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News Release from: CAD Schroer | Subject: Medusa4 Personal
Edited by the Engineeringtalk Editorial
Team on 17 January 2008
Free design software supports Linux
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Medusa4 Personal users can benefit from additional functionality and support for the current versions of CentOS, Fedora, Mandriva, RedHat, SuSE and Ubuntu Linux.
CAD Schroer Group (CSG) has released the latest version of its free personal use version of the Medusa4 design automation suite, available for Windows and six different Linux distributions The 2D/3D CAD solution now also includes a sheet metal design module
This article was originally published on Engineeringtalk on 18 Sep 2006 at 8.00am (UK)
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CAD Schroer Group (CSG) has announced the release of version 2.2 of its renowned Medusa4 design automation suite.
CAD Schroer released the commercial version of Medusa4 3.0.1 in Autumn 2007.
Now Medusa4 Personal users can benefit from additional functionality and support for the current versions of the following Linux distributions: CentOS, Fedora, Mandriva, RedHat, SuSE and Ubuntu .
"Medusa4 Personal offers almost all of the functionality available in our most advanced Medusa4 package, including basic 3D (sheet-based modeling), parametrics and all of Medusa4's drafting power tools, like Smart Edit and hidden line removal", explains Medusa4 Product Line Manager Mark Simpson.
"Now users can also try our simple and powerful integrated sheet metal design module".
Enhancements on the drafting side include full truetype/operating system font and Unicode (multilanguage) support, easier top-down and bottom-up design, a new parts balloon tool and parts list table and more intelligence in the Smart Edit tool.
Medusa4 Personal is expressly restricted to noncommercial use.
Small technical differences from the commercial version include a different sheet format, watermarked print output and the ability to import from, but not export to, DXF/DWG format.
The commercial version is highly customisable, while Medusa4 Personal is not.
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