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stu90

Joined: 25 Feb 2010 Posts: 1399 Location: England. Dell Inspiron 1501. Dpup
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Posted: Sun 13 Mar 2011, 10:04 Post subject:
DraftSight Beta Subject description: Lucid - 2D CAD |
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http://www.3ds.com/products/draftsight/free-cad-software/
Quote: | Welcome to a better way to create, edit and view DWG files – and the place to do it all.
DraftSight is a professional-grade, open 2D CAD product for users who want a better way to create, edit and view DWG files. DraftSight is easy to use and is available for professional CAD users, students and educators to download and activate for free. |
requires free activation
Built and tested on Lucid Puppy only.
.sfs
http://smokey01.com/stu90/lucid.puppy.pets/draftsight_beta_520.sfs
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disciple
Joined: 20 May 2006 Posts: 7024 Location: Auckland, New Zealand
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Posted: Sun 20 Mar 2011, 07:18 Post subject:
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Thanks - I haven't tested thoroughly, but it looks really good. I'll try using it instead of LT next time I do some drafting.
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nickdobrinich
Joined: 05 Apr 2007 Posts: 77 Location: Cleveland OH USA
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Posted: Thu 24 Mar 2011, 22:06 Post subject:
DraftSight CAD sfs Subject description: posted to Lighthouse forum |
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@stu90
I posted this to the Lighthouse Pup forum.
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=507405#507405
Thank you for making this into an sfs.
It runs well on Lighthouse Puppy.
DraftSight has tremendous potential, even in beta.
It is one of the essential apps I need to wean my groupies from their fatal Windows addiction.
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Ben
Joined: 02 Mar 2011 Posts: 10
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Posted: Wed 30 Mar 2011, 14:03 Post subject:
DraftSight Beta crashes Subject description: Lucid - 2D CAD |
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stu90 wrote: | Built and tested on Lucid Puppy only. |
Hello stu90,
thank you very much for your work, I was so much looking forward for a good CAD programm to come out for Puppy. (I'm using it in lubuntu already, but now, I can take it on my USB-chainring with me )
I downloaded your .sfs file in /mnt/home. Then I went to menu --> System --> Bootmanager configure bootup and chose the extra .sfs file to load at bootup.
Rebootet Lucid Puppy 5.2. Found DraftSight in the menu --> Graphic --> Draftsight. So far so good. Klicked on it, it seemed to start with the Logo, then disappeared/crashed.
Did I forget something during the install?
Thank you all in advance for your efforts and help.
Ben
PS. Using PL Lucid 5.2. on a 8 GiB USB-stick "out of the box".
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stu90

