Floor plan drawing program?

[Lisa Kachold]

I used ProE and Alias when I was the MIS Administrator/Manager for Ziba Design (developer of the famous Microsoft curved Keyboard among other things) in the 1990's.  These CAD applications ran on HP-UX, and Solaris with tablet devices.

ProE has long been a forerunner in the CAD world.

Alias began in the nearly 80's in Toronto as 'Alias Research'. In 1995,
Silicon Graphics (SGI) bought Alias Research of Toronto and Wavefront
Technologies of Santa Barbara forming 'Alias Wavefront'. In 2003,
twenty years after its inception, the company took the name 'Alias'.

Mattel used Alias also.  ProE later introduced interoperability tools:
http://management.cadalyst.com/cadman/product/productDetail.jsp?id=182160

Extensive community user support in the way of templates, design tools and modeling exists for both applications - that scale to Linux CAD software:

http://www.roseindia.net/linux/linux-cad-software.shtml  Explains about Linux Cad Software including integration tools for Alias and ProE built designs and templates.

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> Date: Sat, 25 Oct 2008 21:25:48 -0700
> From: plug-discussion at stcaz.net
> To: plug-discuss at lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
> Subject: Re: Floor plan drawing program?
> 
> This is kind of funny...
> AutoCAD is not (and IMO never will be) high-end CAD software.  It's expensive middle-tier stuff.
> All of the top-end CAD/CAM software (like ProE, CATIA, Cadence, Synopsis, etc...) is Linux and/or Unix software (with some cross-platform for the companies with PHB's setting policy).  Windows just can't handle the kinds
> of activities serious pro CAD/CAM software needs.  I suppose Architects may use stuff like AutoCAD on Windows, but the engineers, IME, all use Linux or Solaris.
> 
> Full disclosure: my new company is developing ultra-high-end CAD/CAE/CAM software for microelectronics (like Cadence, except with automation, and it's actually correct). It's cross-platform, but it seems to run best on Linux (thanks to better resource management, mostly).
> 
> 
> Josef Lowder wrote:
> > Seems like "the cad people" might actually be cads
> > (and I don't mean Cadillacs ;)
> > 
> > The record Linux has achieved would seem to indicate
> > that anything that can be done with a computer is not only
> > possible in Linux, but would no doubt be superior than
> > any non-linux approach.
> > 
> > 
> > On 10/25/08, mike enriquez <mylinux at cox.net> wrote:
> >> Hey, if you find any program that will draw floor plans in Linux, please let
> >>  me know. The Cad people are telling me that this is an imposibility in
> >>  Linux.
> >>  Thanks
> >>  Mike Enriquez
> >>  ----- Original Message -----
> >>  From: "Stephen" <cryptworks at gmail.com>
> >>  To: "Main PLUG discussion list" <plug-discuss at lists.plug.phoenix.az.us>
> >>  Sent: Friday, October 24, 2008 8:46 PM
> >>  Subject: Re: Floor plan drawing program?
> >>
> >>
> >>  > one forum post suggests the following
> >>  >
> >>  > "If you want to keep it simple, what about MS Paint?
> >>  >
> >>  > Seriously, the easiest and safest solution to this is the GIMP.
> >>  > (avoiding dependency hell)
> >>  >
> >>  > Just create each item of furniture on a seperate layer (as simple as
> >>  > going to "layers" and clicking "new layer", then that way, each item
> >>  > is on a seperate sheet of acetate if you will, and they can all be
> >>  > moved independently.
> >>  >
> >>  > This also has the advantage that I've never had the GIMP fail to
> >>  > install yet, even on Slack 9.1 it went like a dream, and you also have
> >>  > an extensive availibility of information on the web."
> >>  >
> >>  > Other hunting comes up with some of the follwoing ideas
> >>  >
> >>  > http://www.gnome.org/projects/dia/
> >>  > Any cad software like inkscape or whatever your distribution has
> >>  >
> >>  >
> >>  > On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 8:23 PM, Alan Dayley <alandd at consultpros.com>
> >>  > wrote:
> >>  >> Is there a program out there for Linux that allows one to draw a home
> >>  >> or office floor plan?  I don't need CAD quality here, just fairly
> >>  >> accurate relative sizes of furniture and walls.  Then one could drag
> >>  >> the furniture around the room to figure out a new layout.  I used to
> >>  >> do this with a ruler, sissors and graph paper but I'd rather use
> >>  >> something more virtual.
> >>  >>
> >>  >> Alan
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> >>  >
> >>  > Stephen
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