Today I mentioned that the DraftSight's deb and rpm files have been updated since January's 17 but there was no information about that. No mail notification, not even a post on DraftSight's community. However this new V1R1.4 version of DraftSight is important for linux users.
The bad news:
- First of all, it fixes the problem of the misnamed dependency on Ubuntu 11.10. You don't need anymore libxcb-render-util0 from Natty.
- It has working STL export, a very important feature for linux users. Now you can convert 3d dwg files in a format that can be used with Blender and other Linux applications.
The bad news:
- The problem with Ubuntu Software Center remains: You still need to install DraftSight with gdebi.
- A very stupid new bug appears and I cannot understand why. DraftSight re-named the startup script from DraftSight to draftsight. Why was this so important? Because the menu entry continues to point to /opt/dassault-systemes/draftsight/bin/DraftSight instead of the correct new path /opt/dassault-systemes/draftsight/bin/draftsight. So you cannot launch DraftSight from your menu unless you edit the menu with alacarte, the menu editor of GNOME or a similar utility in other Desktop Environments.
Launching alacarte from Unity
Editing the DraftSight's menu entry with alacatre
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