RE: [Sheflug] CAD package recommendations:

["Chris Johnson" <chris [at] xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> Eeks. Your alter ego has been looking to see what there is in the CAD
> market only a couple of days ago. The most promising looks like Qcad
> (http://www.ribbonsoft.com/qcad.html).  This only does 2-D
> visulisation;
> it's not a 3-D CAD package.
>
> All versions of QCad are free and GPL'd, however to get QCad
> 2.x in binary
> form, you need to pay over a little cash (about $30 => £20 or so, then
> there's a sliding upwards scale if you want other bits). The source is
> freely downloadable if you want to attack from that front :)
>
> Alternatively, QCad 1.x is still available, with binary and source
> packages and tarballs.
>
> Not sure what there is in the 3-D market; not a lot that I
> can see, but
> I'll probably seek again this eve.
>
> Chris...
>

I just had a look on the Suse YAST lists and Qcad 1.5 is there as is XTexCad
which seems quite limited.

Unless someone can suggest a 3d version I think QCad will suffice.  Looks
alot more complete.

Chris Johnson
(No not that one, the other one!)
(running SUSE 8.2, 512MB PIII 600 (ish))

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