![]() Still, for the most part I found the interface easy to figure out as I went along, thanks to status-area tooltips and some clean UI layout. Given my own limited experience with CAD, I was grateful that Dassault provides a Getting Started guide, but PDF rendering problems left large sections of the guide unreadable. The package installs itself as a fully native desktop Linux application, including menu shortcuts and registering itself as the default application to open. At least no one will confuse it for open source software. You must also click away your assent to a terms-and-conditions page to begin the download, another terms-and-conditions window to install the package, and yet a third to launch the app for the first time. Still, it might have been nice to have the dependencies listed on the web site, although that is par for the course - Dassault’s DraftSight site has an annoying habit of providing the majority of its content (including the FAQ and Getting Started Guide) as downloadable PDFs rather than simple HTML. The dependencies are standard GUI fare - Freetype, Cairo, GTK+, D-Bus, and so forth, so any up-to-date system should have no trouble installing it. The beta weighs in at a beefy 68.8 MB, with a prodigious list of dependencies, but it is a real, native Linux application and not a WINE port. Free software CAD still has a long way to go, but for now DraftSight offers Linux users a rare glimmer of hope.ĭraftSight builds are available in both Debian and RPM packages on the product’s home page. ![]() DRAFTSIGHT TUTORIALS PDF FOR FREEAlthough this new app is not open source, it is the first professional-level package available for free on Linux that can read and write the industry-standard. ![]() DraftSight’s creator, Dassault Systèmes, is a well-known CAD shop most famous for its Windows product SolidWorks. Many computer-aided design (CAD) users in the Linux community were thrilled recently with the beta release of DraftSight, a freeware (meaning zero-cost-but-proprietary) CAD package for Linux, Windows, and Mac OS X. ![]()
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