it ran with no tweaks of any kind on my debian/sarge. easiest install i've had in a long time. played with it a little. i have not even looked at the manual/docs, any chance you could post your bablefish results? how many pages? On Friday 27 June 2003 21:13, you wrote: > I hope that I don't insert my foot in my mouth too much here, but here > goes: > The author seems to be concentrating on an application that interests me > a lot- a CAM program(it generates G-code for cnc machinery). He > already has a commercial product called WinAPT that is similar. I have > been in contact with the author and he says that he and another > programmer are working on wire EDM modules to begin with. The CAD part > of the program is going to be free, with the post processors for CAM > being commercial. The author is German, so a lot of the menu items are > in German. I have been playing with the program with the Bablefish > translator handy (cut and paste menu items to convert to English). It > seemed to run with no major problems in RH 8.0, although I had to change > permissions of some files that were set to root. > > Thanks, > Dan > > phrostie wrote: > > i have not had time to so much as download it, but the screenshots look > > good. does anyone else know anything about it? > > the latest version was released yesterday and i found the annoucement on > > linuxtoday. > > gCAD3D-0.70.tar.gz (2003-06-25) > > http://linuxtoday.com/developer/2003062701126NWGNRL > > > > gCAD3D 3D - CADCAM - software for Linux > > http://www.cadcam.co.at/freiter/gCAD3D.htm > > http://www.gnome.org/softwaremap/projects/gcad3d > > > > License: > > gCAD3D is free software under the GNU-LGPL. > > See http://www.opensource.org/licenses/lgpl-license. -- Oh i've slipped the surly bonds of DOS and danced the skies on Linux silvered wings. http://pfrostie.freeservers.com/cad-tastrafy/ //www.freelists.org/webpage/cad-linux