Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2001 15:23:11 -0600 From: Chris Fedde <chris@fedde.littleton.co.us> To: "Shannon Wheeler" <swheeler@mce.ab.ca> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: suitable CAD system for scientific use? Message-ID: <200108212123.f7LLNBq05906@fedde.littleton.co.us> In-Reply-To: <05af01c12a61$9c444a40$0d00a8c0@mshome.net>
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On Tue, 21 Aug 2001 10:52:06 -0600 "Shannon Wheeler" wrote:
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| From: "Doug Poland" <doug@polands.org>
| Sent: Tuesday, August 21, 2001 7:50 AM
|
| > On Tue, Aug 21, 2001 at 10:09:24AM +0200, Hartmann, O. wrote:
| > >
| > > As a geologist I need several kinds of software to take field researches
| > > into a reproduceable media. With Windooze based PCs most scientists
| > > around here use a combination of AutoCAD and ArcInfo/ArcView and I wish
| > > to offer a similar system for use at the institute and for personal use
| > > on our FreeBSD cluster.
| > >
| > I'm a former AutoCAD and ARC/INFO programmer (on both UNIX and NT). I'd
| > say you're most likely to succeed if...
| >
| > 1. Autodesk or ESRI release their products on Linux (don't hold your
| breath).
| > or
| > 2. Autodesk or ESRI release their products on OS/X. It won't be FreeBSD
| > but it may actually happen.
|
| What about MicroStation? Any Unix versions of it? It probably wouldn't be
| free but at least the OS could be.
|
| hmmm....
| There's free internet, office & multimedia packages for FreeBSD.
|
| There's ray tracers and all sorts of 'scientific' calculation programs.
|
| But I haven't seen any drafting packages - at least not powerful (or modern)
| ones (for any OS).
|
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I'm surprised that no one has mentioned qcad yet. It's not nearly as
powerful as autocad or microstation by a long shot but it's a decent 2d
drafting package. Significantly more powerful than say xfig or tgif.
It's in the ports collection at /usr/ports/cad/qcad.
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Chris Fedde
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