[ale] Quick & Dirty CAD (mechanical)

[Keith Hopkins]

Bob Slaughter wrote:
>>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.
> 

Thank you Bob!  Xfig was exactly what I was looking for.

   Xfig did the job for me much better than Dia (which I had tried the first time, but had forgotten to mention) because I was drawing by dimensions.

-- 
Lost in Tokyo,
   Keith


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