Re: Calculations and CAD packages

> From: Martyn J. Wheeler [email removed]
> Subject: Re: Calculations and CAD packages
>
> Wildstar says:
> >I tried one of the available CAD packages several years ago.  [...]
>
> With the advent of laser printers (not that *I* have one), your
> concerns about the quality of hardcopy output are probably less
> significant these days.

  I've done some plans with ClarisCAD on a SE/30 and it came out ok IMHO.

  Of course, I still have to compute the number of squares of each type of
compartment by hand and I've had some problems in making fit them into
something shiplike.

  What it does automate on the other hand is the drawing of the 1.5m deck
squares... (oops, hope they keep the 1.5m squares in TNE...) and once I had
a library of chairs, autogalleys and couches, the crew areas are rather easy
to detail.

  It is the drives that are the real pain.

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