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  1. 03-19-2007 #1
    jonantice
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    CAD/SVG on linux (I want)

    I don't know how many of you regularly need to use a good CAD program but those of you who do probably know that there are few OSS CAD programs available. I know Bentley's Microstation (the best imho) is available for linux but I want OSS.
    I know there is qcad (which I use), jcad, sagcad and others but they really leave much to be desired and as far as I can tell, are dead projects and in qcad's case is developed by a private company which realeases free, watered-down versions.
    I was just thinking the other day that I'd actually be willing to learn C++ in order to contribute to a serious CAD project. I've worked some with SVG (scalable vector graphics) and I think that would be the way to go as far as file format (because it's XML). Other than that, all I know is that I want to see a professional, serious attempt at an OSS CAD program that is to AutoCAD and Microstation what the GIMP is to Photoshop.
    Does anyone know of any promising CAD projects out there?
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  2. 03-19-2007 #2
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    VariCAD: http://www.varicad.com/
    FreeCAD: http://www.ar-cad.com/products/freecad/download

    Google is your friend. I don't know if that's what you're looking for or not.
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  3. 03-19-2007 #3
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    Believe me, I've googled
    VariCAD is not open source (free 30day trial).
    freeCAD is a basic 3D CAD with advanced motion simulation
    what I want to see is something geared more towards civil engineering, GIS, surveing. Until then, on linux, I just use qcad which does the basics well.
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    How about BRL-CAD?
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    Try Qcad! It works fine.
    If you need a CD/DVD catalogizer, give a try to my program:
    http://www.kde-apps.org/content/show...content=100682
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    If I recall correctly there are some FOSS GIS programs out there (although I haven't used them).
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    Check the CAE Linux distro! It's main focus is Mechanical Engineering, but it does include software for all guys that aren't as cool as us MEs...
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    Quote Originally Posted by bidi
    Check the CAE Linux distro! It's main focus is Mechanical Engineering, but it does include software for all guys that aren't as cool as us MEs...
    *cough**cough*
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  9. 03-21-2007 #9
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    Have you tried this link?

    http://www.nawaz.org/wiki/index.php?...%2C_Scientific

    It's a link to the table of equivalents, scientific. There's a list of 13 different cad programs, only 3 of which are supposedly proprietary.

    Includes Varkon, Thancad, FreeEngineer, PythonCAD, OpenCascade.

    I haven't used any of these, so I can't say if they're any good, but at least it's a place to start.
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    I have heard the complaints about CAD before: I know nothing about CAD, but best of luck with that!

    On the GIS side of things, while I know nothing about that either, at BarCamp Boston this weekend, one of the talks mentioned QGIS as being a pretty good GIS program. It's based on GRASS, and apparently not as good as ArcGIS, but it was recommended for the Linux users in the audience.

    http://www.qgis.org/
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