[LAD] [OT] vector drawing software

[nescivi]

On Tuesday 29 July 2008 09:05:46 Fons Adriaensen wrote:
> Anyone knows a good vector drawing program for Linux ?
>
> Absolute requirements are:
>
> - Lines, arrows, boxes, circles, etc.
> - Linewidths and styles, colors, filling.
> - Text
> - PDF or PS export.
> - PNG and JPEG import (no bitmap editing required).
> - Accuracy.
>
> I've been using TGIF for years, but I'm more and
> more being blocked by its main flaw which is that
> it seems to use a unit of 0.2mm internally (in
> metric mode) which is orders of magnitude too big.
>
> Tried QCAD and INKSCAPE, both fail basic
> requirements (and have other problems).

Did you look at PythonCAD?
I did some technical drawings with that...

And... when you need to have things in Latex eventually... pstricks helped me 
out for my dissertation making mathematical drawings. You have to type all 
your lines and so on, but I found that much faster than trying to draw 
something in a graphical environment.

There are also some tools to make an eps from a ps, so that it is not full 
page size anymore... ps2eps or something like that...


Actually, I am looking for some 3D software for drawing 3D structures. 
Eventual output format needed is STL...

sincerely,
Marije