New high quality professional CAD software has been introduced
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by the company from Illinois
http://www.linuxcad.com
Freedom of Choice CAD ( or also known under title LinuxCAD ) is a Computer Aided Drafting
package in many aspects analogous to well known product AutoCAD of Autodesk Inc.
LinuxCAD has been developed absolutely independently from scratch , it is a native Linux
application.
The outline of the main features:
1) LinuxCAD provides great variety of entity types ( lines , circles , ellipses , traces , text ,
polylines , solids , doughnuts , arcs , user defined entities and 3D entities ) ,
2) LinuxCAD allows implements necessary editing features ( scale ,
rotate , mirror , offset , array , copy , move ... ).
3) Allows up to 1000 layers, with ability to control layer color and visibility independently.
4) All entities are transferable to and from AutoCAD through DXF exchange format.
5) Supports user defined line types and load able fonts in SHX format.
6) Supports a hardcopy to printers.
7) Parts of the drawing can be copied between different instances of the LinuxCAD using X-Clipboard.
8) LinuxCAD has industry standard Motif GUI.
9) Allows users to write custom applications for automating typical editing and drafting tasks
using industry most popular C-compiler GCC.
To learn more about LinuxCAD ( or Freedom of Choice CAD ) visit web page
http://www.linuxcad.com
Although sold as a commercial software LinuxCAD is still priced at very competitive low price
of $65 and $40 for full time students.
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