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KnuckleBuckett

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Drawing Program
« on: July 07, 2008, 03:21:21 PM »
Do any of you Macintosh folks remember the MacDraw application?  I used it on the first and second generation Macs we had at GM.

It was a simple draw program that was easy to use.  I drew up the layouts for quite a few circuit boards using this application.

Getting to the point, is there a simple, easy to use, application out there to do simple layouts?  Most of the applications I have looked into are way to complicated and way to powerful.

I simply want to make basic box to box, line to line, box to triangle drawings.  Oh and not MS Word.  It is awful for that kind of thing.  That said it has most of the tools that I require, they are just too rigid to deal with efficiently.

I need something designed for children more than a high powered professional drawing application.  I have access to Visio 2003, AutoCAD and AutoCAD Lite but again I don't really want to deal with the learning curve.

Suggestions?  Free is always cool.
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Re: Drawing Program
« Reply #1 on: July 07, 2008, 03:25:50 PM »
I've never thought of Visio as having a high learning curve for basic things.

What type of layouts are we talking?  Flowcarts, org charts, circuits?
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Re: Drawing Program
« Reply #2 on: July 07, 2008, 03:31:45 PM »
Hard to explain.  I am attempting to show in graphic form a series of vacuum gauges, flow meters, filters, read-outs, and connection points.  Simple boxes, triangles, lines, etc. would work fine (per Word), however Word is not suited to the job.

Even Visio has a learning curve.  I may have no choice.  I used to be a whiz at the first couple of versions.  That's been a while though.
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Re: Drawing Program
« Reply #3 on: July 07, 2008, 03:34:04 PM »
OpenOffice has a "Draw" component. But it's more learning than Visio.

Inkscape maybe?

What's so hard about Visio? I don't think it gets much easier than that.
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Re: Drawing Program
« Reply #4 on: July 07, 2008, 03:37:06 PM »
OO Draw
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Re: Drawing Program
« Reply #5 on: July 07, 2008, 03:37:31 PM »
Quote from: tgm on July 07, 2008, 03:34:04 PM
OpenOffice has a "Draw" component. But it's more learning than Visio.

Inkscape maybe?

What's so hard about Visio? I don't think it gets much easier than that.

Visio is pretty powerful in it's own way.  Takes time to get fast with it.  Don't wanna spend the time.  May have to.
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Re: Drawing Program
« Reply #6 on: July 07, 2008, 05:06:09 PM »
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Re: Drawing Program
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