# mkdir -p /usr/local/portage/media-gfx/draftsight-bin/files # cp /home/fitzcarraldo/Downloads/b /usr/portage/distfiles/draftsight-1.6.1_b In the end I copied the ebuild and its files sub-directory to /usr/local/portage/media-gfx/draftsight-bin/ in my local overlay, disconnected from the network and merged the package: 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’. 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. Hint: there’s now a much better way than using the FLATTEN command.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. That’s it! The next CAD tip will discuss how to flatten the 3D object into a 2D object. Position the object as desired relative to the origin point.Click in empty space when the object is oriented properly. Select the circle in the plane of rotation.Change to Hidden visual style. Select the 3D object and get the Rotate gizmo.The object appears but orientation needs correcting.When the white and blue button in the lower right says “completed,” click on the button, right-click, and choose “Insert.”.Select the STEP file and hit OPEN. Close the dialog box that says it’s processing.Make sure the Files of Type selector is set to STEP files.Go Insert tab > Import panel > Import button.Make sure you’re in the 3D Modeling workspace.This is part of a project I completed recently with much trial and error, so I hope this tip, along with an upcoming Part 2, will save you a lot of time and angst. The video shows the process of importing a highly detailed 3D speaker file. This post shows how to import a STEP file into AutoCAD, and how to change the 3D object’s orientation to align properly with the view cube and standard AutoCAD views. To see the YouTube video version of this tip, CLICK_HERE, or just click on the video at the bottom of this post. This tip is the first of this site’s tips to be supplemented with a video version of the tip, both here and on YouTube.
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