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MEPIS Rules!   Joined: Wed Jul 27, 2011 2:57 pm Posts: 146 Location: Atlanta GA USA Has thanked: 53 times Have thanks: 18 times 
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 CAD software discussionTrying to get some input on who uses which CAD software and how it works for you.
I've found a lot of good resources for CAD software in the wiki. While I, for now, have settled on FreeCAD, it was because I thought it was the best I would be able to find for Linux. I finally got one version installed that appears to be working properly and will try another today. I just ran across a project called BlenderCAD. Blender suffers from a lack of standard measuring units and I'm thinking BlenderCAD will correct this. The BlenderCAD project is either completed or abandoned. There hasn't been any activity on their website in a while, it seems. There are some others that look promising. MEDUSA4 is one. Any suggestions? bg _________________ AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 3800+ [s]nVidia CorpGF108 [EVGA GeForce GT 430][/s] <-that died when several caps went bad. Now using: NVIDIA Corporation G86 [GeForce 8500 GT] 2GB 160ns memory Samsung HD160JJ Acer x223w |
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MEPIS is cool!   Joined: Sun Feb 10, 2008 5:37 pm Posts: 541 Location: Arab, Alabama Has thanked: 58 times Have thanks: 16 times
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Re: CAD software discussion qcad was in our repository, but I don't see it there now. I have only played around with it a little while trying to learn how to use a cad program. But that was a couple of years ago and I really wasn't able to make enough headway to do much of anything.
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MEPIS Enthusiast   Joined: Fri Dec 15, 2006 8:07 pm Posts: 7357 Location: Skullcrusher Mountain, Santee, CA USA Has thanked: 322 times Have thanks: 1187 times
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Re: CAD software discussion You might want to take a look at the third post in this thread:
http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.p ... 0&t=129719 Backporting the newest Freecad to our community repo looked like a lot of work, since it needs a lot of upgraded or wholly new libraries. I'll see if any of the others have newer versions upstream and if they will backport. Edit: Librecad 1.0.1 is in Squeeze-backports already, and we apparently have the build-depends in M11 for the 2.0 beta in Experimental, so I'll try that one first. Later: M11 packages are here. http://ubuntuone.com/6VFY5yrMqy4YrtSbmGZhZz The -data deb installs first, then the program deb for your architecture. I'll also send it up to the CR. |
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