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Doug McGarrett writes:
About 3 years ago, there was a program that was supposed to be an AutoCad clone. When I followed the links, and
LinuxCAD
asked some questions, somebody told me it was so bad he would break the licence and send me a copy so I could prove it to myself. I didn't take him up on his offer, but I didn't buy the program either. I don't know if there has been something else, since. I would kind of like to know, so if you find out, please copy me in. I have no objection to actually paying money for programs that work, so long as the money is not ridiculous.
I have not used it, but have heard a lot of bad things about LinuxCAD.
From what I read it was buggy, and the company was charging to fix things. The review that I read the author was very very disappointed. I think that they put somewhere in their license agreement about not saying anything negative about the product.
BTW: If you're not familiar with AutoCad, it is probably the number one 2D drafting program, as well as the first. It takes a little getting used to, and a good reference book, which you get with the program. The Lite version came at a couple hundred dollars a few years ago, and would do anything the casual designer needed doing. Upgrades were in the ~$100 range. The full-up non- lite program is at about rev 14, I think, and sells for about $2K. But you could easily design a house with AutoCad Lite. (A friend built a fancy garage, with upstairs rooms, etc., using it.)
If anyone knows if any version of AC Lite runs reliably under some version of WINE, please tell me just how to do it!
At 23:57 08/05/2002 +0300, jaakko tamminen wrote:
Hi
I remember seeing a CAD that was for drawing houses for some time ago.
Now I can't seem to find it anymore... Anyone know what CAD that was?
Jaska.