Vincent Béron wrote: > Le mer 03/07/2002 à 11:39, Andreas Mohr a écrit : > >>On Wed, Jul 03, 2002 at 01:33:46AM +0300, P. Christeas wrote: >> >>>My view is that we should focus on professional apps, such as CAD, some >>>multimedia etc. There is professionals that won't switch to Linux until some >>>unique apps they use can run under Linux. Games are an issue, too. >> >>Very true. >>IMHO AutoCAD is *very* important, as it's considered to be a leading CAD >>package, with no UNIX version, ever. > > > Was a leading CAD package. It's still vastly used, but (in my > experience) mostly to get access to old drawings. Newer stuff gets > designed on SolidWorks, ProE, Catia, Mechanical Desktop and a couple > others which do real 3D.
Just barely on topic, hope people don't mind... So, any hints on which would be a good one to get? I am planning to buy a mechanical CAD package, and would then attempt to fix any bugs to get it running under wine. I have managed to do fairly well getting my Xilinx FPGA software working (though getting the patches committed has been a little harder), so I figure I would try a CAD package, too. My needs are pretty simple, so I don't really want the high dollar stuff, perhaps under $1K (the further under the better ;)? I would be doing things like mechanical drawings for machining front panels and brackets for electronic equipment (which I have done in Autocad in the past).