On Monday 06 June 2016 19:16:41 David Wright wrote: > On Mon 06 Jun 2016 at 18:56:07 (+0100), Lisi Reisz wrote: > > 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. > > > > I can't find it there. I looked with a view to pointing Gene to it if it > > were there. > > Perhaps we disagree on the referent of "it"! > > -rw-r--r-- 18824580 Jun 6 13:11 > /tmp/freecad_0.14.3702+dfsg-3~bpo70+1_i386.deb > eb83c48f5fdd6ec7c466ac1aec516741 > /tmp/freecad_0.14.3702+dfsg-3~bpo70+1_i386.deb (md5) > > Cheers, > David.
Indeed! Quotation from the subject line: Re: ****libreCAD****, can't find help docs (my stars). Lisi
