On Wednesday 25 June 2014 15:14:02 you wrote: > On 06/25/2014 02:40 PM, zxq9 wrote: > > On Wednesday 25 June 2014 13:29:05 you wrote: > >> Hi All, > >> > >> I occasionally need to do some drafting. About > >> 25 years ago I knew AutoCad somewhat. Currently, > >> I need to do some minor landscape architecture. > >> > > > > LibreCAD (not QCad) > > > > LibreCAD should replace QCad for all intents and purposes. It was a fork > > of > > QCad that has grown into something much more interesting. I used to > > package > > it, but haven't had time to work on LibreCAD or packaging for a long time > > (so my existing packages which would work on SL6 are way out of date). > > Anyway, installing it from source (or packaging it) was a snap on Fedora > > 14 and still should be rather easy. > > > > Thank you! > > What do you think of this spin? > > http://rpm.pbone.net/index.php3/stat/4/idpl/23356724/dir/redhat_el_6/com/lib > recad-2.0.0rc1.git20130625-2.1.x86_64.rpm.html Give it a whirl. Its nice that someone got v2 packaged for RHEL6! :-) Build it from source and see if you like that better (probably a few bug fixes and new GUI tools or something). Anyway, don't be afraid of it. Its a pretty easy project to deal with, especially the new codebase, and the community is nice.