New Betas of CAD Software

General CADD Pro

General CADD Pro v2.1.37 (and list of fixes) can be downloaded from here.

The beta of General CADD Pro v3.0.12 is also available for testing and download. Check out the new user-customizable toolbars, spell checker, and the new GT and OT commands. A discussion forum is here.

BricsCAD for Linux

You can download the beta release of BricsCAD v5 for Linux from here. On the download page, you find a new trial license key for BricsCad V5 for Linux, valid until end of September 2004.

BricsCad V5 improves performance, and contains more than 200 fixes -- including numerous fixes and improvements related to running on WINE. (BricsCad V5 for Linux runs in the WINE environment, and has been tested on SuSE, RED HAT and FEDORA CORE.) Check out the support forum here.

Update

Robert Davis alerts me that ProgeSOFT of Italy is porting IntelliCAD to Linux, calling it "CADforLINUX".

There are very few details, so I don't know if the effort is similar to (or the same as) BricsCAD.

Comments

[Jim Longley]

While I am NOT an apple user, I do "eye" it occasonally. OSX will run a number of Linux/Unix apps under it's X-windows environment, including the KDE desktop and OpenOffice. Perhaps it will be just a matter of some short time period that one of these AutoCAD-a-likes does a "relatively-simple" (bad word I know) recompile for the PowerPC processor such that one of these Linux-ized CADs will operate in the KDE-on-OSX environment. While not being exactly AutoCAD for OSX (as some a lobbying for), it might prove to be a viable alternative. I wonder....

JimL

[Jim Faliveno]

- General CADD Pro Update -
Since this posting, the current version of General CADD Pro is now v3.1.22a. GCP version 4.1 is currently in BETA testing. 8-2-2005

[Jim Faliveno]

- General CADD Pro Update -

General CADD Pro version 4.1 was released 12-20-05. Details of this release are available at http://www.generalcadd.com/101release.htm

Version 5.0 open BETA testing will begin in Spring, 2006.

[Jim Faliveno]

- General CADD Pro Update -

The open BETA test of General CADD Pro Version 5 is now underway. The download page is http://www.generalcadd.com/downloads-BETA5.htm