[wuug-list] Jannuary Meeting Follow-up

[Phil Aylesworth]

Thanks, pythoncad looks very interesting. I will give it a try.

Phil.


On Sun, 30 Jan 2005 13:50:55 -0500, Xavier Spriet <xavier at wuug.org> wrote:
> http://diveintopython.org/toc/
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> On Sun, 2005-01-30 at 12:29 -0500, vsnine wrote:
> > is there any language out there that Python compares to?
> >
> > I unfortunately only know Visual Basic.NET at the moment..
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> > Josh Becigneul
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> > Xavier Spriet wrote:
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> > >PythonCAD is written in PyGTK... therefore it owns.
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> > >Xavier
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> > >On Sun, 2005-01-30 at 12:20 -0500, Mike McMullin wrote:
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> > >>  Double plus good top quoting.  :)
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> > >>  I forgot about pythoncad  :  http://www.pythoncad.org/
> > >>
> > >>QCad costs $28(U.S.?) to buy.
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>On Sun, 2005-01-30 at 12:09, Mike McMullin wrote:
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> > >>
> > >>>How about QCad?  http://www.usinglinux.org/cad/qcad.html
> > >>>IIRC this used to be bundled into SuSE.
> > >>>
> > >>>
> > >>>
> > >>>
> > >>>
> > >>>On Sun, 2005-01-30 at 11:55, Phil Aylesworth wrote:
> > >>>
> > >>>
> > >>>>Wow, there is a lot available. It all looks like over kill for what I
> > >>>>want. I am looking for a 2D package for drawing floor plans and
> > >>>>geometric shapes for my quilting wife. I used to use ClarisCAD from
> > >>>>Apple. But they got sued and discontinued it, and I don't have a MacOS
> > >>>><10 anymore. I would really like something free (as in GPL).
> > >>>>
> > >>>>Phil.
> > >>>>
> > >>>>
> > >>>>On Sun, 30 Jan 2005 11:25:34 -0500, Mike McMullin <mwmcmlln at mnsi.net> wrote:
> > >>>>
> > >>>>
> > >>>>>On Sat, 2005-01-29 at 11:06, Phil Aylesworth wrote:
> > >>>>>
> > >>>>>
> > >>>>>>I was an engineer in a previous life so I would be very interested in
> > >>>>>>a presentation. I have wondered if there are any decent, simple 2D
> > >>>>>>drafting programs for Linux. It is a pain using a drawing program like
> > >>>>>>OOo when you want precision measurements.
> > >>>>>>
> > >>>>>>Phil.
> > >>>>>>
> > >>>>>>
> > >>>>>>
> > >>>>>>
> > >>>>>  This link might be of some interest: http://www.usinglinux.org/cad/
> > >>>>>I had a look at BrisCAD but they're doing a WINE based version of their
> > >>>>>windows software, and it will of course be commercial software.  The
> > >>>>>U.S. Military has a CAD system out that can be compiled.  Sorry I don't
> > >>>>>have the name off hand, but it was mentioned IIRC on /. or newforge in
> > >>>>>the last two months.
> > >>>>>
> > >>>>>  I've got this another one on my system, but not installed.  Here's the
> > >>>>>blurb from the readme file:   http://brlcad.org/
> > >>>>>
> > >>>>>BRL-CAD is a powerful Combinatorial/Constructive Solid Geometry (CSG)
> > >>>>>solid modeling system that includes an interactive geometry editor,
> > >>>>>ray-tracing support for rendering and geometric analysis,
> > >>>>>network-distributed framebuffer support, image and signal-processing
> > >>>>>tools, and an embedded scripting language.
> > >>>>>
> > >>>>>  HTH
> > >>>>>
> > >>>>>  MIke
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Phil Aylesworth