On 2002-07-03 10:59 Duane Clark wrote:
Vincent Béron wrote:
Le mer 03/07/2002 à 11:39, Andreas Mohr a écrit :
On Wed, Jul 03, 2002 at 01:33:46AM +0300, P. Christeas wrote:
My view is that we should focus on professional apps, such as CAD, some multimedia etc. There is professionals that won't switch to Linux until some unique apps they use can run under Linux. Games are an issue, too.
Very true. IMHO AutoCAD is *very* important, as it's considered to be a leading CAD package, with no UNIX version, ever.
Was a leading CAD package. It's still vastly used, but (in my experience) mostly to get access to old drawings. Newer stuff gets designed on SolidWorks, ProE, Catia, Mechanical Desktop and a couple others which do real 3D.
Just barely on topic, hope people don't mind...
So, any hints on which would be a good one to get? I am planning to buy a mechanical CAD package, and would then attempt to fix any bugs to get it running under wine. I have managed to do fairly well getting my Xilinx FPGA software working (though getting the patches committed has been a little harder), so I figure I would try a CAD package, too.
My needs are pretty simple, so I don't really want the high dollar stuff, perhaps under $1K (the further under the better ;)? I would be doing things like mechanical drawings for machining front panels and brackets for electronic equipment (which I have done in Autocad in the past).
Try QCad. At $0, it is hard to beat. http://www.qcad.org