technical drawing program

[Roland Smith]

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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