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I need a good CAD program for mechanical engineering.

Are there any good 3D CAD programs available for Ubuntu like Autocad?










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      I need a good CAD program for mechanical engineering.

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      Are there any good 3D CAD programs available for Ubuntu like Autocad?







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          For 3D use Blender. I think it is the only real alternative. BUT you will have to do a lot of work, because it is focused on animation. Blender is extremely wide, you will have to find what you need, what is not always easy for beginners. For example, there are plugin tools to improve exact 3D modelling, you might customize views etc.



          For 2D use DraftSight (not free software). It is a clon of AutoCAD, which means that you don't have to get familiar with new commands, workflow etc. For individuals it is free, Information about your behavior will be send regularly to DraftSight. Go to their Homepage and get the actual .deb file. DraftSight's disadvantage is, that there is no 3D.






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          • A free and open source alternative to DraftSight is LibreCAD.

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          FreeCAD



          If you haven't tried FreeCAD, you're missing out. It's a fully parametric 3-D modelling package that can be extended with Python. The interface is reasonably user-friendly, and feels like a "younger" version of Solidworks.



          Installation: Just install freecad package , or newer version using PPA. Also you have an AppImage.






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            OpenSCAD




            OpenSCAD is a software for creating solid 3D CAD models. It is free
            software and available for Linux/UNIX, Windows and Mac OS X. Unlike
            most free software for creating 3D models (such as Blender) it does
            not focus on the artistic aspects of 3D modelling but instead on the
            CAD aspects. Thus it might be the application you are looking for when
            you are planning to create 3D models of machine parts but pretty sure
            is not what you are looking for when you are more interested in
            creating computer-animated movies.




            To install OpenSCAD, just press Ctrl+Alt+T on your keyboard to open Terminal. When it opens, run the command(s) below:



            sudo add-apt-repository ppa:openscad/releases
            sudo apt update
            sudo apt install openscad


            For more CAD apps see 8 Best CAD Apps for Linux






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              Ubuntu 14.04 just sudo apt-get install openscad

              – Ivan Black
              Nov 9 '14 at 9:23











            • It looks really promising, since I am a programmer and it is for programmers. But wow it has some strange bugs! All the text is unreadable due to what looks like unicode bugs

              – Lennart Rolland
              Jan 28 '17 at 2:16



















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            BRL-CAD



            Maybe BRL-CAD would suit:




            BRL-CAD is a powerful cross-platform Open Source combinatorial Constructive Solid Geometry (CSG) solid modeling system that includes interactive 3D solid geometry editing, high-performance ray-tracing support for rendering and geometric analysis, network-distributed framebuffer support, image and signal-processing tools, path-tracing and photon mapping support for realistic image synthesis, a system performance analysis benchmark suite, an embedded scripting interface, and libraries for robust high-performance geometric representation and analysis.







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              There is no free 3D solid modelling CAD software worth using.



              FreeCAD is the only one coming close, but "close" in a relative sense... It does not do fillets well, boolean operators do not work, you can't even create sketch planes!



              So unless you want trivially simple, blocky models for free then you are out of luck.






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                While FreeCAD suffers from having very few developers, bugs (many due to the third-party geometric modeling kernel) and lack of features, it can create sketches in an plane you need, and it can do a lot more than "trivially simple, blocky models". One just has to visit the official forum's "Users showcase" to confirm this.

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              Sometimes you have to pay for real software. Varicad is a very good linux compatible system and the price is very decent indeed. I have tested it against Solidworks and it performs just fine. It does not have built in FEA but there are many such programs for Linux. Try the free trial and see.






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                Try Nanocad with the Wine emulator. Nanocad is the most similar software to Autocad I have found; I haven't tried it with Ubuntu but you can take a look at Wine's page for more information on how to run the Windows version on Linux.






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                  You must be looking for something like MEDUSA Mechanical CAD: http://www.cad-schroer.com/products.html. I don't know how good it is, never used it, but it's the only specialized CAD i found in linux.






