Posted by javiersegurar on Sep 01, 2011; 4:13pm
URL: https://forum.librecad.org/Would-like-to-help-in-LibreCAD-tp4758958.html

Hello!

First of all, thank You very much for such great work and for make possible a really Libre CAD option to the world.

I would like to try to help, and by know may be only testing and reporting/suggesting things  ( I may also help with spanish support but as I already checked the traslation is already made, I am electromechanical engineer and working mainly in wiring and piping designs for buildings, so not sure if this may help in a future, and live & work in Costa Rica, Central America).

One of the reasons that I was so happy to found Your project, is that in my country, at my local Construction Enginneers Autorithy (CFIA in my country), was in the past heavily bad managed to stablish Aut*c@d as a obligate software for design and dwg the only one format for manage and get approval for drawings and schematics of buildings and infraestructure construction projects (this headed by the happy "help" of Aut*desk local representatives (since the later happy hunting for license fees, over a group of users, profesionals and small companies) and after that was legal stablished, they start to chase and there was cases of legal harassment against users that were not with up to date with ac@d licenses, BUT THIS BECAUSE THE SYSTEM ALMOST FORCES AND MAKE AN OBLIGATION TO USE AUT*C@D!!!...  >:-( ). This was so awfull, and me and others start, since around 3 years ago, to complain and asking for the change to allow at least that PDF was allowed as a digital documents format for that purposes, so other CADs options could be used as a free choice of every person.Well the good times delay to come, but lucky, around several weeks ago, the goverment make a strong regulation, that stablish PDF as the default digital doc format for the intended use, so now is possible to work with any CAD software of choice without be persecuted by a giant company and their lawyers.

Well, the things now, is that at CFIA site, now only choices of comercial CADs are available (Aut*C@D, Vect*rsWorks, ZWC@D, BRICSC@D, ArchiC@D and others) and I would like to try help / promote that LibreCAD could be included as option.

Well, by now, the only option to help that I have just now is a Paypal, so, I made a personal little donation, that is all I could do by the moment, appart form installed the LibreCAD repo for ubuntu and start to testing the dev version and try to help.

Thanks again for such great work and best regards to all.

Javier