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On 02/27/2015 01:06 PM, Girvin Herr wrote:
> Matt,
> I use (or misuse, if you like) gschem for creating mechanical drawings of my projects. I do so, because I have not yet found a
> good open source Linux 2D mechanical drawing application to use in place of gschem.


There is a truly fine GUI for parametric 2D and 3D CAD (mechanical drafting) called solvespace.
It uses the FLTK library to compile on linux and there is a breakage in fltk that is stopping it now,
so I use it in a VM on Win 7.  It's licensed GPL, just has a core developer that does windows.

Anyone good at automake and solving static vs. dynamic linking bugs in libraries like FLTK?
I've stalled out at it.

JG


On 02/27/2015 01:28 PM, Lilith Bryant wrote:> what are the limitations of LibreCAD that prevent it

It's been a few years since I looked at ol' QCAD, but I like GUIs where you use left or non-dominant hand on
a keyboard with hotkeys you can program to suit, and dominant hand on a mouse.  Being able to tug on edges to
do stuff is good too.  QCAD was lame that way.

Maybe I should try LibreCAD too, but Solvespace is really good.