Auto-Cad replacement

[frost151n]

Hello,

Does any one know of a worth while open source Auto-Cad replacement???

Thnx

Frost

[rajeev1204]

There isnt any.

But you can try qcad .And if you find it good,please let me know.

One good thing is that all commands etc are similar to autocad.




regards

rajeev

[amauk]

There's Bricscad
http://www.bricscad.com/en_INTL/

Commercial product, but they support both Windows & Linux

[cb951303]

if you use autocad as a mcad than Siemens' CAD software works on linux. UniGraphics NX

[Thelasko]

if you use autocad as a mcad than Siemens' CAD software works on linux. UniGraphics NX

Yeah, most companies I've worked for don't use AutoCad/Autodesk anymore. It's all NX, Catia, Solidworks, or ProE. NX, <strike>Solidworks,</strike> <edit>CATIA</edit> and ProE are all available for Linux. Some are even available for certain types of Unix. I personally use NX 5 at work. I would have to say NX and Catia are the most powerful, but also, the most expensive.

[Thelasko]

if you use autocad as a mcad than Siemens' CAD software works on linux. UniGraphics NX

Yeah, most companies I've worked for don't use AutoCad/Autodesk anymore. It's all NX, Catia, Solidworks, or ProE. NX, Solidworks, and ProE are all available for Linux. Some are even available for certain types of Unix. I personally use NX 5 at work. I would have to say NX and Catia are the most powerful, but also, the most expensive.

[Thelasko]

Sorry, the forums seem to be glitchy today.

[grotto]

Solidworks is available for Linux?

[cb951303]

only commercial mcads available for linux are varicad and nx. catia is available for some kind of unix but it doesn't work in linux. solidworks (my favourite) is unfortunately only available in windows.

NX is pretty decent though. It' more capable than SW. I would say it's on par with Catia.

[mips]

Solidworks is available for Linux?

Not that I know of for Solidworks.

Catia had Unix support prior to V6. Dunno why they only support windows now.

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=112116

What does Audi use? http://www.hoise.com/primeur/06/articles/live/LV-PL-06-06-28.html

[Thelasko]

Solidworks is available for Linux?

Sorry, I meant CATIA

[Thelasko]

only commercial mcads available for linux are varicad and nx. catia is available for some kind of unix but it doesn't work in linux. solidworks (my favourite) is unfortunately only available in windows.

NX is pretty decent though. It' more capable than SW. I would say it's on par with Catia.

NX and Catia are CAE (computer aided engineering) where SolidWorks is only CAD (computer aided design).

For some reason I thought Catia worked with Linux, but I was mistaken. I wonder if it will work with OpenSolaris.

[cb951303]

NX and Catia are CAE (computer aided engineering) where SolidWorks is only CAD (computer aided design).

For some reason I thought Catia worked with Linux, but I was mistaken. I wonder if it will work with OpenSolaris.

no solaris support too. It was an old unix system I guess. HP maybe?

What you are talking about is bundled packages. SW and NX can be bought CAD only.

[mips]

I wonder if it will work with OpenSolaris.

No. Since V6 it only runds on Windows.

[Thelasko]

No. Since V6 it only runds on Windows.

A few years ago I remember having a Sun workstation in my office to use CATIA. No one in my office knew what to do with it.

I've since changed jobs, but at my current job I was running UG on an HP-UX 11 machine up until last year. Now everybody uses Windows.

It kinda seems like the world of CAE is moving backwards.:(

[mips]

it kinda seems like the world of cae is moving backwards.:(

+1

[frost151n]

Thanx all you guys. I'll check them all out!

[Battalion]

Has anyone tried to Wine install Solidworks? i'm very interested in knowing if it works under ubuntu as well as it does on windows, it is the only reason why i still dual boot!!

I WANT TO LEAVE WINDOWS XP!!

[grotto]

Has anyone tried to Wine install Solidworks? i'm very interested in knowing if it works under ubuntu as well as it does on windows, it is the only reason why i still dual boot!!

I WANT TO LEAVE WINDOWS XP!!

It has a garbage (http://appdb.winehq.org/appview.php?iAppId=318) rating on Wine's AppDB. Someone posted (http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=version&iId=13121) that they could get it installed, however.

[mips]

I suppose it would be slow running on XP in Virtualbox?

[Thelasko]

I suppose it would be slow running on XP in Virtualbox?

I suppose it won't run at all considering most of these programs require hardware rendering.

P.S. System Requirements (http://www.solidworks.com/sw/support/SystemRequirements.html)

[Battalion]

True, that is why i always try to avoid virtualbox when installing such graphic and hardware intensive programs, for such, wine is probably best (if it can do it that is). Even SolidEdge would probably give similar problems coz its so much like Solidworks!