As a followup to the discussion last week, I have since learned read that it is possible to run AutoCad under Win4Lin. Gory details here: https://www.netraverse.com:9100/lists/win4lin-users/List.html and run a search for Autocad. Disclaimers: Win4Lin isn't free ($90). I've never used it, nor do I know anyone that has. It only works on Win 9x. Linux support is for 2.4 kernels -- RedHat is supported, but nothing about Fedora. -- cmg