24/2004 -0800, Stanley Long wrote:
On Sat, 2004-04-24 at 19:56, Fred Miller wrote:
/cut/
The "D" and "E" size construction project documents from my VariCAD go to an Oce' machine at http://www.digital-blueprint.com
There are serious things being produced on Linux desktop machines.
Please tell us what VariCAD is, what it costs, how it compares to AutoCad.
VariCAD is http://www.varicad.com from some guys in the Czech Republic a) about 400 bucks US b) a true solid modeler, sorta like Autodesk Inventor They rather look down on those who still do 2D architectural stuff :-)
c) will generate dxf 2-D files, and 3-D iges and dwg files that are readable by autocad but not "importable" into autocad. So autocad cannot edit the files. My 2D power/lighting building floor plans.dwg do OK at most architects offices, but they were generated as 2D, not 3D.
VariCAD doesn't really handle AutoCad viewport features well. It uses a different system for text, so one needs to pay attention and sometimes manually reset the text widths.
d) rpms are available for SuSE and (I think) red hat. e) I use it about 4 hrs a day currently. It has it's good and bad points but I consider its best points to be
1. Price 2. Runs on linux 3. Relatively easy learning curve 4. Solids editing is fairly fast 5. Generates good files/drawings that can be easily used by a machine shop.
Contact me off-list if you wish and I'll send you a .png picture of the kind of stuff I do with it so you can see if it may be of use.
... me, too :-)
-- Tony Alfrey tonyalfrey@earthlink.net "I'd rather be sailing"
On Sun, 2004-04-25 at 23:36, Tony Alfrey wrote:
On Sunday 25 April 2004 03:11 pm, Doug McGarrett wrote:
At 09:26 PM 4/24/2004 -0800, Stanley Long wrote:
On Sat, 2004-04-24 at 19:56, Fred Miller wrote:
/cut/
The "D" and "E" size construction project documents from my VariCAD go to an Oce' machine at http://www.digital-blueprint.com
There are serious things being produced on Linux desktop machines.
Please tell us what VariCAD is, what it costs, how it compares to AutoCad.
VariCAD is a) about 400 bucks US b) a true solid modeler, sorta like Autodesk Inventor c) will generate dxf 2-D files, and 3-D iges and dwg files that are readable by autocad but not "importable" into autocad. So autocad cannot edit the files. d) rpms are available for SuSE and (I think) red hat. e) I use it about 4 hrs a day currently. It has it's good and bad points but I consider its best points to be
1. Price 2. Runs on linux 3. Relatively easy learning curve 4. Solids editing is fairly fast 5. Generates good files/drawings that can be easily used by a machine shop.
Is the .IGES translator good enough for the like of WorkNC *horribly fussy)? Mike
On Monday 26 April 2004 03:28 am, Mike McMullin wrote:
On Sun, 2004-04-25 at 23:36, Tony Alfrey wrote: <snip>
VariCAD is a) about 400 bucks US b) a true solid modeler, sorta like Autodesk Inventor c) will generate dxf 2-D files, and 3-D iges and dwg files that are readable by autocad but not "importable" into autocad. So autocad cannot edit the files. <snip>
Is the .IGES translator good enough for the like of WorkNC *horribly fussy)?
Mike
Ummm, I don't know what you mean. I usually provide the 2-D dxf file and the solid iges file to my machine shop. Then, if I forget a dimension on the dxf, they pull up the iges solid to measure the part. The translator works 99% of the time and VariCAD is working on a new kernel that is supposed to fix a variety of small annoyances.. -- Tony Alfrey tonyalfrey@earthlink.net "I'd rather be sailing"
On Mon, 2004-04-26 at 08:44, Tony Alfrey wrote:
On Monday 26 April 2004 03:28 am, Mike McMullin wrote:
On Sun, 2004-04-25 at 23:36, Tony Alfrey wrote: <snip>
VariCAD is a) about 400 bucks US b) a true solid modeler, sorta like Autodesk Inventor c) will generate dxf 2-D files, and 3-D iges and dwg files that are readable by autocad but not "importable" into autocad. So autocad cannot edit the files. <snip>
Is the .IGES translator good enough for the like of WorkNC *horribly fussy)?
Mike
Ummm, I don't know what you mean. I usually provide the 2-D dxf file and the solid iges file to my machine shop. Then, if I forget a dimension on the dxf, they pull up the iges solid to measure the part. The translator works 99% of the time and VariCAD is working on a new kernel that is supposed to fix a variety of small annoyances..
We use WorkNC at work, and it's not the greatest in terms of importing IGES files put out by Unigraphics. We get a lot of mangled surfaces, and holes where there shold be any. Needless to say, holes make for damaged cutters. :( Mike
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