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From: "Pedro F. Giffuni" <pgiffuni@fps.biblos.unal.edu.co>
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To: Andrzej Szydlo <aszydlo@maciek.gv.edu.pl>
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Subject: Re: Writing 2D/3D CAD, drawing, OpenGL ...
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Andrzej Szydlo wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> >
> > > My "only" problem is the 2D design tool. None of the drawing tools available
> > > for FreeBSD seems to be useful for a starting point to develop it. (however
> > > I may be wrong).
> > > Writing such editor with no basis and libraries would be too time consuming,
> > > almost impossible in our conditions.
> > >
> > > Do you know of any free or commercial resources that could be useful as
> > > a base to develop the editor? Maybe someone is doing similair job and
> > > we could join our efforts and share experiencies?
> > >
> >
> >   xfig ?
> 
> Well, what I need is simple if compared to, say, AutoCAD, but it still requiries
> lots of CAD capabilities. I considered both xfig and xpaint as basis for the
> work. Unfortunately there would still remain some 90% work to be done. I'm
> not lazy, but the time is limited.
> 
It's still not clear what you're looking for ..., maybe something in
this list?
	http://www.xnet.com/~blatura/linapp5.html#graphics

> An alternative is Windows NT ...
>
That's your problem :-).
 
> Any other suggestions would be very welcome.
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Andrzej

	Pedro.