I agree that GIF's are a good solution for many, if not most, of the
smaller
detail drawings posted here, but for specific tasks, such as the 1:1
printable version of the LeMans PP housing that Jerry was asking
for,
or
larger more complex drawings (like the fully annotated PSRU mount
plate
drawing), a CAD drawing is required.

IntelliCAD provides the functionality to cover the basic ACRE's
drawing/viewing needs of any WIN users willing to do a 13mb
download.
Is
there not an AutoCAD .DWG/DXF format compatable CAD program
available
under
Linux? How many solely apple users are there here, who have no
existing way
to view a DWG/DXF?

This is now a huge group right? 1000+ people? If we wait for 100%
compliance, we will never have a drawing standard other than GIF.
Mark Wrathall

A dwg file won't do you much good unless you have a cad
program that can read it. That is even more to expect.  That is
everybody
have a cad program and know how to use it.

Paul Lamar

I have obtained CADintosh. Using Mac OS 10.2.

It would be appreciated if someone could give me an URL where I could
download a DWG/DFX file. This could serve to see how difficult (or
easy) would it be to read it.

I am waiting.

Alfonso Lebron-Berges

There is no such thing as a standard dwg or dxf file.
Just because you can read one does not mean you can read them all.

Paul Lamar

Then I would assume that a CAD program is half worthless. Am I wrong?

Alfonso Lebron-Berges

No it is not half worthless. Just one CAD program cannot talk to
another. Heck one ACAD version cannot talk to another ACAD
version.

Paul Lamar
 
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