Re: [OxLUG] Technical drawing software

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Author: raymond.meyer
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To: Oxfordshire Linux User Group Discussion List
Subject: Re: [OxLUG] Technical drawing software
On Thursday 26 June 2008 13:47:38 Simon Dales wrote:
> A further thought is not to bother. What's wrong with BS308? There was a
> time when we didn't use computers to draw stuff; we used pencils and pens.
>
> A typical rear mech hanger would take me about 5 minutes to drawn with a
> crayon on a bit of scrap cardboard. That drawing then goes off to the
> fabricators.


It's a little bit more complicated than that. Yeah I could do it by hand, but
I'll try xfig and qcad packages, they seem to be simple and easy to use. If
they don't do what I need, I'll just draw it by hand.