MS' hidden API

[Tom Schutter]

On 2002-07-03 10:59 Duane Clark wrote:
> Vincent Béron wrote:
>> Le mer 03/07/2002 à 11:39, Andreas Mohr a écrit :
>> 
>>> On Wed, Jul 03, 2002 at 01:33:46AM +0300, P. Christeas wrote:
>>> 
>>>> My view is that we should focus on professional apps, such as CAD, 
>>>> some multimedia etc. There is professionals that won't switch to 
>>>> Linux until some unique apps they use can run under Linux.  Games 
>>>> are an issue, too.
>>> 
>>> Very true.
>>> IMHO AutoCAD is *very* important, as it's considered to be a 
>>> leading CAD
>>> package, with no UNIX version, ever.
>> 
>> 
>> Was a leading CAD package. It's still vastly used, but (in my
>> experience) mostly to get access to old drawings. Newer stuff gets
>> designed on SolidWorks, ProE, Catia, Mechanical Desktop and a couple
>> others which do real 3D.
> 
> Just barely on topic, hope people don't mind...
> 
> So, any hints on which would be a good one to get? I am planning to 
> buy a mechanical CAD package, and would then attempt to fix any bugs 
> to get it running under wine. I have managed to do fairly well 
> getting my Xilinx FPGA software working (though getting the patches 
> committed has been a little harder), so I figure I would try a CAD 
> package, too.
> 
> My needs are pretty simple, so I don't really want the high dollar 
> stuff, perhaps under $1K (the further under the better ;)? I would be 
> doing things like mechanical drawings for machining front panels and 
> brackets for electronic equipment (which I have done in Autocad in 
> the past).

Try QCad.  At $0, it is hard to beat.  http://www.qcad.org

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Tom Schutter
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