Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2009 22:42:58 +0100 From: Roland Smith <rsmith@xs4all.nl> To: prad <prad@towardsfreedom.com> Cc: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: technical drawing program Message-ID: <20090122214258.GA8977@slackbox.xs4all.nl> In-Reply-To: <20090122123734.615f79a1@gom.home> References: <20090122123734.615f79a1@gom.home>
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On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 12:37:34PM -0800, prad wrote:
> any recommendations?
> i've tried dia and inkscape. the former seems to be good for flowcharts
> and general diagrams while the latter is great for all sorts of things,
> but i'd like to be able to do accurate geometric diagrams and was
> wondering if something more appropriate is available.
You could try graphics/xfig if you want an interactive graphical
program. Or cad/qcad for a real 2D drafting program.
For very accurate file-based drawing you could try the metapost
programming language {name of the binary: mpost(1)
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MetaPost]}, available from the
print/teTeX-base port. Or the Asymptote language from the math/asymptote
port. [http://asymptote.sourceforge.net/].
Roland
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