On Thursday 19 April 2007 03:11, Clayton wrote: > I know this is an oft asked question, but... well, I'm going to ask it > again to see if anyone here has recently been playing with getting > AutoCAD working in Wine Some guy did a few years did in South Africa. > > A friend of mine is asking me if he can use AutoCAD with Linux (wants > to move to Linux at some point, and this is the last blocker). I've > done some digging and AutoCAD 2002 seems to be working reasonably well > in Wine (or Crossover). Beyond that version though, there is a > noticeable lack of information. Has anyone here had any success with > newer versions of AutoCAD in Linux?
Safe to assume that the latest versions not play nice. > > We toyed with the idea of running a VMware instance, but that was > discarded as overkill since the end user would simply be running Linux > to run VMWare to run AutoCAD. Not much point there. > > AutoCAD is a fixed requirement in this situation, and native Linux > alternatives cannot be used. Long story that is not worth repeating > here... suffice to say, AutoCAD is a must. Not much in CAD but you may want to take a look at http://www.brlcad.org/ > > C. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
