Linux CAD Software

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1. Linux CAD
   LinuxCAD is today's leading computer aided design and drafting program for The Linux Operating System. LinuxCAD has grown in sales and functionality since its original introduction in 1998. LinuxCAD now represents a complete computer aided design program for Linux ... it is a complete replacement for AutoCAD. For any practical purpose, it implements all major features of AutoCAD in such a way that experienced AutoCAD users do not need additional training to start working with LinuxCAD. Linux users who are new to CAD will find our Users Manual an easy way to learn the CAD trade. There is so much similarity between LinuxCAD and AutoCAD, that while learning LinuxCAD, you will simultaneously learn AutoCAD. 
                         
2. CAD Software
   1.admesh Program for processing STL triangulated solid meshes . 2.alliance A complete set of CAD tools and libraries for VLSI design stk-serveur. 3. atlc A tool to calculate the impedance of transmission lines. 4. calculix A Three-Dimensional Structural Finite Element Program 
   5. cascade A simple tool to analyze noise and distortion of a RF system. 6. chipmunk An electronic CAD system . 7. chipvault A project organizer for VHDL and Verilog RTL hardware designs . 8. cider A mixed-level circuit and device simulator (includes SPICE3)
                       
3. The VariCAD
   VariCAD is a 3D/2D CAD software for mechanical engineering. It is compact, fast, easy to use, and provides everything one needs for mechanical design. High performance, powerful tools and ease of use make VariCAD a great investment. The CAD system is sold "fully loaded", including all features and functions, for one very affordable price. No other product of its kind can offer such a superb value.In addition to powerful tools for 3D modeling and 2D drafting and dimensioning, the CAD system provides libraries of standard mechanical parts (ANSI, DIN), calculations of standard mechanical components, and tools for working with bills of materials (BOM) and title blocks. The comprehensive CAD software enables designers to quickly create, evaluate, and modify their models.
                        
4. LinuxCAD 3D v2.0
   High Quality Professional CAD for Linux. LinuxCAD is the leading computer-aided design and drafting program for the Linux Operating System today. Since its original introduction in 1998 LinuxCAD has grown in sales and functionality. LinuxCAD supports DXF , DWG , DXS , SLD , SHX graphics formats. 
                   
5. CAD Management Systems
   A very simple interface for viewing almost any CAD format. Can be used in a Networked Environment. Lots of features, and registration is absolutely FREE. AutoVue is a visualization and collaboration Viewing and Markup software which can natively view over 200 different document formats including Pro/ENGINEER, AutoCAD, MicroStation, CADKEY, CATIA, Inventor, Mechanical Desktop, SolidWorks, SolidDesigner, Solid Edge & STEP. A JAVA thin-client version is available. A fully functional evaluation versions of all programs are available for download. 
                         
6. My CAD Software
   EDA: - An EDA application is used for drawing schematics, PC-boards and the like. This list is likely to be undergoing drastic changes in the next while as I revamp my EDA suite. Oregano: - Nice little Linux-based schematic capture and simulation package using spice. Kind of buggy, and has been discontinued in favor of GAEL. Which is sort-of a shame, because GAEL is still very early alpha. KLogic: - KLogic is a cute little Linux-based interactive schematic capture and digital simulation package. Handy, but I don't really use it anymore. TkGate: - TkGate is a much more powerful interactive circuit layout/simulation package. It does basically everything that KLogic does, plus it saves Verilog files and has a much more powerful simulator for complex digital designs. Eagle: - Powerful program for schematic capture and PC-board layout, for both Linux and Windows (I use both interchangably). This has been suggested to me a dozen times, right after I actually started using it. It's a nice program, but it's not exactly free. I'm currently investigating other options. 
                     
7. The GNU/Linux DVD Player Review
   Jon takes a look at Xine, VideoLAN Client, MPlayer and Ogle--four GNU/Linux DVD playback applications. 
   Playing DVDs under GNU/Linux has not had the happiest of histories, what with the DeCSS debacle and subsequent legal battle. So you'd be forgiven for thinking that you will never be able to play your DVDs on your GNU/Linux system. Luckily, this is not the case, and there are several applications available for you to download and use. The issue with DeCSS is still with us but is slowly getting clearer. However, this has left some of the DVD players officially not supporting encrypted DVDs, although unofficially, playback is possible via third-party additions.
                         
8. CAD/CAM Application
   Linux is available in several formats, called distributions. Each distribution has its own set of features and functionality that makes it unique -- some distributions are available for download at no charge, others are provided on CD or floppy disk and have a (usually) nominal charge associated with them. In each section below, you'll find not only a list of applications, tools, and utilities, but links to web sites providing support, reviews, and other useful information. 
                         
9. CAD for Linux
   CADforLINUX beta testing period is finished, we want to thanks all people have support us on this development. Next step will be merge new source code (from progeCAD 2006) into Linux project. From a long time, CAD users ask to have a powerful DWG tool on GNU/Linux. With this new product, ProgeSOFT offers a new important, standard application for Linux, the natural complement of other office applications. 
   CADforLINUX is a powerful and complete 2D/3D CAD environment, 100% compatible with DWG drawing format, developed in order to run on GNU/Linux distributions.
                         
