RE: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] Linux CAD

I didn't have these problems with qcad...? it was pretty hard to make sense
of the box's at first (comming from autocad) everything seemed backwards to
me (the selection process..etc...) once i sorted out THAT, i found it to be
quicker then ACAD... perhaps we should just say it's not for everyone and
let it be, ok?---Dave L.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bill Vance [mailto:ccq@...]
> Sent: Tuesday, January 08, 2002 10:47 AM
> To: CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] Linux CAD
>
>
> Hi guy;
>
> Ever thought of writing a qcad manual? I'd be interested in
> the rational behind
> pop up windows that may/may not contain anything dealing with
> the function you
> want, have two or six totally unrelated functions included,
> and no sensible way
> to choose between them. Also of interest, would be the
> required sequence for
> making those multi-layer buttons work properly. Defining
> them would be a good
> start. After that, explaining why they usually don't seem to
> do the same thing
> from one time to the next, even though the sequence used is
> the same. They
> occaissionally work, sometimes partially work, and usually
> don't. It _does_
> seem to be a nicely thought out control interface, but the
> problem is making it
> do _anything_. Then there's that stupid, "page", that
> allways comes up on
> startup. Surely my doodlings could clutter up the screen
> better than that.
>
> Sorry about the rant, but I'm finding qcad to be much less
> than desired.
>
> Bill
>
> On Mon Jan 7 08:08:41 2002, dlantz@...,
> <dlantz@...> wrote:
>
> >before buying linuxcad, i would read up on it. I looked
> into it a few years
> >back and couldn't find ONE good article about it, everything
> i read pointed
> >to the negative
> >qcad was hard for me in the begining too, but after making
> the adjustment to
> >it, i found it to be better organized and more user friendly then the
> >others... generally better thought out for 2d.---Dave L.
> >
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: Bill Vance [mailto:ccq@...]
> >> Sent: Sunday, January 06, 2002 1:19 PM
> >> To: 2ccq@...
> >> Subject: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] Linux CAD
> >>
> >>
> >> Is there a reasnoably intuitive CAD for Linux? I'm used to
> >> IntroCAD, (Amiga
> >> 2000), and TurboCAD, (WinNT), both of which are relatively
> >> easy to use. For
> >> Linux, howver, qcad just isn't cutting it.
> >>
> >> Bill
>
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