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                    use SIEMENS PLM NX. Although its not free and there is no ubuntu inbuilt support but u can use it via adding some libraries and applying some modifications to your os as it is supported in redhat and suse linux






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                      Could you please expand on "adding some libraries and applying some modifications"? Otherwise this answer looks like a low-quality post.

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                    EQUINOX-3D has advanced freeform and numeric CAD, photorealistic / physically based rendering, animation, and tons of other features.

                    We use it heavily and exclusively for advanced CAD modeling / 3D printing very complex, organic shapes, like robot parts.
                    Here's the list of the latest features, movies, etc.



                    All images and movies on the Web site were a 100% created with EQUINOX-3D






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                      For 3D use Blender. I think it is the only real alternative. BUT you will have to do a lot of work, because it is focused on animation. Blender is extremely wide, you will have to find what you need, what is not always easy for beginners. For example, there are plugin tools to improve exact 3D modelling, you might customize views etc.



                      For 2D use DraftSight (not free software). It is a clon of AutoCAD, which means that you don't have to get familiar with new commands, workflow etc. For individuals it is free, Information about your behavior will be send regularly to DraftSight. Go to their Homepage and get the actual .deb file. DraftSight's disadvantage is, that there is no 3D.






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                      • A free and open source alternative to DraftSight is LibreCAD.

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                      For 3D use Blender. I think it is the only real alternative. BUT you will have to do a lot of work, because it is focused on animation. Blender is extremely wide, you will have to find what you need, what is not always easy for beginners. For example, there are plugin tools to improve exact 3D modelling, you might customize views etc.



                      For 2D use DraftSight (not free software). It is a clon of AutoCAD, which means that you don't have to get familiar with new commands, workflow etc. For individuals it is free, Information about your behavior will be send regularly to DraftSight. Go to their Homepage and get the actual .deb file. DraftSight's disadvantage is, that there is no 3D.






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                      • A free and open source alternative to DraftSight is LibreCAD.

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                      For 3D use Blender. I think it is the only real alternative. BUT you will have to do a lot of work, because it is focused on animation. Blender is extremely wide, you will have to find what you need, what is not always easy for beginners. For example, there are plugin tools to improve exact 3D modelling, you might customize views etc.



                      For 2D use DraftSight (not free software). It is a clon of AutoCAD, which means that you don't have to get familiar with new commands, workflow etc. For individuals it is free, Information about your behavior will be send regularly to DraftSight. Go to their Homepage and get the actual .deb file. DraftSight's disadvantage is, that there is no 3D.






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                      For 3D use Blender. I think it is the only real alternative. BUT you will have to do a lot of work, because it is focused on animation. Blender is extremely wide, you will have to find what you need, what is not always easy for beginners. For example, there are plugin tools to improve exact 3D modelling, you might customize views etc.



                      For 2D use DraftSight (not free software). It is a clon of AutoCAD, which means that you don't have to get familiar with new commands, workflow etc. For individuals it is free, Information about your behavior will be send regularly to DraftSight. Go to their Homepage and get the actual .deb file. DraftSight's disadvantage is, that there is no 3D.







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                      • A free and open source alternative to DraftSight is LibreCAD.

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                      • A free and open source alternative to DraftSight is LibreCAD.

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                      A free and open source alternative to DraftSight is LibreCAD.

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                      A free and open source alternative to DraftSight is LibreCAD.

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                      FreeCAD



                      If you haven't tried FreeCAD, you're missing out. It's a fully parametric 3-D modelling package that can be extended with Python. The interface is reasonably user-friendly, and feels like a "younger" version of Solidworks.



                      Installation: Just install freecad package , or newer version using PPA. Also you have an AppImage.






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                        FreeCAD



                        If you haven't tried FreeCAD, you're missing out. It's a fully parametric 3-D modelling package that can be extended with Python. The interface is reasonably user-friendly, and feels like a "younger" version of Solidworks.



                        Installation: Just install freecad package , or newer version using PPA. Also you have an AppImage.






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                          FreeCAD



                          If you haven't tried FreeCAD, you're missing out. It's a fully parametric 3-D modelling package that can be extended with Python. The interface is reasonably user-friendly, and feels like a "younger" version of Solidworks.



