Re: [newbie] Technical drawing tools
Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Fri, 2002-11-29 at 01:48, John Richard Smith wrote: Yes , Stephen, Technical drawing on computer, you know round widgets and things. I'm currently looking at gcad, which I take to mean Computer Aided Design. and Dia, both look promissing, I found a help file for qcad , seems to think you know quite a bit already, and the manual doesn't start to get going for some depth, but I trying to make sense of it right now. Dia seems to have a broken help file location so currently cannot make head nor tail of it.I haven't drawn with computers before so this is all new. I need to draw a plan, side, and end view of a device I'm giving to a friend so he can make it for himself. thanks. John I did notice that the "Dia" with MDK wasn't setup quite correctly - the Dia on my RH box has all the proper help files and the likes - and when I did the upgrade, I did it via tarball. Did you, that explains it, I used rpm's , I think off the website or was it an rpmfind found site I cannot remember. I will take a look at that, I found some help pages on the net but I really wanted something I could either download as say a pdf file and store on a spare partition, like I do with gimp, then i can just look it up anytime, or builtinto the app itself. John There's been several "CAD" style proggies floating around - seen at either Icewalk, Apps.kde.org, LinuxApps, PlanetMirror, Gnome.org, Sourceforge.net and Freshmeat.net... Have you taken a bounce around there to check it out? (Remember, CAD programs were first run under UNIX...) -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Technical drawing tools
Brian Parish wrote: On Fri, 2002-11-29 at 01:48, John Richard Smith wrote: Yes , Stephen, Technical drawing on computer, you know round widgets and things. I'm currently looking at gcad, which I take to mean Computer Aided Design. and Dia, both look promissing, I found a help file for qcad , seems to think you know quite a bit already, and the manual doesn't start to get going for some depth, but I trying to make sense of it right now. Dia seems to have a broken help file location so currently cannot make head nor tail of it.I haven't drawn with computers before so this is all new. I need to draw a plan, side, and end view of a device I'm giving to a friend so he can make it for himself. thanks. John John, Regarding qcad, check this out to get you started: http://www.linuxfocus.org/English/January2002/article132.shtml HTH Brian Oh thanks very much Brian, that is a far better written manual than I had. There is something a lot easier about the way it's done. I've created 3 view diagrams with my first brief encounter, of course nothing is to scale and I've got to figure out how you do that , there does not appear to be rulers as such thought you can set calibration and scaling. It seems to me you really want a very large monitor for commercial technical drawing , and some hole lot better screen resolution would aid display especially as far and straight lines are concerned which often come out looking slightly stepped on screen, though not otherwise. Now one further question. Is the qcad file format at all compatible with anything in windblows, do you know ? John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Technical drawing tools
Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Thu, 2002-11-28 at 07:22, John Richard Smith wrote: Does anyone know of any good linux based technical drawing programmes. regards, John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Are you talking about diagramming, or what actually? Yes , Stephen, Technical drawing on computer, you know round widgets and things. I'm currently looking at gcad, which I take to mean Computer Aided Design. and Dia, both look promissing, I found a help file for qcad , seems to think you know quite a bit already, and the manual doesn't start to get going for some depth, but I trying to make sense of it right now. Dia seems to have a broken help file location so currently cannot make head nor tail of it.I haven't drawn with computers before so this is all new. I need to draw a plan, side, and end view of a device I'm giving to a friend so he can make it for himself. thanks. John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Technical drawing tools
Miark wrote: dia On Wed, 27 Nov 2002 20:22:52 + John Richard Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Does anyone know of any good linux based technical drawing programmes. regards, John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thanks Miark, I will check it out, have downloaded a tat ball, now looking to see if we have an rpm vesion Is there a possibility of a nice little pdf file manual , do you know. John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Technical drawing tools
dia On Wed, 27 Nov 2002 20:22:52 + John Richard Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Does anyone know of any good linux based technical drawing programmes. > > regards, > > John > > -- > John Richard Smith > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Technical drawing tools
Does anyone know of any good linux based technical drawing programmes. regards, John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
