On Friday, January 31, 2014 10:22:01 Jack Chastain wrote: > On Thu, Jan 30, 2014 at 2:15 PM, Chris Knadle <[email protected]>wrote: > > On Thursday, January 30, 2014 12:07:23 Jack Chastain wrote: > > > On Thu, Jan 30, 2014 at 11:19 AM, Chris Knadle [...] > Well - LibreCad loaded up with no problem - so maybe I will just go start > with that - I'm certainly not wedded to DraftSight (I think I said that > somewhere).
Okay. > Chris - any pointers to some learning material? One of the nicer things > about DS was a real good intro doc that walked the user through pretty much > everything. Okay. So I mentioned LibreCAD is based on QCad. Distributions had to drop QCad because it was based on Qt3 which went away in favor of Qt4 (and oh BTW there's Qt5 now), and LibreCAD was the fork that converted to Qt4 which is why it's in distributions -- however it seems the documentation didn't come with it, likely because of licensing issues. LibreCAD has a wiki, but there's not much there. http://zxq9.com/librecad/wiki/?title=LibreCAD_Users_Manual QCad has the first 38 pages of a book on QCad available on their website, and that seems like it has some use for the basics: http://qcad.org/en/qcad-documentation but you can see the problem -- in order to learn LibreCAD you end up needing copyrighted material, so then that information is "tainted" and can't be used to create documentation for LibreCAD, so that's why I think they have the problem that they do. -- Chris -- Chris Knadle [email protected] _______________________________________________ Mid-Hudson Valley Linux Users Group http://mhvlug.org https://mhvlug.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mhvlug Upcoming Meetings (6pm - 8pm) Vassar College Feb 5 - Nginx Mar 5 - March Meeting: 11th Anniversary Apr 2 - Google App Engine
