auto-cad
 

I ve been trying to install autocad with wine , the install fails any tips on how to troulbe shoot wine?
Can or is there a way for qcad to view and edit autocad files as in .dwg?

Wine : Doesn't work with Autocad , AFAIK.

Qcad understands "Drawing Exchange DXF 2000 (*.dxf)".
If you can save files as dxf in Autocad, you can edit
the file in Qcad and hope, it is mostly compatible
with Autocad. ( Not everything will work.)

Well, you might want to take a look at this:

http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManage...ication&iId=86

for it looks like some folks have got Autocad working pretty OK with some versions (release 20 got a Gold).

You can install Autocad with wine (i've instaleed autocad 2008), but it's not going to work that great. I will tell you how but the best thing I guess if you use autocad dailly it's to have windows installed too on your computer. Well here it goes:
-you need to have installed in your linux system two programs: wine and playonlinux (just do a google search, and you will find playonlinux easily with very good documentation for how you can install it on any kind of linux distro)
-after you've installed both wine and playonlinux, just open playonlinux and click install. There you will find a list of software, games and programs, that can be installed with playonlinux, wich is a program that uses wine. (you can find autocad at development section)
-follow the steps of the installation and there you go, you will have autocad installed on your linux distro in no time.
-yeah after you have installed autocad, click install again in playonlinux menu, and add some windows fonts too for autocad.

Autocad 2008 works acceptable on linux, but crashes a lot, and some features actually doesn't work at all. It's only up to you. Personally I've gived up using Autocad on linux, install it yourself and you will see why.

thanks tux
i cant say you didnt warn me i wasted at least a week tried lots of versions of autocad none of them really worked to the point i could do anything , just get going and crash lost work.
how does a linux user open and edit a .dwg file. example drawing

Depending on your system specifications, you may want to try running Autocad in a virtual machine. Install virtualbox to your Linux system, then install Windows in virtualbox. The last step is to install Autocad to your virtual Windows installation. Autocad may run a bit slower than you would expect because it is running in a VM, but it should not crash, you still have access to your Linux system, and you have access to any Windows applications you still need.

I do something similar here because I attend school online, and the coursecompass WEB site software requires Windows.

HTH,