                          Installation: Just install freecad package , or newer version using PPA. Also you have an AppImage.






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                          FreeCAD



                          If you haven't tried FreeCAD, you're missing out. It's a fully parametric 3-D modelling package that can be extended with Python. The interface is reasonably user-friendly, and feels like a "younger" version of Solidworks.



                          Installation: Just install freecad package , or newer version using PPA. Also you have an AppImage.







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                              OpenSCAD




                              OpenSCAD is a software for creating solid 3D CAD models. It is free
                              software and available for Linux/UNIX, Windows and Mac OS X. Unlike
                              most free software for creating 3D models (such as Blender) it does
                              not focus on the artistic aspects of 3D modelling but instead on the
                              CAD aspects. Thus it might be the application you are looking for when
                              you are planning to create 3D models of machine parts but pretty sure
                              is not what you are looking for when you are more interested in
                              creating computer-animated movies.




                              To install OpenSCAD, just press Ctrl+Alt+T on your keyboard to open Terminal. When it opens, run the command(s) below:



                              sudo add-apt-repository ppa:openscad/releases
                              sudo apt update
                              sudo apt install openscad


                              For more CAD apps see 8 Best CAD Apps for Linux






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                                Ubuntu 14.04 just sudo apt-get install openscad

                                – Ivan Black
                                Nov 9 '14 at 9:23











                              • It looks really promising, since I am a programmer and it is for programmers. But wow it has some strange bugs! All the text is unreadable due to what looks like unicode bugs

                                – Lennart Rolland
                                Jan 28 '17 at 2:16
















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                              OpenSCAD




                              OpenSCAD is a software for creating solid 3D CAD models. It is free
                              software and available for Linux/UNIX, Windows and Mac OS X. Unlike
                              most free software for creating 3D models (such as Blender) it does
                              not focus on the artistic aspects of 3D modelling but instead on the
                              CAD aspects. Thus it might be the application you are looking for when
                              you are planning to create 3D models of machine parts but pretty sure
                              is not what you are looking for when you are more interested in
                              creating computer-animated movies.




                              To install OpenSCAD, just press Ctrl+Alt+T on your keyboard to open Terminal. When it opens, run the command(s) below:



                              sudo add-apt-repository ppa:openscad/releases
                              sudo apt update
                              sudo apt install openscad


                              For more CAD apps see 8 Best CAD Apps for Linux






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                                Ubuntu 14.04 just sudo apt-get install openscad

                                – Ivan Black
                                Nov 9 '14 at 9:23











                              • It looks really promising, since I am a programmer and it is for programmers. But wow it has some strange bugs! All the text is unreadable due to what looks like unicode bugs

                                – Lennart Rolland
                                Jan 28 '17 at 2:16














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                              OpenSCAD




                              OpenSCAD is a software for creating solid 3D CAD models. It is free
                              software and available for Linux/UNIX, Windows and Mac OS X. Unlike
                              most free software for creating 3D models (such as Blender) it does
                              not focus on the artistic aspects of 3D modelling but instead on the
                              CAD aspects. Thus it might be the application you are looking for when
                              you are planning to create 3D models of machine parts but pretty sure
                              is not what you are looking for when you are more interested in
                              creating computer-animated movies.




                              To install OpenSCAD, just press Ctrl+Alt+T on your keyboard to open Terminal. When it opens, run the command(s) below:



                              sudo add-apt-repository ppa:openscad/releases
                              sudo apt update
                              sudo apt install openscad


                              For more CAD apps see 8 Best CAD Apps for Linux






                              share|improve this answer















                              OpenSCAD




                              OpenSCAD is a software for creating solid 3D CAD models. It is free
                              software and available for Linux/UNIX, Windows and Mac OS X. Unlike
                              most free software for creating 3D models (such as Blender) it does
                              not focus on the artistic aspects of 3D modelling but instead on the
                              CAD aspects. Thus it might be the application you are looking for when
                              you are planning to create 3D models of machine parts but pretty sure
                              is not what you are looking for when you are more interested in
                              creating computer-animated movies.




