On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 4:55 PM, Phong Nguyen <[email protected]> wrote: >>> Hi Chris, >>> >>> What CAD software are you running on Linux. Targeting >>> business that run that CAD may prove fruitful! >>> >>> Many thanks, >>> -T >> >> I never tried any, although I heard good things about pro/engineer - >> http://www.ptc.com/products/creo-elements-pro/ which runs natively on linux. >> > The big CAD vendors have given up on Linux (including Pro/E). There are some > open-source tools like BRL-CAD but I'm not aware of any really extensive use > of them. > > - Phong
Oh? I found that for circuit design and schematic capture, the problem wasn't lack of tools: it was poverty of device models already *in* the tools for Linux. I probably contributed.... 200 component specifications to various CAD devices, just so they'd be in the basic libraries and I wouldn't have to redo them with the next release. And admittedly, the Windows ones had better libraries. But the Linux and UNIX ones were more stable, easier to erase stupidities like single points with wires connected to themselves only, and other foollishness.
