Doug McGarrett wrote:
I completely agree. Too bad SuSE chose it for me I guess. After checking
the DVD there doesn't appear to be much else on offer but I think InkScape, although a vector based program, will cater for these basic needs a little better.
Hey, AutoCad is not that easy either, altho it's easy to make circles, and it's vector-based also. I've used it to design prototype pcb's for almost 20 years, and I never went to school for it. I've been told that a clone for Linux exists, but that it's a pretty poor job, unless it has improved lately. If anybody knows, please advise the list.
There is something pro ported to be like AutoCAD for Linux that has extensive user critiques. Google is your friend :-) (un)-stated program no longer shows on SAL. Scientific Programming on Linux: http://sal.jyu.fi/E/2/index.shtml Neither does PythonCAD show on SAL. It is on the SuSE distros. OSS VariCAD talks to AutoCAD 2D, and does its own 3D very well. non-OSS Personally, I have
never seen a "drawing" program (as opposed to an engineering program) that I could learn to love. Nor, for that matter, some of the other engineering programs. One of the pcb programs that the professional layout guys were forced to use I did go briefly to school for, and resolved never, ever, to try and use it!
--doug