Joined: 25 Feb 2010 Posts: 1399 Location: England. Dell Inspiron 1501. Dpup
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Posted: Wed 30 Mar 2011, 22:51 Post subject:
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Hi Ben,
I am not 100% certain but i think it requires an accelerated graphics driver. I will check in the morning.
You can check for and install accelerated drivers from the drivers tab in Quickpet:
Menu > Setup > Setup Puppy > Quickpet
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nickdobrinich
Joined: 05 Apr 2007 Posts: 77 Location: Cleveland OH USA
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Posted: Thu 31 Mar 2011, 00:27 Post subject:
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@Ben,
How much RAM do you have?
What are your machine specs?
I have found that DraftSight will run in 512 Mb but needs 1 Gb for larger drawings.
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Ben
Joined: 02 Mar 2011 Posts: 10
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Posted: Thu 31 Mar 2011, 05:51 Post subject:
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stu90 wrote: | ... i think it requires an accelerated graphics driver. ... install accelerated drivers from the drivers tab in Quickpet:
Menu > Setup > Setup Puppy > Quickpet |
@stu90
Thank you, that did it. So, now, I installed the Xorg_High driver for the Matrox Graphics MGA G550 APG (rev 01).
@nickdobrinich.
On the Laptop 2 GiB RAM, and on the Desktop 3,5 (?) GiB with MS XP-SP3 -- don't know how to find out within Puppy.
(Now, I'm searching for a good forum on DraftSight for beginners. Or is anybody here interested in a sample .dwg - file with three dimensions, 2544 K? -- It's a pedal powered side-by-side tandem) - I can't find out how long the frame tubes are).
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nickdobrinich
Joined: 05 Apr 2007 Posts: 77 Location: Cleveland OH USA
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Posted: Thu 31 Mar 2011, 15:58 Post subject:
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The easiest way is use the DI command and then click a segment entity on the frame.
The command window will show you delta x, y, z lengths and the overall segment length in 3D.
You will have to do this on each segment and add them to get the overall frame length.
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Ben
Joined: 02 Mar 2011 Posts: 10
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Posted: Fri 01 Apr 2011, 02:54 Post subject:
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nickdobrinich wrote: | ... use the DI command ... |
Thank you, nickdobrinich. That works .
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nickdobrinich
Joined: 05 Apr 2007 Posts: 77 Location: Cleveland OH USA
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Posted: Fri 01 Apr 2011, 20:18 Post subject:
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Has anyone else encountered problems with jerky delayed mouse movement in DraftSight?
I only see this on Dell D600 series laptops with Synaptics touchpads and an external USB mouse.
I've adjusted the mouse acceleration and threshold in Lighthouse Pup 5 although the mouse works fine in Lighthouse itself.
And I have adjusted the mouse pointer options as suggested on the DraftSight forum.
But the mouse is still almost unusable in DraftSight on these laptops.
PS These machines are dual boot Linux and windows and have the same problem with DraftSight (but not Windows AutoCAD) on both sides.
Edit: I tested this on a faster Dell laptop and mouse movement is much smoother.
Works fine on any desktop machine I've tried it on.
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TheAsterisk!

Joined: 10 Feb 2009 Posts: 407
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Posted: Sat 09 Apr 2011, 08:09 Post subject:
Re: DraftSight mouse problem Subject description: Erratic mouse on laptops |
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Hey! A decent CAD system that doesn't cater exclusively to circuit board design! Alright!
Thanks a lot! It's working very nicely for me on Lucid 520.
(I keep expecting CATIA v5 to launch when I see "Dassault Systemes" on the splash image, but that's my problem, not yours. )
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disciple
Joined: 20 May 2006 Posts: 7024 Location: Auckland, New Zealand
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Posted: Fri 06 May 2011, 19:40 Post subject:
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Has anyone figured out how to report bugs in it? Surely it isn't only people paying for support who can report bugs?
(N.B. it isn't a bug with the program I've found, just a deficiency of its fonts)
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Geoffrey

Joined: 30 May 2010 Posts: 2379 Location: Queensland
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Posted: Fri 13 May 2011, 01:58 Post subject:
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Seems to work in Quirky 1.20, well it does for me, just had to make a system link to libaudiofile.so.0.0.2 when it couldn't find libaudio.so.2.
disciple said "Has anyone figured out how to report bugs in it? Surely it isn't only people paying for support who can report bugs? "
It says in the license agreement "The Non-Commercial Release Version also automatically collects certain system data and transmits the data to Dassault Systèmes for support purposes."
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there is this, FreeCAD it's a lot smaller http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/free-cad/index.php?title=Main_Page
might be worth a look.
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disciple
Joined: 20 May 2006 Posts: 7024 Location: Auckland, New Zealand
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Posted: Fri 13 May 2011, 02:28 Post subject:
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Yes, but apart from crashes problems can't generally be automatically collected.
I was testing it on Windows (out of interest really, as we actually have a surplus of AutoCAD licenses at the moment). I noticed in some drawings from Standards NZ that it was displaying question marks instead of "smart quotes" and an unusual type of hypen. I've never seen these characters used on a drawing before, but they should at least make it possible to report things like this, so they have as good a chance as possible to compete with AutoCAD.
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disciple
Joined: 20 May 2006 Posts: 7024 Location: Auckland, New Zealand
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Posted: Tue 17 May 2011, 22:07 Post subject:
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disciple wrote: | Has anyone figured out how to report bugs in it? |
Ah, here it is:
Go to https://swym.3ds.com/#community:70/iquestions, and there is a "Report a Problem" button down on the right-hand site.
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