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Re: libreCAD, can't find help docs



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.


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