On Mon, Sep 12, 2005 at 12:27:19PM -0400, Marvin Dickens wrote: > On Monday 12 September 2005 06:29 am, Kovács Levente wrote: > > On Tue, 06 Sep 2005 00:11:50 -0400 > > > > Dan McMahill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I'm not able to suggest alternatives, but I'm curious, what is the > > > problem with qcad? > > > > It segfaults when you turn on the grid... at least for me on Debian > > stable. And the UI is a little bit awkward... > > > > However, this is the only tool for free... :-( > > > > Levente > > QCAD does not segfault for us when we turn on the grid (We are using > SuSE 9.2 and 9.3). In fact, it performs as advertised and is a good > 2D CAD package. We use QCAD in our design flow and further, like it. > It is easy to use and the UI is not as bad as a lot of 2D CAD packages > that I've seen that cost $. The output is excellent and to scale if you > use a printer that is designed to print with a high degree of accuracy > (In other words, the output is as good as the printer that is used to > produce the output). > > Our problem with CAD on Linux is that there are no viable 3D CAD > applications available except those that cost $. Our interest in 3D
BRL-CAD is not viable? For Ronja it's viable: http://ronja.twibright.com/3d/ And BRL-CAD has special personality :) http://ronja.twibright.com/old_news.php ("Ronja employs BRL-CAD as 3D modeling tool") > CAD is for the purpose of modeling complex designs - Some of the > devices that we build are rather complex and the ability to see what > we have in 3D makes a real difference throughout the entire design > process. Currently, we are looking at purchasing Varicad which > appears, at least on the surface, to do a decent job at 3D. Most likely, > we will be purchasing a couples of Varicad seats before the end of the > month. After having learned it just a bit, I wouldn't step away from BRL-CAD now :) BRL-CAD simply rulez for me (and is GPL of course). CL<
