Linux (Ubuntu) for engineers...

[Showan]

hi

is there any chance to run Inventor/autocad/MDT with a Windows Emulator?
Not regarding the fact that some functions need Excell

thanks

[bernardfrancois]

If you really need to run a windows application, I would advice you to run it under windows, if you already have a windows license.

Otherwise, you can check the site of wine. There's a database with information about many windows programs (and how they run emulated using wine).

But this is out of the scope of this thread, maybe there's a thread specific about autocad on these forums, or you could open one (also, more people will give you usefull replies there since the title of the thread will be more to the point).

[adamkat]

I backported the latest taxmaker but am not able to set the paths of each indevidual program.
I am a linux beginner so please explain in detail.
Thanks

[neoflight]

I backported the latest taxmaker but am not able to set the paths of each indevidual program.
I am a linux beginner so please explain in detail.
Thanks

aaaaaahhh ! .... i had the same problem again...

just locate where the latex is installed... and thats the path u need to set in there. everything else seems ok.

which latex are u planning to use? tetex2, tetex3 or texlive2005?

[bernardfrancois]

I backported the latest taxmaker but am not able to set the paths of each indevidual program.
I am a linux beginner so please explain in detail.
Thanks

Please don't do double posting. You already posted the same question at http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=121368 .

But you mentioned a program here that I'm going to try out

But please continue the discussion about your specific problem in the other thread.

[phen]

hello y'all!

Please add all scientific/engineering programs you know/like to
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuScientists
we try to get a comprehensive list of available software! it is really helpful, but QCad wasn't there. I found the tip in this thread...

cheers,

kai

[bernardfrancois]

nice job!

[lyly]

For myself I use:
- LateX with emacs/auctex not very wisiwig but evince (document viewer of ubuntu) still crash a lot...
- gnuplot for data rendering. I used it in commande line but I have see plotdrop (not in repo) which seems to be a promising front-end. Unfortunatenly the last version doesnt have an ubuntu package.
- regexxer to manage the text result of experiment.
- octave can fit to replace mathlab, but I dont know any good front end to it, and command line is not very friendly for everydays work...
- wxmaxima a gnome front end to maxima for litteral calculation
- inkscape to make the schemas and figures
- dia for flowchart etc...
- I dont use it but statical calculation the R programm is good (I learned it during my studies)

I miss:
- a CAD program with 3D design and plan making of mechanical parts
- a PCB/Mask designer
- an small and easy 3D drawing program. Everybody say Blender is great, but I feel it is too complicated. I dont need any raytracing feature or big texture rendenring..., but sometime I like too have a little 3D fig just to explain something
- a video editing program. Kino is in ubuntu, but I cannot open my experiment film with it... and I am not sure the conversion to another format dont do any loss of data...
- a program to draw molecules

[jefferbean]

Octave works great, it is virtually the same as Matlab. Make sure to get the octave-forge package as well. It contains 500 additional functions not in the main distro. The one I found most useful was print(), which allows you to save your plots and graphs as variable graphics files including .png.

[htoerrin]

For video editing you might concider cinelerra, http://heroinewarrior.com/cinelerra.php3