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    CAD

    Anybody here with CAD experience on Linux?

    A mate is interested but cannot do without CAD. I checked and *.dxf is no problem - QCad appears to be working fine. However, he also uses *.dwg files and I haven't spotted a programme capable of doing that

    Any hints/tips/links greatly appreciated!
    Once your problem is solved please mark the topic of the first post as SOLVED so others know and can benefit from your experience! / FAQ
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    Re: CAD

    Does he have any experience with AutoCAD on Windows? Even better if he has a copy of it because the 2k version works beautifully with WINE on a Linux compy.
    The early bird might get the worm, but it's the second mouse who always gets the cheese.
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      Re: CAD

      Point was to get away from windows... I will ask, however - thanks for the info.

      Still looking for native stuff though, any offers?
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        Re: CAD

        No personal experience here, but this page has some interesting possibilities:

        http://www.tech-edv.co.at/lunix/CADlinks.html

        I guess you're trying to narrow the field, huh?
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          Re: CAD

          Nice one dibl, thank you.

          I've tested the waters, but wondered, whether anybody here had any hands-on experience.
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            Re: CAD

            I have a lot of experience with AutoCAD and MicroStation... QCAD really falls short, but is still the best I have found.

            There was a version of MicroStation for Linux a long time ago (a few years, maybe more)... he could look into that... but I think it hasn't been updated for two major release cycles...
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              Re: CAD

              Sounds bad."really falls short" - didn't want to read those words. But thank you for letting me know.
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                Re: CAD

                Yep. I happen to work in an engineering company, and I can testify that professional design engineers expect to pay serious $$$ for a good CAD system, regardless of the OS that runs it.
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                  Re: CAD

                  Hi, I am looking for an entry-level CAD program to open .dwg files. Your link has a bewildering list, Qcad apparently can't do .dwg, any recommendations?
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                    Re: CAD

                    Originally posted by toad
                    Sounds bad."really falls short" - didn't want to read those words. But thank you for letting me know.
                    http://appdb.winehq.org/appview.php?iAppId=86

                    I've never tried wine with AutoCAD, but might be worth a look.
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                      Re: CAD

                      I've used VariCAD for Linux and that can handle .dwg files (I'm fairly certain of this). The problem I have is that it does not have kinematic constraints (i.e. for making movable mechanisms), so depending on your uses, it may or may not be suitable.

                      Personally, I use Solidworks running on a virtual Windows XP machine using VirtualBox.
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                        Re: CAD

                        Originally posted by finifly

                        Personally, I use Solidworks running on a virtual Windows XP machine using VirtualBox.
                        I would think a Win XP VM under either VBox or VMware Player would really open up the CAD choices. Of course, there goes $$ for a Win XP license ....

                        I run a very resource-intensive genealogy database on a Win XP VM in VMware Player on my Kubuntu box, and it is as solid as a rock, at least it is now that I put it on an ext3 filesystem instead of XFS. It is a custom MS Visual FoxPro application -- probably not unlike a CAD application in terms of relational database complexity, CPU I/O, and memory usage. When I was attempting to migrate it to a Linux platform, I first installed Win XP on a disk partition on the same platform, and ran a data-indexing benchmark test. Then I installed the VM and ran the same test on the database. On VMware Player I got 95% as fast performance as on the native Win XP installation, so that was good enough for my purposes (I bought a pretty fast CPU in the first place). I would expect similar results on a CAD application like Autocad or Solidworks.
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                          Re: CAD

                          Originally posted by dibl
                          I would expect similar results on a CAD application like Autocad or Solidworks.
                          I have no experience with wine, but I would be concerned about opengl acceleration which I think is a must for cad.
                          FKA: tanderson
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                            Re: CAD

                            Originally posted by tanderson

                            I would be concerned about opengl acceleration which I think is a must for cad.
                            Ahhhh -- yes, I forgot about that. All you're going to get in VMware is SVGA -- no 3D acceleration, because of the faux graphics device.

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                              Quick recap - if you require 3D acceleration for CAD, you either run it natively under Linux or you don't run it at all - correct?

                              If you do not require 3D stuff, VariCAD does the trick just fine incl. dxf and dwg files.
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