Torsdag 19 april 2007 10:11 skrev Clayton:


> I know this is an oft asked question, but... well, I'm going to ask it
> again to see if anyone here has recently been playing with getting
> AutoCAD working in Wine etc.
>
> A friend of mine is asking me if he can use AutoCAD with Linux (wants
> to move to Linux at some point, and this is the last blocker).  I've
> done some digging and AutoCAD 2002 seems to be working reasonably well
> in Wine (or Crossover).  Beyond that version though, there is a
> noticeable lack of information.  Has anyone here had any success with
> newer versions of AutoCAD in Linux?
>
> We toyed with the idea of running a VMware instance, but that was
> discarded as overkill since the end user would simply be running Linux
> to run VMWare to run AutoCAD.  Not much point there.
>
> AutoCAD is a fixed requirement in this situation, and native Linux
> alternatives cannot be used.  Long story that is not worth repeating
> here... suffice to say, AutoCAD is a must.
>
> C.

Would this work for you?

- put AutoCAD onto a Win2003 terminal server.
- make a Linux desktop icon with "rdesktop -some-parameters... -s "C:\Program 
Files bla. bla.autocad.exe" IP-of-w2003-server"

That would give the user a perfect fine SuSE/Linux desktop with an AC icon.


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