I used Draftsight for many years for television facility design. The macro language was wonderful! I used it to tie into excel & other programs, to manage cable lists, BOMs, and other needed documentation. I could make a change in one, and it would flow into the others. Then Autodesk bought them. They re-released it as AutoSketch, but without the macro language. The rumor at the time was that it was hurting Autocad sales & use of Autolisp.
Ray M. --J. Ray Mitchell Jr. [email protected] (818)324-7573 The dogmas of the quiet past, are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew. We must disenthrall ourselves, and then we shall save our country.*Abraham Lincoln <http://www.quotationspage.com/quotes/Abraham_Lincoln/>*, *Annual message to Congress, December 1, 1862* *16th president of US (1809 - 1865)* On Sat, Sep 19, 2015 at 5:11 AM, Belli Button <[email protected]> wrote: > Draftsight used be available in Win, Mac and Linux. They eventually dropped > the Linux version due to very small uptake and it was free! > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Lester Caine [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: 19 September 2015 10:13 > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [Emc-users] CAD/CAM for LinuxCNC > > On 19/09/15 04:44, John Dammeyer wrote: > > My war story is 5 versions of TurboCAD before I finally realized I was > > caught into the updates were really bug fixes under the presentation of > > improvements and nothing worked right. I started with Version 1. > Stopped > > buying it at Version 5 and I think at one point they were at version > > 12 or something. > > I'm still on 15 ... but only had 12 before that ... after jumping off the > AutoCAD roundabout. > > > Autocad for me was always a disaster. Just couldn't get my head around > it. > > My AutoCAD 2.5 dongle surfaced a while back and we used that up to > Release13 but with cash flow tight and I think a £600 bill for next 'bug > fix' it was time to get of the roundabout. £200 for TurboCAD Pro proved a > good investment at the time. > > People have mentioned 'cross-platform, and we have Eclipse for code > development and Libreoffice for the rest of the paperwork which have been > more than capable across all platforms for many years now. The likes of > FreeCAD and KiCAD could just as easily be run on windows, so perhaps the > question is 'Why not a windows version of LinuxCNC?' I'm thinking as more > of > a replacement for the likes of USBCNC using co-processors, but the > co-processor could well be a beagleboard or something similar running > LinucCNC in textmode and using the 'PC' for the graphics? > > -- > Lester Caine - G8HFL > ----------------------------- > Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact > L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - > http://enquirysolve.com/ Model Engineers Digital Workshop - > http://medw.co.uk Rainbow Digital Media - http://rainbowdigitalmedia.co.uk > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > -- > _______________________________________________ > Emc-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > _______________________________________________ > Emc-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
