Open source alternative to ArchiCAD for ubuntu 8.10 x64

[Karl F. Larsen]

kmadananteshwar.vbhat at gmail.com wrote:
> Hi karl .. Thanx 4 the advice but I wasn't referring to auto cad and what I really meant was that I wanted to know weather or not there are any open source 3D/2D CAD/Building Information Modeling software available for Ubuntu and I said ARCHICAD not AUTOCAD 

    In the USA there are 3 types of Autocad you can buy. They are Civil, 
Mechanical, and Architectural drawing software and each package costs 
about $3500.00 each. My son is a Civil Engineer and he owns 3 copies for 
his business.

     If your doing work for Business in the USA they will not accept 
your work if it is done on any other software. In other countries they 
may not be the same.

    I went to Google and you can't buy ANY version of Autocad for 
Ubuntu. There is a new version called Autocad LT which they sell for 
just under $500.00 which is a real good deal but it runs on Windows.

Karl

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> Date: Thu, 19 Mar 2009 06:23:15 
> To: <madanabhat27 at gmail.com>; Ubuntu user technical support, not for general discussions<ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com>
> Subject: Re: Open source alternative to ArchiCAD for ubuntu 8.10 x64
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> madanabhat27 at gmail.com wrote:
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>> Hi folks ! 
>> I deal with a lot of CAD and Building Information Modeling coz I design a lot of houses and other such buildings as I am an architect and as I would have probably told you guys in my last email I have just migrated from MS Windows Vista Business x64 and I would like to know weather or not there are any open source alternatives for my trusty ArchiCAD which are compatible with Ubuntu 8.10 x64 and if so then how much do they cost ? 
>> Yours , 
>> KMB
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>     There are no AutoCAD products written for Linux. It is all written 
> for windows and I think you might be smart to go back to Windows XP. 
> Vista has many issues.
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> Karl
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