From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Aug 21 21:33:38 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from moutvdom00.kundenserver.de (moutvdom00.kundenserver.de [195.20.224.149]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 631EB37B411 for ; Tue, 21 Aug 2001 21:33:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from root@pukruppa.de) Received: from [195.20.224.209] (helo=mrvdom02.schlund.de) by moutvdom00.kundenserver.de with esmtp (Exim 2.12 #2) id 15ZPhE-0006QT-00; Wed, 22 Aug 2001 06:32:52 +0200 Received: from pd90172ef.dip.t-dialin.net ([217.1.114.239]) by mrvdom02.schlund.de with esmtp (Exim 2.12 #2) id 15ZPhE-0008G1-00; Wed, 22 Aug 2001 06:32:52 +0200 Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2001 06:33:12 +0000 (GMT) From: "P. U. (Uli) Kruppa" X-X-Sender: To: Chris Fedde Cc: Shannon Wheeler , Subject: Re: suitable CAD system for scientific use? In-Reply-To: <200108212123.f7LLNBq05906@fedde.littleton.co.us> Message-ID: <20010822061515.I40582-100000@localhost> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII 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, Chris Fedde wrote: > Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2001 15:23:11 -0600 > From: Chris Fedde > To: Shannon Wheeler > Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > Subject: Re: suitable CAD system for scientific use? > > 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. Yes: if you are happy with 2d-drafting, you should give qcad a try. You can produce dxf-files and you can catch the postscript printer-output and convert it to most other formats with Image-Magick (also free). Or you can combine it with tex (free too). (Or: has anybody tried to run autocad with WINE or vmware?) Uli. *--------------------------------------* | www.pukruppa.de www.2000d.de | | Wuppertal - Germany | *--------------------------------------* To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message