Opening CAD Files in Ubuntu

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Working at new company and differ environment make me explore and expose to new experience … with the latest concurrent multiple project running …. banking system application , enterprise portal and ICT consulting …

My biggest challenging and experience is working with the Mechanical & Electrical (M&E) engineers, C&S , Architect is they are working on the same format and file that is CAD . So why i say it biggest challenging is i doesn’t know any software that can work in Ubuntu (maybe lack of OSS application knowledge) but i’ve try to find before .. then i have no choice need to work with the proprietary software such as AutoCAD. Luckily today while i browsing my facebook … i saw an advertising banner about FREE CAD software. I then straight away go to the website and reading the information and its saw support multi platform include linux.

http://www.3ds.com/products/draftsight/free-cad-software/

I straight away download and excited to try in Ubuntu since they already package the installer. After download and try to install , i discover its need some dependencies ,

sudo apt-get install libdirectfb-extra sendmail

sudo dpkg -i DraftSight.deb

Its required an activation so u need to register with your email address and activated it with the given link in your email. Finally ………………….

 

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