On Mon, 30 Aug 2010 16:24:47 -0700 Randolph Bentson <[email protected]> wrote:
> Does anyone have experience with Solid Edge on Linux, or has anyone > have recommendations for other solids modeling packages? Randolph, I am not aware that SolidEdge is available for Linux. You might be able to get it running under Wine, but I do not recommend it. Historically, mechanical CAD is just about the most abusive thing you can do to your computer. Today, 3D parametric CAD packages like SolidEdge, ProE, Inventor and SolidWorks are the reason this continues to be true. You want to run them in their native OS. UG/NX either has or had a distribution for 64 bit Linux. You could look into it. There is no Free Software 3D CAD for Linux. These are commercial packages that start at around $5K US. VariCAD does 3D, but it is not parametric. You might look into that. -- Howard Gibson [email protected] [email protected] http://home.eol.ca/~hgibson
