> hi everyone! > > it seems great to get cad applications work fine > with wine or similar, > but to me it does make not sense in the long run... > it could be useful for time to time jobs, but how > can you think to use > this seriously in your everyday work? in one article on the Wine project, one of the developers said something to the effect that their long term goal was to make them selves unnecessary. the purpose of wine is to establish a migration path whether the software vender wants to support Linux or not. i've contacted numerious cad venders about wine, some are excited, some are resentful that i would even consider running their software on a non-MS platform. > > and then, is it possible that no one can write a > really good cad application running on linux? or a > good port? as with all branches of the opensource world, a community needs to be established and organized before any seroious projects emerge. until recently all effort involving linux in the cad world were fragmented and unorganized. at one time there were a group of cad venders(varimetrix, cocreate, bently) who tried but ran into an unorganized user base. later as more users became interested those venders became uninterested. things are finally starting to come together. the linux port of pro/e is a good sign of that. BTW, has anyone tried it? > i heard of a linux port of archicad, but only in > japanese (at the moment and cannot find the URL...) > http://www.arc-s.co.jp/product/soft/acad/linux-jp.html > if our future destinated to be painful? ;-)) i've been fighting this battle for a while and trust me things are improving. there was a time when it was very painful. now it's just a matter of speaking up. ===== phrostie Oh I have slipped the surly bonds of DOS and danced the skies on Linux silvered wings. http://pfrostie.freeservers.com/cad-tastrafy/ //www.freelists.org/webpage/cad-linux __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Autos - Get free new car price quotes http://autos.yahoo.com