I'll have to try CollabCAD - thanks for the infovtpup wrote:...
Here are some CADs I've experimented with in Linux that worked fairly well:
The old TurboCAD 2d Learning edition, run in Wine -- this is available free elsewhere on the Internet -- do a search on TurboCAD Learning Editiion or LE.
This program is very full featured. Its main drawback is that it is old and can't read some of the newer .DXF formats.
And for the only really viable 3D CAD in Linux -- available free, though not free-source -- is CollabCAD from the India Ministry of Informatics -- again do a search on the Internet to find it.
I've run that in Knoppix, Kanotix and Ubuntu. I'd make a .pet of it here, but you can't freely redistribute it -- you have to get it from them.
I've periodically tried to run DesignCAD 3D Max and TurboCAD 3D in successive versions of Wine, but no go. Maybe some day.......
Thanks again Aitch for your input -- maybe the above will help another CAD seeker.
BTW guys, don't forget about Medusa and Varicad as "true" Linux solutions. Neither totally free (well Medusa4free is, subject to 6 monthly renewal of free licence and limitations on print size), but they come closest to what I am after
Chris