know of any free linux 3d cad software?

[Doug Winterburn]

Thanks, Joe. I'll give it a shot.

-Doug

[Tom Watson]

I don't have a plan yet, Doug. I thought that I'd put Linux on this

233 that I have laying around, just to see what it was like.

I took a long time switching from CPM to DOS and an even longer time switching from DOS to Win 3.1.

Hell, some days I still miss CPM.

I loved that "Global Search And Destroy" command.

(although I don't miss Wordstar 1.0)

Regards, Tom Thomas J. Watson-Cabinetmaker Gulph Mills, Pennsylvania

[Buttonhole McGee]

Have a care, though, Tom - lots of recent Linux distributions need more power that that if you're going to use the pretty desktops 'n' stuff. If you're fixin' to take a mem'ry trip down Command Line Lane, you may do fine, depending on how many roses you plan to sniff along the way. (I've got an old 400MHz laptop with 192MB of RAM that's pretty pokey if I'm using much of anything in the Red Hat 9 GUI.)

Several drug companies have products to assist with this problem. I'm told one doesn't even miss one's libido.

Now, didja have to go there? I just pulled some old files off some disks my dad had lying around - he could no longer access them due to media size (5.25" disks) and file format (WordStar). Believe it or not, you can still get an import filter for Microsoft Word that'll import WordStar files. OpenOffice, unfortunately, does not seem to have the same functionality (though I thought I recalled seeing that in StarOffice 5.x).

Woodworking-related content - I gave Dad the converted files, and he gave me my grandfather's Stanley Sweetheart plane. Wish I had more files to convert!

[Bob Kuphal]

Nova,

Worked at Naperville Ill> Bob Kuphal wrote:

[Bob Kuphal]

[Nova]

I hear you. After 34 years, they still call me the new kid. ;-)

-- Jack Novak Buffalo, NY - USA

[Silvan]

Lemme know if you have trouble when you do. I don't currently subscribe to the Linux groups because... Well, I guess I just *use* the damn stuff, and I got tired of *talking* about it all the time.

Anyway, I'd be happy to help you through any trouble spots, and my e-mail address works.

Think of it as payback for all those touching stories. :)

[Steve Turner]

Thankfully, I didn't have to suffer through the early versions of Windows; I went from DOS to OS/2 and stayed there for years (I work at IBM and I still run it there, along with Linux and Win2000).

Loved it. Ever heard of "TurboDOS"? It was a CP/M workalike, and far superior Ran it in the early 80's on Z80 Televideo hardware.

I do. I still drive my VisualSlick text editor with a modified Wordstar keyboard mapping.

[McQualude]

Doug Winterburn spaketh...

I'll take your word for it, but here is the text from their website:

Windows qcad_2_0_0_8_demo_win32.zip (6MB) QCad binary for 32bit Windows. All libraries are statically linked in. No Qt required. Demo version - terminates after 10min. The Professional version is available for a small license fee from here.

Doesn't sound free to me.

[update: ok, I see, the source code is GPL'd, but the binaries require a license fee. I emailed them for clarification on this]