From: linuxcad@mw.idsonline.com
Subject: COMMERCIAL: LinuxCAD
Date: Wed,22 Apr 1998 02:24:40+2000


   New high quality professional CAD software has been introduced
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by the company from Illinois
                     http://www.linuxcad.com
    Freedom of Choice CAD  ( or also known under title LinuxCAD ) is a Computer Aided Drafting  
 package in many aspects analogous to well known product AutoCAD of Autodesk Inc.
    LinuxCAD has been developed absolutely independently from scratch , it is a native Linux 
 application.
 The outline of the main features:
 1)  LinuxCAD provides great variety of entity types ( lines , circles , ellipses , traces , text ,
polylines , solids , doughnuts , arcs , user defined entities and 3D entities ) ,
 2)  LinuxCAD allows implements necessary editing features ( scale ,
 rotate , mirror , offset , array , copy , move  ... ).  
 3) Allows up to 1000 layers, with ability to   control layer color and visibility independently. 
 4) All entities are transferable to and from  AutoCAD through DXF exchange format.
 5) Supports user defined line types and load able fonts in SHX format. 
 6) Supports a hardcopy to printers.
 7) Parts of the drawing can be copied between different instances of the LinuxCAD using X-Clipboard.
 8) LinuxCAD has industry standard Motif GUI.
 9)  Allows users to write custom applications for automating typical editing and drafting tasks
  using industry most popular C-compiler GCC.
   To learn more about LinuxCAD ( or Freedom of Choice CAD ) visit web page
                                                                  http://www.linuxcad.com 
  Although sold as a commercial software LinuxCAD is still priced  at very competitive low price 
of $65 and  $40 for full time students.
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