Robert Derman wrote:
Shane wrote:
I use the OO Draw program in total and utter preference to all the
"CAD" (computer Aided Drafting) programs for lots of one off 2D
drawings of circuit boards, parts schematics, buildings, construction
drawings etc.. etc....
I think it's brilliant - because it's more or less a no brainer to
use and it's really intuitive.
Granted tho that the OO Draw is not a FULL 3D engineering / drawing
and designing program like AUTOCAD, but in terms of being "almost
there" it's really sort of nearly there.
I'd like to see the OO DRAW program uprated into something similar to
or as good as the AutoCAD program.
A sort of "full on" drawing program.
Regards
Shane
This is something so different in purpose from an office productivity
suite that I suspect that it would require a forking of the code to
accomplish it. Since OOo is open source, this is possible. I doubt
that there would be any interest in Sun's developers or management in
doing this, that is why I mentioned a fork in the code. It seems more
to me like a project for engineering students who also are studying
programming, and might just be fed up with the obsene prices for
virtually all commercial CAD software, partictlarly AutoCAD. I myself
used to use a program called Generic CAD for doing circuit board
designs, but this was durring DOS days and they were bought-out and
destroyed by AutoCAD which I suspect had no desire to see a popular
priced CAD program on the market.
I'm sure there would be an interest in something like that if you could
find programmers and other people interested. My husband and father are
both machinists and use such things. Perhaps you could try to start
your own open source program based on Draw if you have, or can find
people who have the know how. I know that some of those programs cost
as much as, if not more than, a new car, so if there was a free version,
well, wow. That would be a project in itself. You could maybe create a
new program and call it Draft or something. If you're really serious
about it start trying to get intrest; raise an issue, start a blog, call
Leo Laporte, etc.......... Nothing is impossible........
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