On Monday 01 November 2004 02:12 pm, Jim Hall wrote: > Duncan Lithgow said in another thread that "I will never get rid of > windoze totally because I need to run AutoCAD sometimes." > > I hate to see anyone suffer needlessly. Buy either Crossover or > LinuxCAD. Crossover is the longer term solution for any other Windoze > programs you may be forced to use in the future. It's based on the > Wine project < http://winehq.org/ >. LinuxCAD is a direct > replacement for AutoCAD: if you know one, you know the other.
Have you tried LinuxCAD? It seems a few years back it was just a scam, has that changed ? > > Yes, I know both these products are commercial. That sets some > people's teeth on edge. But, for some programs, this is the only way > to get them into the hands of users. Development and support just > costs too much for some kinds of projects. Also, from what I've seen, > Linux commercial software usually costs no more than comparable > Windoze products, and often less. This CAD program is MUCH less than > AutoCAD! Wine won't run AutoCad in a production environment. Varicad is a decent CAD program for Linux but it is for mechanical. If you need to run a decent cad program use a dual G5 with the cad app available for it, can't remember the name, but it blows autocad/windows away. -- Greg C. Madden -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
