wine

[David Abrahams]

Duncan Lithgow <duncan at lithgow-schmidt.dk> writes:

> On Wed, 2006-08-23 at 13:46 -0400, John Dangler wrote:
>> Not totally an Ubuntu topic, but i'm a bit stumped as far as getting
>> programs to work under wine.  The googling and reading up on winehq
>> helped me get wine installed, and short list of packages listed that run
>> out of the box is fine, but I'm having a real time of getting anything
>> else to cooperate.
>> 
>> For example, I installed Punch! Pro Platinum to do some floor planning
>> (qcad docs are too light, and no one seems to know how to get started
>> with it).
> I found the manual helpful.
>
> What do you mean 'light'. Qcad is pretty good at what it does. It's
> certainly the best native linux cad app I've found - that said I don't
> use it much as I have to use AutoCAD anyway for work.
>
> But Qcad is a real CAD program, and they are hard to learn at the start.
> Not much 'point and click' to find.

For what it's worth: Google Sketchup is pretty easy to use, IME.

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