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Date:      Sun, 8 Jun 1997 20:31:12 +0100 (BST)
From:      Robert Swindells <rjs@fdy2.demon.co.uk>
To:        root@totum.plaut.de
Cc:        aszydlo@gv.edu.pl, cfortin@ec.camitel.com, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: CAD
Message-ID:  <199706081931.UAA00486@fdy2.demon.co.uk>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.95.970608180806.23326A-100000@totum.plaut.de> (message from Michael Reifenberger on Sun, 8 Jun 1997 18:17:45 %2B0200 (MET DST))

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Michael Reifenberger wrote:
>> Andrzej Szydlo wrote:
>> 
>> Thanks for the suggestion. I'll try it.
>> Unfortunately, the system users (machines operators) are not expected to
>> be trained well enough to use sophisticated (for them) AutoCAD
>> interface. I'd at least have to strongly customize it it first, which is
>> generally possible. The more important problem may be the AutoCAD's
>> price...

>You should give BRL-CAD a try.
>ftp://ftp.brl.mil/brl-cad/

>You have to register yourself to get access to the sources.
>It is free of charge though.
>See the README NON_USA_README.

>I don't know if it compiles cleanly under BSD.

It compiles fine. You need Motif though.

>Does anybody have some patches.

Sorry, I didn't keep a copy of the original sources. The port is pretty
much just a matter of doing "grep __NetBSD__ *" and add __FreeBSD__ to
the end of any #ifdef lines.

Robert Swindells
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