[ale] Quick & Dirty CAD (mechanical)

[Michael D. Hirsch]

On Monday 05 May 2003 06:37 pm, Bob Slaughter wrote:
> > Hi ALE,
> >
> >   Anyone have a suggestion for a Very easy to use CAD like program?  I
> > need something quick & dirty to draw a Very rough floor-plan of my
> > apartment.
> >
> >   I tried Gimp, QCAD & Cycad, but none were quite quick & dirty enough
> > (since they all had a learning curve of more than 5 min for me).  I'm
> > an old hack at AutoCAD (the DOS version).
>
> Try Xfig; it should be bundled with most linux distros. Ain't CAD, but
> will do block drawings and such fairly quickly, and you can do arrowed
> measurement lines as well, etc.

Oh, gross.  If you have to use xfig, do yourself a favor and find tgif 
instead.  For some reason it doesn't seem to come on most distributions, 
but it is much more powerful than xfig.  Both of them are a little klunky 
and old fashioned, but xfig especially so.

I'd rather use vector, sodipodi, koffice or openoffice than either of 
those.  None of these are CAD, just vector graphics programs.

Michael
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