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shakes808what would you suggest for a free cad type program?  Want to do some wood working projects and want to draw up plans00:00
cmaloneyDepends on what you want to do with those plans00:03
shakes808build my plans :)00:04
shakes808what do you mean?00:04
cmaloneyI mean are you looking just to do some back-of-the-envelope modeling, actual CAD, feed this into a machine?00:05
shakes808ummm. back-of-the-envelope?00:06
cmaloneyhttps://brlcad.org/00:07
cmaloneyhttps://www.freecadweb.org/00:07
shakes808thank you00:09
shakes808I will check them out00:09
shakes808which is one that is for a "non" cad person?00:09
cmaloneyBlender00:10
cmaloneyFuck if I know. :)00:10
shakes808haha00:10
cmaloneyhttps://github.com/solvespace/solvespace/tree/v2.300:11
hpuckshuh.  lubuntu still comes with pidgin?00:11
hpuckswhat year is it?00:11
cmaloneyThere's still people who use Pidgin00:12
hpucksYeah, I kinda forgot about it00:18
jrwrenmy wife still uses pidgin.00:25
jrwrenpidgin works adn works well.00:25
jrwrenand she prefers firefox and thunderbird... but... prefers it... on windows ;_;00:26
cmaloneyblergh00:32
cmaloneyWell they can't all be winners00:33
rick_hshakes808: for woodworking that Google project is the best thing going. /Me forgets the name.00:45
shakes808rick_h: sketchup?00:46
rick_hshakes808: that's the one00:46
shakes808so how do you make it work on ubuntu?  they have  a windows and mac installer but no generic linux.00:46
rick_hshakes808: vm basically00:47
rick_hshakes808: nothing I'd bear to use in Ubuntu unfortunately00:47
shakes808gotcha00:48
rick_h:(00:51
cmaloneyI thought Sketchup was abandoned?00:55
shakes808looks like it is still  active02:19
shakes808i guess i will have to install it on my windows partition.  :| trying to get away from windows :(02:21

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