anyone know of a good cad program

[carlosponti]

i am looking for a cad program nothing fancy just something i can play with. i want to design acouple of model RC planes which i can do on paper but i want to do it so that they look nicer. i learned cad in high school. i want one that will work in linux.

[Weedman]

same. i am looking for a program like vectorworks (anybody heard of that?).

[Roxoff]

I found this:

http://www.freelists.org/cgi-bin/web...e_id=cad-linux

with a search on Google...

I know absolutely jack sh** about CAD, but this site seems to point you in the direction you want to go.

Remember... Google is your friend!

[fingal]

... or there's this. And - just for fun - elgooG is your friend.

EDIT: I think QCad is a pay-for product.

[drakebasher]

Qcad is pretty easy and is included with Knoppix and some others. Cycas is free for non-commercial use. Hard to understand, but it looks like it can do anything. You do want to render your model in 3-D, don't you?

[carlosponti]

i looked at qcad last night before posting this thread. i dont want to pay for something i am going to play with for now. i may buy it later to use after i refresh my skills with it. but i just need something that can save to dwf and print to pdf.


i dont really need the 3d modeling. i dont think i would know how to use it. i have only done 2d drafting except for one paper when you need to do 3d drawings of what ever you are drawing. but i never progressed enough into cad to get to 3d.

[fingal]

I just remembered. There's a package called gnu-cad. I think it was shipped with a distro I tried out some time ago.

EDIT: It looks a bit basic and reminds me of XFig

[hilowe]

Have you checked out the "table of equivalents/replacements/analogs of Windows software in Linux"?

The only reason I ask, is because they list 15 different CAD programs available in Linux. If not, the list is available here: http://www.linuxrsp.ru/win-lin-soft/table-eng.html

I don't know if any of them are any good, as I haven't had a chance to install any of them.

[fingal]

I know you can do a pretty good drawing job using Open Office Draw. It's not quite 2D CAD standard, but with practice you can create some good drawings ...

I used it to draw an icon for my forthcoming (give me several months) website. I even managed a texture fill and a bit of edge blurring. Finding all the features is a bit tricky at first (I think you need a tutorial) but the results are very satisfactory.

Then there's the rosy glow you get from thinking, 'I made this! And the software is free!'