                              To install OpenSCAD, just press Ctrl+Alt+T on your keyboard to open Terminal. When it opens, run the command(s) below:



                              sudo add-apt-repository ppa:openscad/releases
                              sudo apt update
                              sudo apt install openscad


                              For more CAD apps see 8 Best CAD Apps for Linux







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                                Ubuntu 14.04 just sudo apt-get install openscad

                                – Ivan Black
                                Nov 9 '14 at 9:23











                              • It looks really promising, since I am a programmer and it is for programmers. But wow it has some strange bugs! All the text is unreadable due to what looks like unicode bugs

                                – Lennart Rolland
                                Jan 28 '17 at 2:16














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                                Ubuntu 14.04 just sudo apt-get install openscad

                                – Ivan Black
                                Nov 9 '14 at 9:23











                              • It looks really promising, since I am a programmer and it is for programmers. But wow it has some strange bugs! All the text is unreadable due to what looks like unicode bugs

                                – Lennart Rolland
                                Jan 28 '17 at 2:16








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                              Ubuntu 14.04 just sudo apt-get install openscad

                              – Ivan Black
                              Nov 9 '14 at 9:23





                              Ubuntu 14.04 just sudo apt-get install openscad

                              – Ivan Black
                              Nov 9 '14 at 9:23













                              It looks really promising, since I am a programmer and it is for programmers. But wow it has some strange bugs! All the text is unreadable due to what looks like unicode bugs

                              – Lennart Rolland
                              Jan 28 '17 at 2:16





                              It looks really promising, since I am a programmer and it is for programmers. But wow it has some strange bugs! All the text is unreadable due to what looks like unicode bugs

                              – Lennart Rolland
                              Jan 28 '17 at 2:16











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                              BRL-CAD



                              Maybe BRL-CAD would suit:




                              BRL-CAD is a powerful cross-platform Open Source combinatorial Constructive Solid Geometry (CSG) solid modeling system that includes interactive 3D solid geometry editing, high-performance ray-tracing support for rendering and geometric analysis, network-distributed framebuffer support, image and signal-processing tools, path-tracing and photon mapping support for realistic image synthesis, a system performance analysis benchmark suite, an embedded scripting interface, and libraries for robust high-performance geometric representation and analysis.







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                                BRL-CAD



                                Maybe BRL-CAD would suit:




                                BRL-CAD is a powerful cross-platform Open Source combinatorial Constructive Solid Geometry (CSG) solid modeling system that includes interactive 3D solid geometry editing, high-performance ray-tracing support for rendering and geometric analysis, network-distributed framebuffer support, image and signal-processing tools, path-tracing and photon mapping support for realistic image synthesis, a system performance analysis benchmark suite, an embedded scripting interface, and libraries for robust high-performance geometric representation and analysis.







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                                  BRL-CAD



                                  Maybe BRL-CAD would suit:




                                  BRL-CAD is a powerful cross-platform Open Source combinatorial Constructive Solid Geometry (CSG) solid modeling system that includes interactive 3D solid geometry editing, high-performance ray-tracing support for rendering and geometric analysis, network-distributed framebuffer support, image and signal-processing tools, path-tracing and photon mapping support for realistic image synthesis, a system performance analysis benchmark suite, an embedded scripting interface, and libraries for robust high-performance geometric representation and analysis.







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                                  BRL-CAD



                                  Maybe BRL-CAD would suit:




                                  BRL-CAD is a powerful cross-platform Open Source combinatorial Constructive Solid Geometry (CSG) solid modeling system that includes interactive 3D solid geometry editing, high-performance ray-tracing support for rendering and geometric analysis, network-distributed framebuffer support, image and signal-processing tools, path-tracing and photon mapping support for realistic image synthesis, a system performance analysis benchmark suite, an embedded scripting interface, and libraries for robust high-performance geometric representation and analysis.








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                                      There is no free 3D solid modelling CAD software worth using.



                                      FreeCAD is the only one coming close, but "close" in a relative sense... It does not do fillets well, boolean operators do not work, you can't even create sketch planes!



                                      So unless you want trivially simple, blocky models for free then you are out of luck.






