On Tue, 2007-09-25 at 20:02 +1200, Volker Kuhlmann wrote: > On Tue 25 Sep 2007 16:41:28 NZST +1200, Kerry wrote: > > > I'm looking into some CAD software for some work I'm doing. I need to do > > up some 2D architectural drawings of specific construction techniques. I > > need something that's fairly straight forward to learn and use but is > > precise down to 1mm. > > The outlook is bleak. If you can do with software meeting historic > standards you might be ok - for seriously making money, you're out of > luck. That's my reading of the superb discusion of the topic on NZLUG in > March. Thread: > http://www.linux.net.nz/pipermail/nzlug/2007-March/007964.html
Thanks for that link, yeah the outlook is rather bleak indeed if some of those threads are correct. What I need to do is show some diagrams of some construction methods so they can be engineer approval. I might go for some line drawings using GIMP - not to scale but I can get an approxomate which would be close enough. Interesting one of the posts touched on the point that floss does some things well ie: Apache. One of the reasons I took a long time moving (almost entirely) to linux is the lack of decent OCR software. Regards, Kerry
