[PLUG] Acad drawing file

[Michael Montagne]

I'll try it out.  I feel your pain on the AutoCad issue.  Unfortunately,
I haven't seen anything even close.  Even an Intellicad port would be
huge. 

>On 08/08/02, from the brain of Dale F. Victor tumbled:

> Hello!
> 
> Just had a thought and I would wonder if this would work. Do you use
> Varicad - I am tring it out, but I noticed that you can use it to work
> on .dwg files. What happens if you try to see the file using this
> program - interested because I am trying to find another program to use
> instead of Auto-Cad.
> 
> Any info appreciated.
> 
> Thanks, Dale
> 
> 
> Michael Montagne wrote:
> > 
> > This is disturbing.  I was sent a .dwg file (autocad drawing) as an
> > attachment.  I use mutt on Linux to do my mail.  I saved the attachment
> > and tried to open the file with autocad.  The file was corrupt and I
> > could not open it.  The same thing happened when it had been zipped.
> > The only way it worked is forwarding it (before even opening it) to
> > myself on my windows box and using Outlook to save it.
> > Can this really be true?  Wonder why.
> > 
> > --
> >   Michael Montagne  [montagne at boora.com]   503.226.1575
> > --
> > 
> > _______________________________________________
> > PLUG mailing list
> > PLUG at lists.pdxlinux.org
> > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
> 
> _______________________________________________
> PLUG mailing list
> PLUG at lists.pdxlinux.org
> http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug

-- 
  Michael Montagne  [montagne at boora.com]   503.226.1575 
--