| From: | Don Cox |
| Date: | 30 Aug 2001 at 15:59:47 |
| Subject: | Re: CAD programs |
On 30-Aug-01, David McMinn wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Can anyone recommend a good CAD program for the Amiga? I tried some of
> the demos on Aminet, but all were a bit naff (unless I missed some) or
> had shoddy GUIs.
>
> I'd like it to be able to produce technical drawings fairly easily, so
> ideally would have tools related to that (e.g. exploding drawings,
> line measurement, multiple layers, automatic conversion to different
> views [if that's possible on simple enough drawings]) and decent,
> easily understandable/editable toolbars - I don't want to have to faff
> through 20 levels of menus just to change a line style! Electronics
> schemtics toolkits would be a nice bonus, but not a necessity.
>
> It would also be very nice to be able to change the snap-to grid to
> different angles (e.g. instead of always being in a square layout, it
> could be set to 30 degrees for isometric drawings).
>
> Oh, it also needs to work happily on a graphics card, and not have
> some non-standard kind of interface.
There's only one really - Cycas.
I reviewed it in an early issue of Amigactive and thought it was
excellent. Due to poor (or no) sales, they are now concentrating on
Linux, but the Amiga version is still there.
http://www.cycas.de/amiga/index.html
A screen display of around 1024x768 is ideal.
The price is 75 Euros, which I think is cheap.
I found it took a day or two to get the hang of it, and from then on it
was very easy to use.
Years ago there was a more powerful CAD program called DynaCADD. IIRC it
had a dongle. You might find a copy of the Amiga version (it was on
several platforms) somewhere. It was expensive.
Regards
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