12/4/2023 0 Comments Draftsight debian![]() ![]() Archive drawings are a crapshoot but most can be made to work with a little editing. I've already started to discipline myself to use only Librecad for new drawings and that's going well. dwg (again not 100%), hence my Progecad-on-windows backup. dwg files (odaf file converter) won't open when converted to dxf, but Librecad can open. It's really a remarkable piece of open-source work if you give it a chance. When it's all said and done, Librecad will be my go-to 2d cad application. Lots of features are missing, and some of the frequently used DS/Autocad commands must be accomplished in 2 or 3 stebs using multiple commands. ![]() For the most part, Librecad is very capable, but you've got to think more like the old days on the board (manual drafting). This is my backup for when Librecad is too cumbersome or fails for certain operations. I have one older (2nd gen i5) thinkpad with windows on it, Progecad installed and 100% working. On Mint 19, a new enough version is available in the software manager, and I installed it. I've never cared much for Qcad, but I finally installed Librecad (actually on 18.3 I'm using an appimage, although an older version can be installed with synaptic but doesn't show up in software manager). Works in Mint 18.3 under wine 1.6.2, but not 100%. (program will start but no drawing appears) Menu>Administration>Bumblebee Application Settings. Additional step for those with switchable Graphics card. Since the DS announcement last week, I was able to install an old friend from my Windows days: Progecad 2009. sudo dpkg -i -force-architecture,depends. ![]() All this said I continued to use it because after 30+ years of autocad experience, it has been the best free alternative without a learning curve, and capable of opening and editing my sizable archive of. DraftSight is not available for Linux but there are plenty of alternatives that runs on Linux with similar functionality. Dassault-Systemes has also been a pain, and their forum for DS is very poor. DS is a pretty comprehensive and feature rich 2d program, although a couple of versions have been broken. Been using Draftsight since the first version was released and it has been an up-and-down experience. Also for V1R5 one also needs the ia32-libs-gtk. sudo apt-get install libc6-i386 sudo dpkg -add-architecture i386 sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install ia32-libs. I've been looking at alternatives myself. So, in order to install it on a relatively fresh install of Debian Wheezy 7.5 one needs to install the ia32-libs package. ![]()
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