looking for simple line drawing program [Solved]

Lone_Wolf · 2011-04-03 00:03:12

I am looking for a simple line drawing program with the following features :

command-driven ( line, circle, ellips and such commands)
used commands need to be exportable or copyable
2D
a canvas with arbitrary size

libreoffice Draw, Koffice Karbon and xfig are not suitable for this.
I have some experience with Autocad, but no access to that anymore.

Any suggestions ?

Last edited by Lone_Wolf (2011-04-03 13:34:57)

keenerd · 2011-04-03 00:25:06

For really simple stuff (and extremely keyboard driven!) I'll make an SVG by hand. Any xml aware text editor works great. The spec is pretty simple. Use an image viewer that will automatically redraw when the SVG is updated.

karol · 2011-04-03 00:35:21

keenerd wrote:

For really simple stuff (and extremely keyboard driven!) I'll make an SVG by hand. Any xml aware text editor works great. The spec is pretty simple. Use an image viewer that will automatically redraw when the SVG is updated.

+1 http://www.w3schools.com/svg/tryit.asp? … 1&type=svg

I think TeX can draw alright.

A bunch of links - never tried them, don't know if they even work:
http://www.ribbonsoft.com/qcad.html
http://www.linuxcad.com/
http://ipe7.sourceforge.net/

Last edited by karol (2011-04-03 01:12:44)

XeCycle · 2011-04-03 03:40:19

Also, you may try MetaPost or Asymptote.

JackH79 · 2011-04-03 05:46:27

If you're comfortable with CAD, maybe have a look at librecad (package in the aur. Haven't tried it myself as I still have access to AutoCAD :-) but it looks nice and simple.

Lone_Wolf · 2011-04-03 13:34:38

SVG by hand : the stuff i need to do will include lots of basic elements, tricky to work with an editor then

qcad : commercial, older versions are open source version but lag behind (still uses Qt3)

linuxcad : commercial, and way overkill

ipe7 : produces postscript / pdf output from LaTex source
possibly useful, but i have no LaTex experience at all

metapost : limited to low-precision fixed-point representation, this is not suitable for me

asymptote : based on metapost , but without that limitation

librecad : based on qcad open source version, but ported to Qt4 and separate development

I'll look into librecad and asymptote.

Thanks for the response, marking as solved.

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looking for simple line drawing program [Solved]

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