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                                        While FreeCAD suffers from having very few developers, bugs (many due to the third-party geometric modeling kernel) and lack of features, it can create sketches in an plane you need, and it can do a lot more than "trivially simple, blocky models". One just has to visit the official forum's "Users showcase" to confirm this.

                                        – Norm C.
                                        May 1 '15 at 2:19
















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                                      There is no free 3D solid modelling CAD software worth using.



                                      FreeCAD is the only one coming close, but "close" in a relative sense... It does not do fillets well, boolean operators do not work, you can't even create sketch planes!



                                      So unless you want trivially simple, blocky models for free then you are out of luck.






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                                        While FreeCAD suffers from having very few developers, bugs (many due to the third-party geometric modeling kernel) and lack of features, it can create sketches in an plane you need, and it can do a lot more than "trivially simple, blocky models". One just has to visit the official forum's "Users showcase" to confirm this.

                                        – Norm C.
                                        May 1 '15 at 2:19














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                                      There is no free 3D solid modelling CAD software worth using.



                                      FreeCAD is the only one coming close, but "close" in a relative sense... It does not do fillets well, boolean operators do not work, you can't even create sketch planes!



                                      So unless you want trivially simple, blocky models for free then you are out of luck.






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                                      There is no free 3D solid modelling CAD software worth using.



                                      FreeCAD is the only one coming close, but "close" in a relative sense... It does not do fillets well, boolean operators do not work, you can't even create sketch planes!



                                      So unless you want trivially simple, blocky models for free then you are out of luck.







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                                        While FreeCAD suffers from having very few developers, bugs (many due to the third-party geometric modeling kernel) and lack of features, it can create sketches in an plane you need, and it can do a lot more than "trivially simple, blocky models". One just has to visit the official forum's "Users showcase" to confirm this.

                                        – Norm C.
                                        May 1 '15 at 2:19














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                                        While FreeCAD suffers from having very few developers, bugs (many due to the third-party geometric modeling kernel) and lack of features, it can create sketches in an plane you need, and it can do a lot more than "trivially simple, blocky models". One just has to visit the official forum's "Users showcase" to confirm this.

                                        – Norm C.
                                        May 1 '15 at 2:19








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                                      While FreeCAD suffers from having very few developers, bugs (many due to the third-party geometric modeling kernel) and lack of features, it can create sketches in an plane you need, and it can do a lot more than "trivially simple, blocky models". One just has to visit the official forum's "Users showcase" to confirm this.

                                      – Norm C.
                                      May 1 '15 at 2:19





                                      While FreeCAD suffers from having very few developers, bugs (many due to the third-party geometric modeling kernel) and lack of features, it can create sketches in an plane you need, and it can do a lot more than "trivially simple, blocky models". One just has to visit the official forum's "Users showcase" to confirm this.

                                      – Norm C.
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                                      Sometimes you have to pay for real software. Varicad is a very good linux compatible system and the price is very decent indeed. I have tested it against Solidworks and it performs just fine. It does not have built in FEA but there are many such programs for Linux. Try the free trial and see.






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                                        Sometimes you have to pay for real software. Varicad is a very good linux compatible system and the price is very decent indeed. I have tested it against Solidworks and it performs just fine. It does not have built in FEA but there are many such programs for Linux. Try the free trial and see.






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                                          Sometimes you have to pay for real software. Varicad is a very good linux compatible system and the price is very decent indeed. I have tested it against Solidworks and it performs just fine. It does not have built in FEA but there are many such programs for Linux. Try the free trial and see.






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                                          Sometimes you have to pay for real software. Varicad is a very good linux compatible system and the price is very decent indeed. I have tested it against Solidworks and it performs just fine. It does not have built in FEA but there are many such programs for Linux. Try the free trial and see.







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                                              Try Nanocad with the Wine emulator. Nanocad is the most similar software to Autocad I have found; I haven't tried it with Ubuntu but you can take a look at Wine's page for more information on how to run the Windows version on Linux.






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                                                Try Nanocad with the Wine emulator. Nanocad is the most similar software to Autocad I have found; I haven't tried it with Ubuntu but you can take a look at Wine's page for more information on how to run the Windows version on Linux.






