On Sun, 2004-11-28 at 10:04, Ken Elliott wrote:
> All you AutoCAD guys might want to check this out. IntelliCAD is a low-cost
> AutoCAD clone that reads/writes DWG and builds upon your AutoCAD knowledge.
> http://www.bricscad.com/news/BricsCad%20goes%20Linux%20English.htm
IntelliCAD is a consortium of licensees now:
http://www.intellicad.org
For those that didn't know of IntelliCAD prior, it was started by 3 (was
it?) former AutoDesk guys who didn't have any NDA or other agreement
that prevented them from building a clone. So they basically built a
$500 AutoCAD clone that read DWG _directly_ and did _full_ 2D/3D.
Visio bought them out, then Microsoft bought out Visio, and then
IntelliCAD was quashed as a product. Not coincidentally, AutoCAD
dropped AutoLisp and adopted VBScript, and became Win32-only shortly
afterwards. Now IntelliCAD is largely sold for a flat licensing fee.
BricsCAD ( http://www.bricscad.com/ ) is one of them. They make their
release 100% WINE (run-time) compatible, including full OpenGL support.
I've been running their betas since April -- excellent performance on
nVidia cards. I can't tell if I'm running under native Win32 or WINE
(originally had a GeForce4 Ti4200 128MB, now have a GeForce 6800GT
256MB).
How long Microsoft will continue to allow a licensee to make their
product WINE compatible, I don't know. I assume they can't do much,
unless it becomes really popular. BricsCAD says they are working on a
native port via WINELIB, but I have to believe Microsoft would yank
their license if they did that. The WINE run-time version seems to work
perfectly for me with any stock WINE build for Fedora, so I don't see
much reason for a WINELIB port (given the possible loss of license).
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