[nzlug] Architectural CAD

[Vik Olliver]

On Fri, 2007-03-09 at 16:49 +1300, David Harrison wrote:
> If the architect you know is doing work professionally she will find  
> that biting the bullet and running Windows/OSX reasonably low priced  
> CAD product like Vectorworks or Archicad will make her financially a  
> lot more productive. 

They were running Qcad under Windows - it's cross-platform.

There's actually some debate going on in the Art Of Illusion
http://artofillusion.org forum, with people discussing how to create a
CAD-friendly layer on it. AoI is a Java app and works well across
Linux/Windows/Mac - I use it for simple 3D CAD work myself. Linkx of
course :)

Vik :v)
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