John The project I am building involves engineering illustration and speculative science illustration. Its a given that there are $10,000+ workstations and $1,000+ software like AutoCAD and Pro/E. I was willing to spend the money a few years back, but I decided that the tools I use would need to be obtainable by my target audience and I am committed to Linux migration for its superior qualities. After buying Photoshop, and seeing that I was moving to Linux, I realized that I could not afford to pursue expensive software for a windows environment while in transition. Many of the powerful tools are still in windows and, although there is WINE, Linux has to catch up. Fortunately I found Blender to have many of the qualities I was looking for. I am monitoring some Linux/CAD forums and hoping to hear more about potential software. There doesn't seem to be a freeware 3D CAD program for Linux that is AutoCAD equivalent, or even close. Its my observation that Linux is in graphic infancy and I am having to backtrack to windows for a while, but my fastest box is now set to run Blender.
Brian -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of john fleming Sent: Friday, July 04, 2003 5:28 PM To: The Eugene Unix and GNU/Linux User Group's mail list Subject: Re: [eug-lug]Happiness is a working Nvidia video card baggab wrote: >Hey, I know I'm in the slow lane, but the tortoise won the race. For >the unwashed millions who are struggling with RedHat 8.0, and are either >engineers or artists, we are open for business. > >Note: sound card /w help, 10 hours; video card /w 52 page readme, 1 hour > > I have a lot of interest in linux,graphics,game programming,3d stuff ,nvidia cards. I'd like to know what sort of programs you use,and would like to use in your work. john fleming _______________________________________________ EuG-LUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.efn.org/cgi-bin/listinfo/eug-lug _______________________________________________ EuG-LUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.efn.org/cgi-bin/listinfo/eug-lug
