Looking for a CAD viewer

gulo · 06-03-2004, 02:19 PM

something like Voloview (something that will read Autocad files) if you’re familiar with that product. I need it to run on a machine I have set up with Fedora Core 2 here at work.

Thanks in advance for any help.

superbondbond · 06-03-2004, 02:25 PM

Haven't seen anything myself. There are some light weight CAD apps for Linux that will read DXFs, but I don't have any first-hand experience to say how well.

Have you tried running VoloView under wine?

raulsf · 06-03-2004, 04:03 PM

I installed wine05052004 and autocad2000 and so I can view and edit all my *.dwg files. I think that voloview can be installed too.

The_Nerd · 06-03-2004, 06:21 PM

Blender3D

www.blender3d.org

If it doesn't load your file type by defualt, try finding some plugins!

mtb · 06-04-2004, 03:36 AM

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Originally posted by gulo
something like Voloview (something that will read Autocad files) if you’re familiar with that product. I need it to run on a machine I have set up with Fedora Core 2 here at work.

Thanks in advance for any help.

Qcad supports them:

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Main Features

- Various modes for creating lines, arcs, circles, ellipses, parallels, angle bisectors, ...

- DXF Format (DXF 2004)

- Texts in many different CAD fonts

- Dimensioning of distances, angles, diameters, tolerances, ...

- Hatches and solid fills

- Full support of Layers and Blocks (Inserts)

- Powerful selection and modification tools (move, rotate, mirror, trim, stretch, ...)

- Snapping to objects (endpoints, centers, intersections, ...)

- Console for co-ordinate positioning and launching commands

- Multiple undo / redo levels

- Support for various units including metric, imperial, degrees, grad, rad, ...

- Import and Export of Bitmaps (JPEG, PNG, ...)

- Creation of PS files which can be easily converted to PDF

- Translations of the user interface: English, Hungarian, French, Italian, German, Greek, Czech, Russian, Dutch, Slovak

- ...

For a complete list of features and planned features, please click here or take a look at the User Reference Manual of QCad.

tamanco · 07-01-2004, 09:17 AM

Olá Raul,

This is the first time I read that someone succesfully installed Autodesk Autocad 2000 on a linux machine using wine. (Parabéns!)

Currently I am using W2k for CAD jobs but I'm eagor to switch to linux. Would like to know whether wine needs be configured in some special way or does it nicely adapt Autocad right out of the box?
Also would like to know whether you achieved good production performance and full functionallity?
And how about Autocad 2002, 2004 and 2005 versions.

Think it might even be interesting to run some benchmarks and write a short web article about Autocad on linux.

Abraços,
Robert Visser

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Originally posted by raulsf
I installed wine05052004 and autocad2000 and so I can view and edit all my *.dwg files. I think that voloview can be installed too.

raulsf · 07-02-2004, 12:23 PM

For a while I had also troubles to install Autocad 2000. It stalled at 10%, 33%, 66%, 99%.
But at current version of wine I could install it 100%.
First I have to copy the windows fonts directory to the fake windows install.
Then I had to add the follow to the PATH in config file in ~./wine:
c:\\Program Files\\Common Files\\Autodesk Shared
Now you can run Autocad.
There are some tips that I didn't use, like to edit SYSTEM.REG and delete all lines in the file with LOADCTRLS=....
I still have some fonts visualization problems and I can't print yet.

[]s
Raul