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Solidworks and other industry-class CAD software on linux (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I am about to go to college for engineering and they require a Windows laptop because of the software we will be using (mostly solidworks I'm pretty sure) doesn't work on other operating systems. I primarily use windows day-to-day for gaming and such anyways so it's not a problem for me but I'm wondering if anyone had experience using solidworks or any other industry-class CAD software like Inventor on linux

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Using Fusion360 in a Virtualbox, works okish for the few things I'm doing. There are several projects on GitHub for running it with Wine, but wasn't able to get them working on my machine. Maybe not industry Standard, but I'm also using OpenSCAD from time to time for smaller things (especially when I want to publish them).

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Im pretty sure Inventor is the other main industry cad software, and considering they are both Autodesk it may also work ok.

I've used OpenScad a little, definitely agree it's only good for small things.