

deb file could not be downloaded (despite it already being in the distfiles directory). However the ebuild would not install the package whatever I tried: Portage gave an error message that the. So I added the betagarden overlay using Layman, downloaded the file b (DraftSight 2015 beta) from the DraftSight Web site and copied it to /usr/portage/distfiles/draftsight-1.6.1_b as specified in the ebuild, and issued the usual emerge command to merge the package. The package is a proprietary binary package, the Gentoo ebuild is named media-gfx/draftsight-bin and the current version in the betagarden overlay is 1.6.1_beta. The Gentoo Linux betagarden overlay has ebuilds for releases of DraftSight Free. I thought this would suit my purposes, as it can read and write DWG and DXF files (see the features page on the DraftSight Web site). Apart from the commercial versions DraftSight Professional and DraftSight Enterprise, there is also a free version, DraftSight Free, which is billed as ‘straightforward 2D CAD software for students, hobbyists and other individuals’.
#Draftsight 2016 features mac os#
and is available for Windows, Mac OS and Linux. Recently I found out about DraftSight, which is produced by Dassault Systèmes SolidWorks Corp. So I had been looking for an alternative for quite a while. And the 2009 version of VariCAD Viewer could not open more-recent AutoCAD files. Versions from more recent years would either not install at all or would install but not run correctly. It was the only version that I could get to work correctly in Gentoo Linux. I occasionally have to view AutoCAD files and had been using a 2009 version of VariCAD Viewer for Linux, installed from an RPM package using the rpm command in Gentoo Linux.
