From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Aug 21 9:53:15 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from femail18.sdc1.sfba.home.com (femail18.sdc1.sfba.home.com [24.0.95.145]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 920E437B40A for ; Tue, 21 Aug 2001 09:53:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from swheeler@mce.ab.ca) Received: from daddys ([24.71.228.6]) by femail18.sdc1.sfba.home.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.20 201-229-121-120-20010223) with SMTP id <20010821165311.PWGW11956.femail18.sdc1.sfba.home.com@daddys> for ; Tue, 21 Aug 2001 09:53:11 -0700 Message-ID: <05af01c12a61$9c444a40$0d00a8c0@mshome.net> From: "Shannon Wheeler" To: References: <20010821095448.A76991-100000@klima.physik.uni-mainz.de> <20010821095029.B31489@polands.org> Subject: Re: suitable CAD system for scientific use? Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2001 10:52:06 -0600 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4807.1700 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4807.1700 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG From: "Doug Poland" Sent: Tuesday, August 21, 2001 7:50 AM > On Tue, Aug 21, 2001 at 10:09:24AM +0200, Hartmann, O. wrote: > > > > As a geologist I need several kinds of software to take field researches > > into a reproduceable media. With Windooze based PCs most scientists > > around here use a combination of AutoCAD and ArcInfo/ArcView and I wish > > to offer a similar system for use at the institute and for personal use > > on our FreeBSD cluster. > > > I'm a former AutoCAD and ARC/INFO programmer (on both UNIX and NT). I'd > say you're most likely to succeed if... > > 1. Autodesk or ESRI release their products on Linux (don't hold your breath). > or > 2. Autodesk or ESRI release their products on OS/X. It won't be FreeBSD > but it may actually happen. What about MicroStation? Any Unix versions of it? It probably wouldn't be free but at least the OS could be. hmmm.... There's free internet, office & multimedia packages for FreeBSD. There's ray tracers and all sorts of 'scientific' calculation programs. But I haven't seen any drafting packages - at least not powerful (or modern) ones (for any OS). Maybe a herd of FreeBSD programmers should start such a project... You know, all those guys looking for some way to help the open software movement but unable to find themselves something that wasn't already done. Shannon To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message