Re: TRIG, was CAD programs

2001-11-01 Thread L.D. Best
Klaus, Hey! I'm pleased to find out that someone else out there knows how to go back to the basics and use the 'right triangle' approach! When I was without network access, without my reference books, and had to figure out the lumber needed to build an extension on my mother's house, it was don

Re: CAD programs

2001-11-01 Thread Cristian Burneci
to buy it, so I had to dump it :-( Cristian Burneci > Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2001 14:25:16 -0400 > From: "L.D. Best" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: CAD programs > Does anyone know of a simple to use [code would be complex, of course] > "drafting" program

TRIG, was CAD programs

2001-11-01 Thread Klaus Hameyer
L.D.Best wrote: >Another nice thing would be if I provide a number of distances, it could >do the trig or whatever to compute the unknown distance/angle. >... >I don't have my fancy calculator that did trig functions any longer, I >would have to look in Encyclopaedia Britannica to find the trig >e

CAD programs

2001-10-31 Thread L.D. Best
We have an older version of AutoCAD which my son swears by. I look at it and I'm lost. I downloaded GammaCAD which will run in Win3.1 ... never finished the tutorial. :( Does anyone know of a simple to use [code would be complex, of course] "drafting" program where I can tell it the distances a