On Mon 06 Jun 2016 at 13:12:33 (-0400), Gene Heskett wrote: > On Monday 06 June 2016 11:54:12 Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote: > > > On Seg, 06 Jun 2016, Gene Heskett wrote: > > > So the bottom line is that wheezy doesn't have a decent CAD program, > > > and never will. > > > > I suppose that when it was released, little over three years ago, it > > had a then decent CAD program. > > Thats not what I said or intended to say, and no it didn't have one then > either. > > That qcad fork, with no docs is the best its ever offered, and its just > qcad renamed & not even close to the last 1.0.7 release. Freecad has > run on every install I've tried it on over the last 4 or 5 years, but > not on debian wheezy. It too has a vertical learning curve, decent > docs, but even though Dan Heeks is or was on the team, his heekscnc > convertor got left behind. And none of its plethora of other export > data formats are readily converted the RS-274-D, the N.I.S.T. std code > format for this. Linuxcnc grew from that code base, but has now been > extended many many times So I haven't propped a ladder against freecad > and really really tried to learn it. But first I'd have to pull the > sources and see if I can build it to run on wheezy.
It appears to be in wheezy-backports. Cheers, David.
