is there autocad for linux/ubutnu ???

[MaximB]

my mom workes with autocad 14 and 2000 on windows 95 (yeah right...)
I want to convert all her office to use ubuntu
so I need a legal/free autocad software that works on linux.
or if you don't have free/opensource , maybe a pay version for linux/ubuntu ???

the autocad I mean is :
http://usa.autodesk.com/adsk/servlet...112&id=2704278

[christhemonkey]

Like Qcad?
http://www.ribbonsoft.com/qcad.html

Or pythoncad?
http://www.pythoncad.org/

[deadgobby]

There is quite a bit of CAD for Unix and Linux.

A professional CAD System
With QCad 2 you can easily construct and change drawings with ISO-texts and
many other features and save them as DXF-files. These DXF-files are the
interface to many CAD-systems such as AutoCADR and many others.
That is in Synaptic.
http://www.linuxcad.com/
http://www.architectafrica.com/bin0/...1111_wine.html
http://appdb.winehq.org/appview.php?iVersionId=102
The bottem link shows that Wine was able to run the program you mechen. So that is good.
Gobby

[halfvolle melk]

Here's a Dutch site about various CAD programs but the table speaks for itself:
http://www.cad4linux.nl/cms/page.php?2

This one, again a Dutch site looks pretty good and Autocad-ish
http://www.bricscad.nl/products/desi...cad/images.jsp

This one looks pretty good as well and is geared to mechanical engineering:
http://www.varicad.com/

Here's one that's likely to be for architectural stuff:
http://www.cycas.de/

[MaximB]

thanks for the replays
but is there a free autocad for linux ?

[jethro10]

Originally Posted by MAXDDARK thanks for the replays but is there a free autocad for linux ?

Nope. Just some look-alikes and similar programs as mentioned above.

J

[deadgobby]

Originally Posted by MAXDDARK thanks for the replays but is there a free autocad for linux ?

The only good Autocads you need to shell out some cash for. If you mom still has a copy of the Autocad she runs. As mechen above it seems to run ok in Wine. A old friend of mine has a sunspark Unix machine and he ran Autocad on that. Pretty slick I thought.
Gobby

[Emiel-NL]

Originally Posted by MAXDDARK thanks for the replays but is there a free autocad for linux ?

Qcad has a free version, its in the ubuntu repo's!


Hier is a dutch review, maybe you can translate with babel fish altavista: http://www.cad4linux.nl/cms/e107_plu....php?content.9

[calvinthomas]

Although I have no experience of it, LinuxCAD apparently is good, its not free though, its about $100 I think

Calv

[MaximB]

Originally Posted by Emiel-NL Qcad has a free version, its in the ubuntu repo's! Hier is a dutch review, maybe you can translate with babel fish altavista: http://www.cad4linux.nl/cms/e107_plu....php?content.9

I don't know dutch except "ein" "zvai" "drai"...
is there a page in english ?