SteamCAD

2D CAD especially designed to draw steam locomotives

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What it is

2D CAD especially designed to draw steam locomotives

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Where it is used

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I love how specific yet comprehensive this package is. The manual appears to be lovingly crafted and from what I can tell, well written [1]. I don't know how many people are…

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Period	Start (UTC)	End (exclusive, UTC)	Mentions	Submissions	Comments
2020	2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	3	1	2
2021	2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	0	0	0
2022	2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	0	0	0
2023	2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	1	0	1

What Hacker News says

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app4soft·Sep 26, 2023

Author decided to move SteamCAD (and SteamCAD2) from GitHub[0,1] to SourceForge[2,3]. [0] https://github.com/oskardolch/SteamCAD [1] https://github.com/oskardolch/SteamCAD2 [2] https://sourceforge.net/projects/steamcad [3] https://sourceforge.net/projects/steamcad2

In SteamCAD moved to SourceForge

Rexxar·Apr 2, 2020

It's quite strange, the problem is more visible when I click directly on the image (https://github.com/oskardolch/SteamCAD/blob/master/Images/26...). Then my browser freeze 2/3 seconds after the image is rendered. So it's probably not the image itself that cause the problem but the GitHub file visualizer.

In SteamCAD – 2D CAD designed to draw steam locomotives

mmastrac·Apr 1, 2020Recommendation phrase

I love how specific yet comprehensive this package is. The manual appears to be lovingly crafted and from what I can tell, well written [1]. I don't know how many people are specifically looking to draw CAD diagrams of steam locomotives, but I absolutely love that this was someone's itch to scratch and they put so much time into this. [1] https://github.com/oskardolch/SteamCAD/blob/master/SteamCAD....

In SteamCAD – 2D CAD designed to draw steam locomotives

app4soft·Apr 1, 2020Submission

SteamCAD – 2D CAD designed to draw steam locomotives

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