Re: CAD on Linux?



Nicholas DePetrillo wrote:
On Wed, 08 Feb 2006 12:56:30 +0000, The Natural Philosopher wrote:

Been trying unsuccessfully to find a DECENT 2D CAD program that will run native on Linux.

Something akin to Turbocad would be fine.

Before anyone chimes in with 'use VMware and whatever you have' yes, thats the fall back position...

All the programs I have come up with to date are either noddy, flawed, or projects that appear to have died...

List em all, warts and all..

I've always used QCad:
http://www.ribbonsoft.com/qcad.html

Don't know if you've come across it yet, but it is worth a shot.

Yes..I downloaded it to try in Windoesn't..its is small in terms of the viewing window, and doesn't have - as far as I could tell - the ability to draw a scaled drawing. Or present scales along the viewport.

Apart from that it seemed 'adequate'
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