Marvin Dickens wrote:
Go back through this thread - We posted some of our experiences and
thoughts about Varicad.
Ok, found them.
Making the statement that it is doubtful that Alibre
The statement was refering to varicad.
Exactly, what is the connection between
a company who demos their product in Flash
and their commitment to *any* particular operating system?
Flash players are not readily available for some systems. In particular
there is no native viewer in my distribution (debian) and macromedia
fails to provide a plugin:
http://www.macromedia.com/de/software/flashplayer/productinfo/systemreqs/
On second thought I searched a little harder and found a download page
for an older version of the player. So I finally can view flash movies
with mozilla based browsers :-)
I decided to try the trial version of varicad. It needed a bit of admin
persuasion to install. The package requires kdelibs4:3.3.2-6.4 but
debian only provided kdelibs4:3.3.2-6.4 with sarge before they switched
to kdelibs4c2a for etch. So I had to use "--foce-all" to get it
installed anyway. Since I already have updated most of my system to etch
I had to downgrade almost all my k-Windows apps. Luckily my desktop is
based on gnome...
>From what I have seen yet, the GUI of varicad is quite intuitive. Much
better than the autacad clones I have seen before. Working with 3D is
easier than 2D with qcad (!). I think, I will shell out the money for a
license and hope that the program does "as advertised" :-)
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