[cad-linux] Re: Welcome to CAD-LINUX

> Welcome aboard.

Thanks phrostie. After such a gracious welcome I though I'd briefly 
de-lurk and say hi. I use CAD non-commercially for designing 
interesting bicycles, telescope parts etc for building in a home 
workshop mostly - see  http://www.eland.org.uk/  for more. I also run 
a 'Cheap and free CAD' page at 

http://www.eland.org.uk/pages/Misc/cadnotes.html

which, while not Linux-specific, is relevent in parts and seems to 
get lots of hits :-). Needs an update soon...

I currently run Varicad 7.2 on Mandrake 9.0 on an old P233 laptop - 
it runs at a pretty decent speed even on some quite complex 
assemblies. I've been holding off upgrading to a more recent version 
of VariCAD until they sort out 3D import/export and rendering. They 
do seem to have tackled some of this at least partially in the latest 
version 9 which they've just released for Windows (and they've just 
revamped their website too BTW). Let's hope the Linux version 9 isn't 
too far behind. 

The Varicad-linux mailing list seems more or less dead BTW - no 
traffic for months - which is why I joined up here. Looking forward 
to some interesting discussions - now back to lurking ;-)

Cheers!

Peter
 


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Peter Eland
Editor and Publisher, Velo Vision: http://www.velovision.co.uk/
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Velo Vision magazine: Utne Independent Press Award nominee 2002
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