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nhaeck
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Re: FreeCAD & Lisp

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Hi, I am a seasoned autocad engineer, and with autolisp I could fabricate perfect 2D drawings in a matter of seconds or at most minutes, using the tempate of autocad, which I modified a bit. And even better, I have employed 2 more autocad engineers who had secured their work this way. So Autocad definitely worked with the use of the templates and autolisp, well worth the purchase price of autocad (the 3 licences).

Now FreeCad is FREE and with Python I guess I can program the same things like templates.. All I am concerned of, is how to use the touch templates... I had A2 touch tablets which worked like a charm.

Kind Regards, Nils Haeck
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Re: FreeCAD & Lisp

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Hi,
I believe this shouldn't be a problem... Qt (which powers the interface of FreeCAD) manages touch devices pretty well, you should be able to get the input of your touch tablets the same way as any other device like a mouse. Have a look at pyside, the python bindings for Qt, which works flawlessly in freecad.
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Re: FreeCAD & Lisp

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+1 for touch device support
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Re: FreeCAD & Lisp

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@nhaeck: If all you want is to make automated 2D drawings I'm not sure if FreeCAD is really what you want to use.
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