Solidworks and other industry-class CAD software on linux

astropenguin5@lemmy.world to Linux@lemmy.ml – 49 points –

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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ares commander. It's cross platform and relatively inexpensive. They ship .rpm .deb and tarballs.

First time hearing of that, how does it compare with autocad?

For me it's been a drop in replacement, it feels very similar. I don't use all the features. It has LISP scripting support and a lot of the recent updates have been dealing w/ BIM. I do a lot of 2d drafting with the occasional 3d drawing to have something machined or printed.