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                                                  Try Nanocad with the Wine emulator. Nanocad is the most similar software to Autocad I have found; I haven't tried it with Ubuntu but you can take a look at Wine's page for more information on how to run the Windows version on Linux.






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                                                  Try Nanocad with the Wine emulator. Nanocad is the most similar software to Autocad I have found; I haven't tried it with Ubuntu but you can take a look at Wine's page for more information on how to run the Windows version on Linux.







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                                                      You must be looking for something like MEDUSA Mechanical CAD: http://www.cad-schroer.com/products.html. I don't know how good it is, never used it, but it's the only specialized CAD i found in linux.






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                                                        You must be looking for something like MEDUSA Mechanical CAD: http://www.cad-schroer.com/products.html. I don't know how good it is, never used it, but it's the only specialized CAD i found in linux.






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                                                          You must be looking for something like MEDUSA Mechanical CAD: http://www.cad-schroer.com/products.html. I don't know how good it is, never used it, but it's the only specialized CAD i found in linux.






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                                                          You must be looking for something like MEDUSA Mechanical CAD: http://www.cad-schroer.com/products.html. I don't know how good it is, never used it, but it's the only specialized CAD i found in linux.







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                                                              use SIEMENS PLM NX. Although its not free and there is no ubuntu inbuilt support but u can use it via adding some libraries and applying some modifications to your os as it is supported in redhat and suse linux






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                                                                Could you please expand on "adding some libraries and applying some modifications"? Otherwise this answer looks like a low-quality post.

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                                                              use SIEMENS PLM NX. Although its not free and there is no ubuntu inbuilt support but u can use it via adding some libraries and applying some modifications to your os as it is supported in redhat and suse linux






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                                                                Could you please expand on "adding some libraries and applying some modifications"? Otherwise this answer looks like a low-quality post.

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                                                              use SIEMENS PLM NX. Although its not free and there is no ubuntu inbuilt support but u can use it via adding some libraries and applying some modifications to your os as it is supported in redhat and suse linux






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                                                              use SIEMENS PLM NX. Although its not free and there is no ubuntu inbuilt support but u can use it via adding some libraries and applying some modifications to your os as it is supported in redhat and suse linux







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                                                                Could you please expand on "adding some libraries and applying some modifications"? Otherwise this answer looks like a low-quality post.

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                                                              Could you please expand on "adding some libraries and applying some modifications"? Otherwise this answer looks like a low-quality post.

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                                                              Could you please expand on "adding some libraries and applying some modifications"? Otherwise this answer looks like a low-quality post.

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                                                              EQUINOX-3D has advanced freeform and numeric CAD, photorealistic / physically based rendering, animation, and tons of other features.

                                                              We use it heavily and exclusively for advanced CAD modeling / 3D printing very complex, organic shapes, like robot parts.
                                                              Here's the list of the latest features, movies, etc.



                                                              All images and movies on the Web site were a 100% created with EQUINOX-3D






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                                                                EQUINOX-3D has advanced freeform and numeric CAD, photorealistic / physically based rendering, animation, and tons of other features.

                                                                We use it heavily and exclusively for advanced CAD modeling / 3D printing very complex, organic shapes, like robot parts.
                                                                Here's the list of the latest features, movies, etc.



                                                                All images and movies on the Web site were a 100% created with EQUINOX-3D






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                                                                  EQUINOX-3D has advanced freeform and numeric CAD, photorealistic / physically based rendering, animation, and tons of other features.

                                                                  We use it heavily and exclusively for advanced CAD modeling / 3D printing very complex, organic shapes, like robot parts.
                                                                  Here's the list of the latest features, movies, etc.



                                                                  All images and movies on the Web site were a 100% created with EQUINOX-3D






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                                                                  EQUINOX-3D has advanced freeform and numeric CAD, photorealistic / physically based rendering, animation, and tons of other features.

                                                                  We use it heavily and exclusively for advanced CAD modeling / 3D printing very complex, organic shapes, like robot parts.
                                                                  Here's the list of the latest features, movies, etc.



                                                                  All images and movies on the Web site were a 100% created with EQUINOX-3D







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