Re: technical drawing program

2009-01-23 Thread Frank Staals
prad wrote: any recommendations? i've tried dia and inkscape. the former seems to be good for flowcharts and general diagrams while the latter is great for all sorts of things, but i'd like to be able to do accurate geometric diagrams and was wondering if something more appropriate is available.

Re: technical drawing program

2009-01-23 Thread Boris Samorodov
On Fri, 23 Jan 2009 11:28:19 +0100 Frank Staals wrote: It's a shame the FreeBSD port's version is so old (6.0-pre23 while the current version is allready 6.0-pre31 (or even 6.0-pre32 I'm not sure) though. Do you know that saying it's a shame... you are actually speaking about yourself

Re: technical drawing program

2009-01-23 Thread Frank Staals
Boris Samorodov wrote: On Fri, 23 Jan 2009 11:28:19 +0100 Frank Staals wrote: It's a shame the FreeBSD port's version is so old (6.0-pre23 while the current version is allready 6.0-pre31 (or even 6.0-pre32 I'm not sure) though. Do you know that saying it's a shame... you are

Re: technical drawing program

2009-01-23 Thread Chuck Robey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Boris Samorodov wrote: On Fri, 23 Jan 2009 11:28:19 +0100 Frank Staals wrote: It's a shame the FreeBSD port's version is so old (6.0-pre23 while the current version is allready 6.0-pre31 (or even 6.0-pre32 I'm not sure) though. Do you know

Re: technical drawing program

2009-01-23 Thread Michel Talon
Chuck Robey wrote: I never had a chance to look qcad over. Maybe someone else who has that experience with it could give a better critique of it, without sounding like a salesman or a booster. I have used xfig and qcad. Qcad is definitely more complicated to use, it is handled similarly to

technical drawing program

2009-01-22 Thread prad
any recommendations? i've tried dia and inkscape. the former seems to be good for flowcharts and general diagrams while the latter is great for all sorts of things, but i'd like to be able to do accurate geometric diagrams and was wondering if something more appropriate is available. -- In

Re: technical drawing program

2009-01-22 Thread Dave Feustel
On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 12:37:34PM -0800, prad wrote: any recommendations? i've tried dia and inkscape. the former seems to be good for flowcharts and general diagrams while the latter is great for all sorts of things, but i'd like to be able to do accurate geometric diagrams and was

Re: technical drawing program

2009-01-22 Thread Michel Talon
On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 12:37:34PM -0800, prad wrote: any recommendations? i've tried dia and inkscape. the former seems to be good for flowcharts and general diagrams while the latter is great for all sorts of things, but i'd like to be able to do accurate geometric diagrams and was

Re: technical drawing program

2009-01-22 Thread Roland Smith
On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 12:37:34PM -0800, prad wrote: any recommendations? i've tried dia and inkscape. the former seems to be good for flowcharts and general diagrams while the latter is great for all sorts of things, but i'd like to be able to do accurate geometric diagrams and was

Re: technical drawing program

2009-01-22 Thread Polytropon
On Thu, 22 Jan 2009 12:37:34 -0800, prad p...@towardsfreedom.com wrote: any recommendations? i've tried dia and inkscape. the former seems to be good for flowcharts and general diagrams while the latter is great for all sorts of things, but i'd like to be able to do accurate geometric diagrams