AutoCAD Alternatives -- revisited -- vendor supported IntelliCAD for Linux

[Carroll Grigsby]

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