AutoCAD Alternatives -- revisited -- vendor supported IntelliCAD for Linux
Carroll Grigsby
cgrigs at earthlink.net
Sun Jul 25 03:26:14 UTC 2004
On Saturday 24 July 2004 06:23 pm, Bryan J. Smith wrote:
> We had a "meta-discussion" on this over at NTLUG (North Texas LUG)
> awhile back. I talked about BrisCAD's _official_ support for running
> IntelliCAD under WINE:
> http://ntlug.org/pipermail/discuss/Week-of-Mon-20040628/021557.html
>
> For more on other, _real_world_ engineering going on under Linux, and
> the AutoDesk-Microsoft "cohorts" behind how AutoCAD was _removed_ from
> _every_ platform from Windows, read:
> http://ntlug.org/pipermail/discuss/Week-of-Mon-20040628/021553.html
>
> -- Bryan
>
> <rant=on>
>>> pretty good rant whacked
> </rant>
Bryan:
Thanks for your comments and the links. It's always struck me that
conversations about CAD -- particularly in computer-oriented contexts -- are
much like the fable about the blind man and the elephant: It all depends on
what part of the beast that you know -- or think that you know. Trust me, I'm
no AutoCAD fan -- but my short answer to the OP's query about a Linux
equivalent to AutoCAD is, "Probably not, but there may be kludges. What does
the part of the elephant that you're holding feel like?"
I suggest that we take any further discussion off-list. It might be fun, and I
need a little excitement around here.
-- cmg
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