cavelamb himself wrote in
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Find me a decent CAD to replace my beloved Design CAD and I'll convert
to Linux. Or a way to run without it (Wine still needs Win).


http://www.tech-edv.co.at/lunix/CADlinks.html

Will these do? Sorry the list is so deep....(c;

I'm sure you'll find one of them, maybe the one you're using now, ported to
Linux, directly. You don't need WINE.....

Larry wrote:

cavelamb himself wrote in
m:


Find me a decent CAD to replace my beloved Design CAD and I'll convert
to Linux. Or a way to run without it (Wine still needs Win).



http://www.tech-edv.co.at/lunix/CADlinks.html

Will these do? Sorry the list is so deep....(c;

I'm sure you'll find one of them, maybe the one you're using now, ported to
Linux, directly. You don't need WINE.....



It will take a while to examine everything on that list!

ARCAD 3D ( http://www.arcad.de/ ) looks like it may have the features
(at 165 pounds sterling id better!?)

But most seem to be optimized for some particular type of service.

The true test is how a package handles curves in 3D.
I'm terribly spoiled on cubic splines.

I started out on AutoCAD version 10 (for over $8000!!!)
I didn't like it then - and still don't.
I've seen a few ACAD systems brought up to near the same level
via macros, but those generally don't come with the system.
And none of them have the gravity point select feature from DCad.

Design CAD has been around since the DOS days.
When I found it, I was floored at how much easier it was to use, and
how fast it ran.

But I've not seen anything that indicates any desire on the publisher's
part to port to Unix.

Which is (to my mind) rather short sighted!

http://www.imsidesign.com/Products/O...6/Default.aspx

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Richard

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cavelamb himself wrote in
m:

I started out on AutoCAD version 10 (for over $8000!!!)
I didn't like it then - and still don't.
I've seen a few ACAD systems brought up to near the same level
via macros, but those generally don't come with the system.
And none of them have the gravity point select feature from DCad.


We couldn't afford AutoCAD, and really didn't have a use for it, either.

But, the "inner circle" who ran the 14,400 baud computer club BBS I was a
member of, used to have several hidden-from-users little places where
various DOS softwares COULD, if one were to look, download some pretty
expensive stuff, like the absolute bleeding edge versions of AutoCAD that
made it onto those directories as if by magic, the very day the version was
released....(c;

Spending 14 hours downloading something amazing at 3AM on a workday didn't
seem that unusual, either!....(yawn).....

Lucky for them the soundcard and nice graphics card hadn't been invented
yet. We didn't have all the music and movies until years later.....(c;