Unfortunately this is an area where linux needs to make major inroads. lack of a decent cad package for linux is the only reason i have vmware and a w2k "guest" os installed in my suse 9.0 system. parametric solids, assemblies, detail drawings, surfacing, cam etc are back in the 18th century as far as linux is concerned. btw, before anyone complains, I am talking about "real" cad, not "design your porch" cad. A cad package must be capable of drawing a boat, a plane, a telescope, a space shuttle, a toilet, a submarine, a perfume bottle, a bicycle, an F1 car, a plastic fork and so on. That is an assembly, all the individual parts, all the solids, all the BOM's, all the solids and shells for fea analysis, all the surfaces for cnc machining etc etc... If a package can't do what solidworks, autocad or pro-engineer do at least as easily as swx, acad or pro-e, then it is not a "real" package. VX works does that, it used to run on a linux system, i have been trying to get them to restart linux support, but they need to hear from many more. Please "hit" them at www.Vx.com tia d. On Sunday 25 April 2004 18:01, DChristensen@theimg.net wrote:
You can find information about Qcad at www.ribbonsoft.com.
Qcad in earlier versions was available free for non-commercial use. It seems like a decent 2D drawing/design tool.
Dave
-----Original Message----- From: Doug McGarrett [mailto:dmcgarrett@optonline.net] Sent: Sunday, April 25, 2004 10:55 PM To: suse-linux-e Subject: Re: [SLE] Re: VariCAD, was [SLE] Epson Stylus Photo 2200
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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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.
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