From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Aug 21 14:23:16 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from fedde.littleton.co.us (cfedde.dsl.frii.net [216.17.139.141]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4682437B401 for ; Tue, 21 Aug 2001 14:23:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cfedde@fedde.littleton.co.us) Received: from fedde.littleton.co.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by fedde.littleton.co.us (8.11.4/8.11.4) with ESMTP id f7LLNBq05906; Tue, 21 Aug 2001 15:23:11 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <200108212123.f7LLNBq05906@fedde.littleton.co.us> To: "Shannon Wheeler" Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: suitable CAD system for scientific use? In-Reply-To: <05af01c12a61$9c444a40$0d00a8c0@mshome.net> From: Chris Fedde Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2001 15:23:11 -0600 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 21 Aug 2001 10:52:06 -0600 "Shannon Wheeler" wrote: +------------------ | From: "Doug Poland" | 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). | +------------------ 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. -- Chris Fedde To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message