Re: [Hampshire] Basic CAD software?

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Author: Hugo Mills
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On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 02:19:05PM +0000, Peter Salisbury wrote:
> On 17 February 2010 13:26, Victor Churchill <victorchurchill@???> wrote:
> > That's very neat Hugo. When Steve posted I thought about suggesting
> > 'gimp' for the importing+drawing but missed the measurement angle (so
> > to speak)
> >
>
> OpenOffice Draw also allows you to draw lines on top of an image and
> has the advantage of the lines being modifiable later (plus all the
> goodies associated with a high-end vector object oriented graphics
> package).


I'd hardly describe OpenOffice Draw as "high-end". Like almost
everything else in OpenOffice.org, it's a poor copy of MS Office, and
is incredibly painful to use for drawing graphics. It also doesn't
seem to be able to tell me the angle of a line once I've drawn it. For
vector drawing, Inkscape is generally a much better solution.

Hugo.

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