GPL-Licensed QCAD Ported to Mac OS X

AlwaysTimeForCoffee writes "QCad, a free open-source 2D CAD system for Linux, various Unices and Windows, from RibbonSoft, has been ported to a native OS X version by Gilbert Duivesteijn. A screenshot of the OS X version can be found here. Qcad is a light, GPL'd version of the commercial available CAM Expert. It truely is an outstanding program and has earned 5 out of 5 Penguins on Tucow's Linuxberg and IceWalker review. With this native OS X release, a commercial quality CAD system has been made available to the Apple community."

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Apple needs to attract some CAD companies

[xtal]

I'd love to use apple workstations, but they need to get out there and make some sells to the big names - someone has to listen, because I am sick of paying mad money to buy overpriced Sun crap to run EDA tools because there's not much choice for >4GB workstations, and sick of bugs in Windows versions of software.. and I want Unix, damnit!

QCad. I'm sure it's a nice package. But 2D? That's so 1980's. Apple should get some hot sales reps over to some big names.. an open source package being made to run (non native) isn't worthy of news.

How about any one of the following, that would immediately justify the purchase of a G5 for me.. although I'll break down eventually, ha. These would be news:

On the mech front:

Solidworks
AutoCAD
Pro/Engineer
UniGraphics

On the EE front:

Synopsys Anything
Cadence Anything
Hell even OrCAD..
Mentor Graphics Anything..

Come on, apple! The memory limit is gone, so get some big guys on board.

Re:Apple needs to attract some CAD companies

[Tombstone-f]

Then you should try out VectorWorks.
It imports and exports to AutoCad very easily.