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by **Bernhard Ze** » Wed, 15 Jul 1998 04:00:00

Hi everybody,

We are using parametric solid modeling software such as Solidworks
on a win95 Platform.

We wonder, if there is any good parametric solid modeling software around
for Linux?

Does anybody know it?

Thank you very much.

Regards

Bernhard Zeh

by **Erik Rosse** » Wed, 15 Jul 1998 04:00:00

Quote:> We wonder, if there is any good parametric solid modeling software around
> for Linux?

The only one that I know of is Microstation 95 by Bentley. They have an
"academic" version with no support. They are at
http://www.bentley.com/academic/products/linux.htm
I don't know what the price is, but the non-academic stuff is on the
order of US$3000 (I think). They had a stand at Computer '98 in
Lausanne and I chatted with the guy. He didn't know much about UNIX and
he gave me a price only for a complete workstation (Sfr20,000) with the
software installed.

There is a new solid modeller out called VariCAD at
http://www.varicad.com that has a fully implemented free demo version
that you can download. The only thing that it doesn't do is save
files. It costs about US$300.

Erik.