10. Linux substitutes for "most wanted" Windows-only software
    DesktopLinux.com has reported recently on Novell Inc.'s survey of the "most wanted" Windows/MacOS-only applications among Linux users. As a result of over 14,000 votes and comments that have been registered since the beginning of January, some useful suggestions about good Linux substitutes have come to the fore. "All the feedback and participation has been great thus far. As the survey continues, I wanted to share some of the suggestions that people have made regarding the top-requested applications. They have been both impressive and helpful," CoolSolutions site editor Scott Morris said.
                            
11. Free and cheap CAD
    This page is devoted to free or cheap Computer Aided Design software.Many years ago now I worked as a mechanical engineer, using SDRC IDEAS (briefly), Pro-ENGINEER (quite a bit) and AutoCAD (a lot on version 10 in the distant past, and briefly on 12). Now I'm a publisher and just using (mostly 3D) CAD as a hobby. So I developed an interest in (legal) CAD software which is cheap, or, even better, free!When I wrote this page originally, I was looking for software to design bicycles and other human powered vehicles, but should be relevant for many other users too of course. If you are designing bicycles or HPVs on CAD, check out the IHPVA Parts Library and please do contribute anything relevant which you draw.
                        
12. Linux for CAD
    Linux has made big headway in business, but so far almost entirely as a back-room network file-server serving workstations that run Windows. The main problem is that everyone wants to run the ‘industry-standard’ application programs that require Windows. I decided to use an HP Pavilion 8509. This is a domestic-market PC that runs CAD very well. It has a Pentium-III 450MHz CPU and came with 64 Mb RAM, which I upgraded to 288Mb. It had an 8Gb drive set up as a single C drive and Windows 98SE. I wanted to use this PC to try out Linux while keeping Windows, as many people will want to do that. After much deliberation and asking friends about slide-in drive trays etc, I decided to install Linux on a second hard disk.
                           
13. Use of Unix CAD software
    CAD software is supported for use on the Shackleton building SUN SPARCstations running the Solaris 2 Unix operating system.The software also runs on the ECS department's CAD server, salvador, although not all students are permitted to log onto salvador directly. Some users may feel that the enforced uniformity of the CAD setup cramps their UNIX style. If you are one of these users, you can run CAD tools via the CAD environment called from any terminal window using: ~bim/script/CAD. In this case you will have to run the CAD environment any time that you want to use CAD tools. This method is NOT guaranteed to work since all CAD tools are tested with the standard setup and not with this special CAD environment. Note that you could incorporate commands from the ~bim/script/CAD script in your own startup files to avoid having to remember to type the command every time. In any event if you chose to brand yourself an expert user you will have to take more responsibilty for any problems you encounter. It is usual for problems to be dealt with only after they have been demonstrated on a standard CAD setup. 
                            
14. Linux Invades Hollywood
    Shrek was the first major motion picture created primarily using Linux. It won't be the last. Linux is rapidly becoming the professional animator's operating system (OS) of choice, not just at DreamWorks SKG, which produced Shrek, but at top production studios in Hollywood, the Bay Area, and London. An OS that started 10 years ago as a Finnish college student's personal hobby-not even a university research project-is invading film industry servers, renderfarms, and workstations.Film animators are now using Linux versions of Alias|Wavefront's Maya, No thing Real's Shake, Side Effects' Houdini, and Pixar's RenderMan-the leading commercial applications for animation, compositing, special effects, and rendering. 
                            
15. New Betas of CAD Software
    General CADD Pro v2.1.37 (and list of fixes) can be downloaded from here. The beta of General CADD Pro v3.0.12 is also available for testing and download. Check out the new user-customizable toolbars, spell checker, and the new GT and OT commands. A discussion forum is here.You can download the beta release of BricsCAD v5 for Linux from here. On the download page, you find a new trial license key for BricsCad V5 for Linux, valid until end of September 2004.BricsCad V5 improves performance, and contains more than 200 fixes -- including numerous fixes and improvements related to running on WINE.
                     
16. Another Reason for the Linux CAD
    There are many, many, reasons for translating information from one language to another, that go way beyond Docs and “Marketing”. I use them almost every day for many different reasons. But if your argument is that their English “Marketing” materials should be up to par, than, to be fair, I must though it back to you as well. In the original posting did it mention that this was a computer translation (for which it clearly is), nor any of your arguments about open source software, or anything about the lack of proper “English” documentation stated most recent post. It only seemed to say: Look how bad this English is, and this is why Linux CAD has not caught on...That is at least how I interpreted your original article and why I asked for clarification, thank you for your clarification.
                      
17. Compiling PUFF microwave CAD software on Linux
    The PUFF software is available for sale together with a book from the California Institute of Technology, and in Europe from UKW-Berichte. Although it is not free, it is quite cheap compared to other software; furthermore, in many cases it comes with with source code written in Turbo Pascal. (Note: since making this web page available, several people have told me that their copy of the floppy disk did not contain the source code. I do not know details, so for the moment I can only advise you explicitly ask for the source code before ordering.) The fact that PUFF comes with source code makes it possible to port it to other systems than the original MS-DOS. Using the Free Pascal compiler, most of the original Turbo Pascal code compiles without problems on Linux. 
                        
