On Friday 16 July 2004 07:25 pm, Jude wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Friday 16 July 2004 02:37, Carroll Grigsby wrote: > > 1. AutoCad got married to Windows some time in the mid 90's, abandoning > > it's ties to pure MS-DOS and Unix versions. Wine? No. AFAIK, no one > > successfully run AutoCad using Wine, although there have been reports of > > successes with AutoCad Lite. > > This is not strictly true; there is another option. > > I run AutoCAD R14 (the last version before the IMHO misguided lock-in to > windows) quite happily under Crossover Office with no windows partition. I > use it for mostly 2D/3D mechanical work, and have been for a couple of > years. It works flawlessly, including happily running the many AutoLISP > programs I've written over the years. It is also noted as working with Wine > on their apps database. I guess I missed that one, possibly because I was running AutoCAD 2000 in those days. I never used R14; we went from R13 (both DOS and Win) to 2000. > If the features you require are only available in the latest versions then > this will not help, but R14 is a mature and very complete app, and more > than capable of doing everything I need. Might be worth looking into for > you. Also bear in mind you may have file compatibility hassles with later > versions. This is not an issue for me as I do not have to deal with > incoming files from later versions. Still, it's a possibilty. When I first retired, I thought that it might be fun to keep my hand in. Then I remembered why I retired. End of project. Thanks for your comments -- next time I'll do a some more searching (or be less dogmatic in what I post). -- cmg
