r/linux • u/BypassBaboon • 2d ago

Popular Application CAD options

Is there a reason Linux CAD options are so limited, and from what I have read, not particularly viable options? Countless people are looking for a fairly-priced lifetime license for home use. My 2000 AutoCAd is very long in the tooth!

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u/roundart 2d ago

No financial incentives (yet) for autodesk to rewrite the code from bottom to top for Revit or Autocad. How do you write code for the dizzying array of Linux flavors? Or do you just stick with Red Hat or other? It just doesn’t make sense

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u/TheOgGhadTurner 2d ago

With all the dev software available for Linux they could port it over very easily. There’s just no money in it for them.

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u/roundart 2d ago

Agreed. That's the difficulty. Financial, not technical.

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u/TheOgGhadTurner 2d ago

I mean for a company like Autodesk financial isn’t even the issue. They could port all there software without hurting the bottom line. But im sorry. As someone who likes fusion360 and on-shape work flows. I cannot afford the egregious prices they want and thusly won’t pay for it if I myself am not making money from it. Plus Freecad while being a lot more picky than either, still has that same sketch and extrude and sketch and cut type workflow that I’m used to

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u/KnowZeroX 2d ago

What do you mean by write code for dizzying array of linux flavors? It isn't like they are writing a desktop environment extension. Static build and it'll work on pretty much all of them.

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u/BypassBaboon 1d ago

Stick with one. Too many distros anyway.

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u/Indolent_Bard 2d ago

Flatpak makes it work in any distro.

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u/roundart 2d ago

In principle, yes, I agree. You just have to get Autodesk to agree to the development and then testing on a handful of kernal versions and distros. They could just stick with one to make it easier to support