[cad-linux] Intellicad for Linux

Lots of cad options is a good thing, just like having more than one option 
for operating systems is a good thing.  One of the reasons I really like 
Intellicad, it may tend to keep Acad slightly more in line, but at the very 
least it provides many of us a viable cad option.

In my own opinion I don't think that Intellicad an be ported to Linux due to 
its tight embedding into windows.  However splitting the cad engine out and 
then writing different front ends does have possibilities.  It would be a LOT 
of work. I really do hope they can pull it off, but I am afraid that it will 
be for commercial purposes and therefore will not be open source.  I haven't 
been hanging around Linux sites a great deal, but I gather that a commercial 
program would not be warmly received.  Is this a correct assumption?  Oddly 
enough the one entitiy that I see which has enough juice to port a cad 
program to Linux is AutoDesk.  

By the way, I did not mean to imply that you or anyone else would suggest 
that my program effort was a waste of time.  From a practical point of view 
however, who would want to write a word processor program with Star Office 
freely available.  Speaking of Star Office, I had discussions a while back 
with Risto where we noted that the only module Star office lacked was a good 
3D graphics program built in.  It tied in nicely with the theme of the 
article you linked to last week.

Andy

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