[cad-linux] Re: qcad article

> i'd swear i've seen parts of this before, but it's a
> good read still
>
> http://www.linuxfocus.org/English/January2002/article132.shtml
>

I moved to Linux last August because a new employer sent me a computer 
(hardware and a box) and NO software. So I went Linux 'cuz it was free. But 
my migration from a Windoze user is still far from complete - I need to bring 
a friend over about once a month and it seems to take hours to do even simple 
things.

Of all the stuff out there on SourceForge / rpmfind / freshmeat, Q-CAD was 
only one of two programs I procured which actually installed (on Mandrake 
8.0) without interminable lib glitches and other insurmountable showstoppers 
(to me.) I'm just a download-it, double-click-to-install, press "OK," watch 
the install bar fill from left to right, close, and double-click-to-run kind 
of guy. My job is a mechanical engineer, and I don't have much time to detour 
into a whole 'nother field of technical expertise without my own job output 
faltering.

Q-CAD has a weird way of saving DXF files - it can read in most (but not all) 
data from many AutoCAD 2000 and R14 drawings, but the 'DXF' files it 
generates can NOT be readily opened by AutoCAD or even SolidWorks.

Does anybody know if there's a version later than 1.4.6, released 24-Feb-2001?

GLL

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