[Ilugc] Any Open Office like equivalent for AUTOCAD in

[SRIKANTH NS]

From: "R Hariram Aatreya" <rhariram at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [Ilugc] Any Open Office like equivalent for AUTOCAD in
Linux?
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> Will anybody point out a software which can read AUTOCAD Drawings (.dwg format) in LInux? Like OpenOffice which can read all MS Office format files, edit them and save them back in .doc or .xls format itself? I would like to read .dwg drawings , edit them and save them in in .dwg format itself.
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See this thread:
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.org.user-groups.linux.ilugc/41043/focus=41055

hari.


> Or am i asking for the moon?
>
> NS Srikanth
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I found that QCAD opens the AUTOCAD Files which are saved in .dxf format. But it only opens, thats all ....... No hatching lines are seen. Dimension lines are grotesque ..... Dimensions are in miniscule font size........

I am yet to download BRL CAD and use it. Does it offer smooth transition like Open office offers for MS Word files ( no loss of formatiing, fonts not getting distortrd etc.,)?

NS Srikanth