On Wed, 12 Jul 2017 21:44:48 +0100, Peter Flynn wrote: >On 07/12/2017 08:45 PM, Joao Monteiro wrote: >> I have been using Turbocad for nearly two decades and rely heavily >> on it for my electric schematics. Sadly, the software >> authors/company never provided any drivers for linux. And after a >> fairly deep search for alternatives, the odd couple of them >> available are exceedingly inadequate and unstable in behaviour for >> my cad needs. > >Have you tried Codeweavers WINE? It's a well-supported commercial fork >of WINE, which provides a Windows environment inside Linux/Mac. I use >it on the occasions where I specifically need to use Microsoft Word >instead of Libre Office. I think it's $50 or something like that. You >will need a fast machine with lots of memory but IMHO it's well worth >it.
I just noticed that I confused CAD with CNC. So if real-time abilities aren't important, than indeed using wine or a VM should do the job. However, for PCB design there's eagle available for Linux and for perfboard design there's DIYLC available for Linux. I've got both installed but IIRC I only once used GIMP for a perfboard layout. Eagle seems to be usable for multi-layer PCBs. >From my Arch Linux install: [rocketmouse@archlinux ~]$ pacman -Qi eagle diylc | grep URL URL : http://www.autodesk.com/products/eagle URL : https://code.google.com/p/diy-layout-creator/ -- xubuntu-users mailing list xubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/xubuntu-users
