[mdlug] CAD vs CAE (for linux)

[R. Kannan]

-----Original Message-----
>From: Robert Adkins <radkins at impelind.com>
>Sent: Jul 9, 2007 9:07 AM
>To: MDLUG's Main discussion list <mdlug at mdlug.org>
>Subject: Re: [mdlug] CAD vs CAE (for linux)
>
>-------- Original Message  --------
>Subject: [mdlug] CAD vs CAE (for linux)
>From: dean <mdlug at sbcglobal.net>
>To: MDLUG's Main discussion list <mdlug at mdlug.org>
>Date: Sunday, July 08, 2007 8:50:24 AM
>> Hello, I was wondering if anyone can shed any light on this question:  
>> Why does it seem like most if not all of the major CAE vendors have 
>> converted their apps to linux but the CAD vendors have not?
>>
>> At my current job, my boss likes linux and we use it wherever we can, 
>> along with legacy unix.   He would like to roll out CAD linux boxes, but 
>> neither UG nor Catia are available for linux.  
>>
>> Does it have to do with 3d graphics?   Hypermesh, Ansa, and Star CD all 
>> use graphics, and they all exist for linux.   We use them on linux.    
>> And abaqus, I think.   
>>
>> Is it politics and/or M$ money?     
>>
>> TIA, &, Scratching my head, Dean
>>   
>    This absolutely beats me.
>
>    UG and Catia are/were both born upon UNIX, so it seems to me that it 
>should be far from immeasurably difficult to port over to Linux.

IIRC from a CATIA class I took a couple of years back, CATIA on Windoze has more customizable features (through VB) as compared to UNIX versions.

BTW, I now work for a company owned by Dassault Systemes (the parent company of CATIA) I have been here only for the past 4 months) and I do not know why CATIA favors Windoze over UNIX/LINUX.

>
>    The French made CAD/CAM package we use is/was initially launched on 
>UNIX as well, it still has some UNIX-y feel to certain aspects of it and 
>may well still be available on UNIX in France, just not in the US...
>
>    All I can say/suggest is keep requesting Linux ports and maybe one 
>day that will happen.
>
>    -Rob
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