AutoDesk Replacement? (was: BSA Presentation?) (was Re: Ernie Ball Link)

[Tom Emerson]

LinuxCAD rings the bell for me. Their home page tag line:  "(Replaces 
AutoCAD,Visio and CorelDraw all in one package!!!)".  And the command set 
emulates/implements AutoCad's set.

I haven't used / needed AutoCAD for several years, the gang I hang with 
use Visio for almost everything (UML, website/software flows, server 
farms, network diagrams, database schema).

At $89 USB, if LinuxCAD really does the job, it beats Visio standard at 
$179.99 (though everybody 'needs' Visio Pro at $424.99 ... don't ask why!)  
And: AutoCAD LT 2002, $624.99  

One exception, the latest gig I'm into, we're using Data Architect from 
The Kompany for all of the db design.  Nice product, almost ready for 
prime time, next version looks very promising.  At $39.95 for the 
downloadable version, you can't beat the price.  (a lot less expensive 
than it's more fully featured competition: $3,209.99).  And 'DA' works 
equally well on Linux or Windoze.

 - tom e.

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On Sun, 14 Jul 2002, KevinO wrote:

Check out LinuxCAD ($89): http://www.linuxcad.com/
(Supports dwg files)

also QCad (GPL): http://www.qcad.org/index.php3

I'm going to download qcad tonight ;-)