[KLUG Members] A Windows Alternative? (For CAD)

[Dirk H Bartley]

adam@morrison-ind.com wrote:
> 
> Quoting bkatsma@attbi.com:
> 
> > http://www.cadenceweb.com/newsletter/mcad/0902_2.html
> >
> > Although there is no miraculous information in this
> > article concerning Linux and CAD, it does show that it
> > is out there and it is just around the corner.
> 
> It is nice to see a positive article on this topic, finally.  But I do love the
> quote "it can be freely downloaded, and apparently it can run as an independent
> operating system to Windows".  Apparently?

I also like seeing a positive article, but it is a little downplayed
by a mostly "windows world" person writing about availability of cad
software on linux and trying "linux capable" software from a win32
platform.
 
> 
> One package his misses is qcad.  It possibly isn't in the same league as the
> other packages he enumerates, but if all you need to do it look as AutoCAD files
> and maybe work with some floor plans (all 2d stuff) it is reasonably
> serviceable.  I took three years of drafting/CAD and was able to intuit how to
> do just about everything I needed.  And it has versions for both Win32 and Linux.

I always tell people here that I could replace everything but
autocad.  The following link
http://www.tech-edv.co.at/lunix/CADlinks.html
I will check out when I get more time.

> 
> qcad is to CAD much like what MySQL is to databases (needle needle ;).

Not needling me, they are what they are.

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