Re: libreCAD, can't find help docs
On Monday 06 June 2016 18:49:50 David Wright wrote:
> On Mon 06 Jun 2016 at 13:12:33 (-0400), Gene Heskett wrote:
> > On Monday 06 June 2016 11:54:12 Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote:
> > > On Seg, 06 Jun 2016, Gene Heskett wrote:
> > > > So the bottom line is that wheezy doesn't have a decent CAD program,
> > > > and never will.
> > >
> > > I suppose that when it was released, little over three years ago, it
> > > had a then decent CAD program.
> >
> > Thats not what I said or intended to say, and no it didn't have one then
> > either.
> >
> > That qcad fork, with no docs is the best its ever offered, and its just
> > qcad renamed & not even close to the last 1.0.7 release. Freecad has
> > run on every install I've tried it on over the last 4 or 5 years, but
> > not on debian wheezy. It too has a vertical learning curve, decent
> > docs, but even though Dan Heeks is or was on the team, his heekscnc
> > convertor got left behind. And none of its plethora of other export
> > data formats are readily converted the RS-274-D, the N.I.S.T. std code
> > format for this. Linuxcnc grew from that code base, but has now been
> > extended many many times So I haven't propped a ladder against freecad
> > and really really tried to learn it. But first I'd have to pull the
> > sources and see if I can build it to run on wheezy.
>
> It appears to be in wheezy-backports.
>
> Cheers,
> David.
I can't find it there. I looked with a view to pointing Gene to it if it were
there.
Lisi
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