18. The SynDEx - System-Level CAD Software
    Distributed real-time embedded systems are of crucial importance in application domains such as avionics, automobiles, telecommunication and mobile robotics. Principally based on digital electronics, which includes software, this aspect of the various applications is rapidly growing. Because they must meet constraints on resource distribution and optimization, as well as time, the design of such systems is particularly complex. In order to assist the designers, scientists at INRIA are proposing a methodology called AAA (Algorithm Architecture Adequation) and its associated system-level CAD software called SynDEx. These cover the whole development cycle, from the specification of the application functions, to their implementation running in real time on a distributed architecture composed of processors and specific integrated circuits.
                          
19. MSC Software Core
    Understanding how a product will behave in the real world, requires a multidisciplinary approach. MSC Software is committed to providing you with an enterprise level solution to improve time-to-market, ensure right-to-market, and reduce overall product development cycle time. MSC Software’s suite of core products cover the full spectrum of engineering analysis from linear, nonlinear and explicit nonlinear to computational fluid dynamics, fluid system interaction, and more to help you overcome even the most challenging product development hurdles.MSC Software offers bundled solutions for solving complex problems, such as static and transient nonlinear analysis, implicit nonlinear analysis with contact for highly nonlinear deformation problems, and explicit nonlinear analysis for problems involving crush, crash, drops, and dynamic motion analysis.
                         
20. AutoCAD Version
    AutoCAD Version Explorer (AVE) is a quick way to check version information on AutoCAD files in an Explorer-like interface. AVE also has the ability to display the preview image from version 13, 14, 2000/2000i/2002 & 2004/2005/2006 files. Features:- 1. Display version (v2.5, 2.6, 9, 10, 11/12, 13, 14, 2000/2000i/2002, 2004/2005/2006) 2. Display preview images (v13, 14, 2000/2000i/2002 & 2004/2005/2006)
    3. Output selected files or entire directory to HTML format. 4. Create zip files from selected files or entire directory. 5. Display 3X view and various file management options by right-clicking a file. 
                                
21. About Linux
    Linux is a free UNIX like operating system created by Linus Torvalds with the help of developers all around the world. Linux is freely available for everybody thanks to it's GPL licence. You can lurn more about Linux by reading the FAQ, or a more complete introduction to Linux. The best way to install Linux if you have never used it before would be to buy a complete Linux distribution. It includes Linux itself, usefull software, some documentation and generally a 30 days support. You can get these usually for a cheap price (arround 30-40 ). You can buy Red Hat Linux 9.0, or SuSE Linux from Amazon, both are good distributions. Mandrake Linux PowerPack Edition 9.1 is also known to be one of the most simple Linux distributions to install and to use. 
                               
22. Production Description for CAD
    A Complete Set of CAD Tools from the Maker of AutoCAD SoftwareAutoSketch® software provides a complete set of CAD tools for creating professional-quality precision drawings. A series of tutorials get you up and running fast. A Microsoft® Windows® XPlike interface provides a familiar environment for straightforward drafting. Content libraries give you the simplicity of ready-made, drag-and-drop content. And DWG format compatibility means you can create and share industry-standard drawings from the get-go.
                              
23. Descriptions for CAD
    A CAD system is a combination of hardware and software that enables engineers and architects to design everything from furniture to airplanes. In addition to the software, CAD systems require a high-quality graphics monitor; a mouse, light pen, or digitizing tablet for drawing; and a special printer or plotter for printing design specifications. Until the mid 1980s, all CAD systems were specially constructed computers. Now, you can buy CAD software that runs on general-purpose workstations and personal computers. 
                         
24. About VUTRAX
    VUTRAX (pronounced View-Tracks) is the major professional Electronics schematic and PCB (Printed circuit board) design package in the UK. The product was the first EDA package offered for personal computers, having a pedigree back to 1981 when it was created for use by in-house draughtsmen. This modern product offers similar functionality to formal workstations but at a fraction of the cost. There are now thousands of systems in use worldwide designing boards used from the seabed to satellites.VUTRAX is available now for Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows ME, Windows NT 3.51, Windows NT 4.0, Windows 2000 and Windows XP. 
                                     
25. Virtual Reality Visualization of CAD Data
    CAD/CAM software plays an integral role in nuclear power plant design. However, CAD/CAM software leaves some major issues in the design process unaddressed. We seek to fill the gap through the use of a virtual reality representation of the plant. Through the use of virtual reality, we plan to investigate the integration of components during construction. Unforeseen problems during construction often require field changes that introduce delays. In addition, virtual reality can be used for the training of plant maintenance personnel. The model we are using for proof-of-concept is a CAD generated model of the AP600 plant. The original AUTOCAD dxf file was passed through a filter to produce a data file compatible with our VR software. We have also developed a methodology for producing virtual models from PRO/E.