#BRL CAD ARCHITECTURE INSTALL#

I installed Ubuntu 6.10 on a spare box with the specific intent of testing qcad & VariCAD to see if I can migrate to linux on my production box. I am a gnomester myself, but am also tied to AutoCAD, Inventor and XP in the office. The program will run as long as it can find the KDE libraries. You are right that you will be able to log into KDE from the login screen but you don't really need to do this.

#BRL CAD ARCHITECTURE INSTALL#

You can just install the KDE desktop from Synaptic and then you will have all the libraries necessary to run KDE apps. Then you can either dual boot or use coLinux to use Linux, depending on whether you'd prefer to be booting back and forth on a daily basis or just deal with the confusion of having 2 whole systems running at the same time and communicating with ssh and/or samba.

The only option I've found to really work is to keep a Windows installation around. And VMWare doesn't have 3D acceleration, so even though you can run Windows in Linux just for CAD it doesn't work very well at all. especially if you wanted to make assemblies that others would be able to view. Most Windows CAD apps don't work in Wine/Cedega, and even if they did I would think that managing links would be odd with Unixy directory structure. And if you have a ton of money to throw around, Pro/E and CATIA supposedly work in Linux, but I've not had a chance to try myself. Your choice is almost always dictated by the file type you have to work with.Īnyhow, it is possible (but not practical) to make models in Blender and 2D drawings in QCAD.

It's not like any 3D design software will do. That's why CAD is the ultimate in user lock in, because there is no standard format. step files, which loses all the construction history and assembly constraints. The best you could hope for would be to convert everything to. The really sad part of this is that even if there was a great open source 3D CAD package, it still wouldn't be compatible with the formats that the mainstream apps use.

Brl cad architecture