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  From: David Creed <dcreed@bsal.com.au>
  To  : <steve@smartfab.com.au>
  Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2003 08:23:45 +1030

Re: Used any good free CAD programs?

steve wrote:
>>On Thu, 2003-12-18 at 00:48, Peter Gossner wrote:
>>
>>>On 18 Dec 2003 00:28:29 +1030  tnomail <tnomail@stuarths.sa.edu.au>
>>>wrote:
>>>
>>>>I have played around with autocad a little bit over the years and am
>>>>looking for something without a 3 year learning curve. :-)  Basic 2D
>>>>drawing is about my level.  I have tended to type autolisp more than
>>>>use menus if possible 'cause I am weird.
>>>
>>>hmm:  QCAD used to be OK 
>>>xfig is sort of quirky (old fashioned I guess)  but has it's own joys .
>>>
>>>There are a lot of 2D level apps about most of them get only so far.
>>>Others require Java (some particular version larger than hades) ..
>>>If you find a good one let us know..
>>>Meantime I always found qcad reasonable.. scaling aside.
> 
> 
> Somewhat OT : the latest release of blender is simply marvellous.
> Strictly 3D, but you can do reasonable 2D with it. Not 100% sure what
> your application is - if you want a drafting style app where you can
> manually enter dimensions, then blender can do that, but its not quite
> the same.
> 
> Most of my customers seem to use AutoCAD mechanical desktop, with the
> more sensible guys on Catia. Id love to get something running on Linux
> that does that job. I have played with the idea of going in from scratch
> with a C compiler (yeah OK, Im a masochist), till it occurred to me that
> maybe adding on hacks to blender might do the trick.  Next year maybe ..
> 
> I have heard that AutoCAD will never ever ever be ported up to Unix ,
> simply because 90% of it's codebase uses really dumb non-portable hacks
> deep into the undocumented parts of the WindowsAPI, to a point where
> even Wine has no idea what it's trying to achieve.
> 
> Anyone managed to get AutoCAD running under a full emulator, like VMWare
> or even bochs ?
> 
> SteveOC
> 
> 
> 
I've had AutoCAD working with VMWare and a couple of other CAD programs 
as well, Unigraphics and SolidEdge, started to play with bochs but never 
had any luck with it.
Interestingly AutoCAD used to have a version for Unix, version 10 I 
think, according to AutoDesk there just wasn't much demand for a couple 
of hundred dollar application to run on a multi thousand dollar workstation.

cheers,
David Creed

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