[ale] Quick & Dirty CAD (mechanical)

[rslau at mindspring.com (Bob Slaughter)]

> Hi ALE,
> 
>   Anyone have a suggestion for a Very easy to use CAD like program?  I need
> something quick & dirty to draw a Very rough floor-plan of my apartment.
> 
>   I tried Gimp, QCAD & Cycad, but none were quite quick & dirty enough (since
> they all had a learning curve of more than 5 min for me).  I'm an old hack at
> AutoCAD (the DOS version).

Try Xfig; it should be bundled with most linux distros. Ain't CAD, but will
do block drawings and such fairly quickly, and you can do arrowed measurement
lines as well, etc.


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Bob Slaughter, rslau at mindspring.com     http://www.mindspring.com/~rslau/
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