Marvin Dickens wrote: > Go back through this thread - We posted some of our experiences and > thoughts about Varicad.
Ok, found them. > Making the statement that it is doubtful that Alibre The statement was refering to varicad. > Exactly, what is the connection between > a company who demos their product in Flash > and their commitment to *any* particular operating system? Flash players are not readily available for some systems. In particular there is no native viewer in my distribution (debian) and macromedia fails to provide a plugin: http://www.macromedia.com/de/software/flashplayer/productinfo/systemreqs/ On second thought I searched a little harder and found a download page for an older version of the player. So I finally can view flash movies with mozilla based browsers :-) I decided to try the trial version of varicad. It needed a bit of admin persuasion to install. The package requires kdelibs4:3.3.2-6.4 but debian only provided kdelibs4:3.3.2-6.4 with sarge before they switched to kdelibs4c2a for etch. So I had to use "--foce-all" to get it installed anyway. Since I already have updated most of my system to etch I had to downgrade almost all my k-Windows apps. Luckily my desktop is based on gnome... >From what I have seen yet, the GUI of varicad is quite intuitive. Much better than the autacad clones I have seen before. Working with 3D is easier than 2D with qcad (!). I think, I will shell out the money for a license and hope that the program does "as advertised" :-) ---<(kaimartin)>---- -- Kai-Martin Knaak [EMAIL PROTECTED] Blog: http://lilalaser.dyndns.org/blog
