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?

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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.

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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,