How to Install Inventor 2009 (Autodesk)

[Gnimmelf]

Hi
I am a rookie running Ubuntu, and would like to know how to install Inventor 2009 on this system.
Does anyone have expiriense with that ??
regards Gnimmelf

[Steven_B]

When I last checked, Autodesk doesn't support Linux at all. Your choices are to try to install Inventor in Wine, or to use a Windows in a virtual machine.
With Wine, your chances aren't good:
http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=application&iId=5719

With VirtualBox (http://virtualbox.org), or another virtual machine the trick is getting hardware graphics acceleration. It's possible to use software OpenGL, but it's painfully slow if you have more than a few parts.