For information running Autocad under wine:

• See Wine AppDB Entry Autocad

(These notes below should be in the Wine AppDB, but are not all yet. )

Running Autocad on Wine

Autocad was the number two most requested application in Novell's LinuxApplicatonRequestSurvey.

Wine is known to run older versions of Autocad (R14, 2000, 2002) but versions 2004 and later are not known to work.

Known Issues

Autocad bugs in Wine's bugzilla:

• search bugs.winehq.org for bugs that mention "autocad"

Links

Downloadable trials:

• Autocad 2008: http://www.brothersoft.com/d.php?soft_id=251833&url=http%3A%2F%2Flfiles3.brothersoft.com%2Fgraphics_design%2Fcad%2FAutoCAD2008Trial.exe (but check len 843377768 sha1sum 89e30300dc069a673c489254a78143f5e74a7dac)

• Autocad 2009: http://www.autodesk.com/autocad-trial

Older trial versions are available on CD-ROMs included with books, e.g.:

• Autocad 2000: Special Edition Using Autocad 2000 (http://www.amazon.com/Special-Using-AutoCAD-2000/dp/078972149X/)

• Autocad 2002: Autocad 2002 Bible (http://www.amazon.com/AutoCAD-Bible-CD-ROM-Ellen-Finkelstein/dp/0764536117/)

• Autocad 2004: Autocad 2004 Bible (http://www.amazon.com/AutoCAD-2004-Bible-Ellen-Finkelstein/dp/0764539922)

• Autocad 2006: Autocad 2006 Bible (http://www.amazon.com/AutoCAD-2006-LT-Bible/dp/0764596756/)

Pages with tips/success stories on running Autocad on Wine:

• R14: http://www.kernel-traffic.org/wine/wn20020710_128.html#5

• R14: http://architectafrica.com/bin0/news200411111_wine.html

• R14: http://appdb.winehq.org/appview.php?iVersionId=103&iTestingId=8843

• 2000: http://alxarch.wordpress.com/2008/04/20/autocad-2000-in-wine-howto/

• 2000: http://www.flatmtn.com/computer/Linux-lt2k.html

• 2000: http://jnoter.blogspot.com/2007/05/come-installare-autocad-su-gnu-linux.html

• 2002: http://appdb.winehq.org/appview.php?iVersionId=1924

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