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On Thursday 19 April 2007 03:11, Clayton wrote:
> I know this is an oft asked question, but... well, I'm going to ask it
> again to see if anyone here has recently been playing with getting
> AutoCAD working in Wine 
Some guy did a few years did in South Africa.
>
> A friend of mine is asking me if he can use AutoCAD with Linux (wants
> to move to Linux at some point, and this is the last blocker).  I've
> done some digging and AutoCAD 2002 seems to be working reasonably well
> in Wine (or Crossover).  Beyond that version though, there is a
> noticeable lack of information.  Has anyone here had any success with
> newer versions of AutoCAD in Linux?

Safe to assume that the latest versions not play nice.
>
> We toyed with the idea of running a VMware instance, but that was
> discarded as overkill since the end user would simply be running Linux
> to run VMWare to run AutoCAD.  Not much point there.
>
> AutoCAD is a fixed requirement in this situation, and native Linux
> alternatives cannot be used.  Long story that is not worth repeating
> here... suffice to say, AutoCAD is a must.

Not much in CAD but you may want to take a look at 
http://www.brlcad.org/
>
> C.
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