[PLUG] Mechanical CAD

[Eric Wilhelm]

# from Denis Heidtmann
# on Monday 04 December 2006 10:02 pm:

>Has anybody here looked over any of the low-priced or free CAD
> programs listed on this site?
>
>http://www.eland.org.uk/pages/Misc/cadnotes.html

Not that site, but most of them sound familiar.

>There are a few that purport to work on Linux.  Not being skilled in
> the compiling art, I would like to know if something has some chance
> of usefulness before diving in.

Are you looking for 3D or 2D?  Open Source or free/cheap?

qCad will already be in most distributions.

Varicad might do the trick if you need 3D/parametric and want to pay a 
little.

BRLCad is great if you're making tanks and simulating ballistics, but 
not exactly approachable (at least not last time I looked at the gui, 
but there's been talk of improving that.)

Joe, Bob, Jon, Sue, and TimCAD are usually not done or good.

Don't even look at LinuxCAD.  Run away.

The short answer is that we're not there yet.  Want to write some code?

--Eric
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