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:
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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.
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"