Bangalore, India
One of the most important 'behind-the-scenes' activites in Bricsys over the past year or more has been the development of the native Linux version of Bricscad. The results are now out for the CAD community to see and experience. The Linux version of Bricscad is available in Beta and works pretty well. I have installed Ubuntu Linux on my laptop on an Oracle Virtual Box machine sitting alongside with Window 7 and it works pretty well and is quite stable. You can download it from the Bricsys web-site and give it a go.
Lisp/Visual Lisp is fully supported at the moment and BRX will be supported in the future, according to Bricsys sources. The level of Lisp compatibility is very high. Even vlax... functions are implemented and Bricsys benchmarks indicate that many of them run even faster than they do in Windows. This Linux development is a feat that neither AutoCAD nor ZWCAD or any other IntelliCAD-based clone can boast about. It is yet another path-breaking development from Bricsys that will help you lower your per-seat cost even further by way of reduced operating system software costs. Ideal for large-number-of-seats CAD deployment with minimal investment.
Our productivity software for AutoCAD and Bricscad, GeoTools, is almost entirely Autolisp / Visual Lisp based. We have already started preliminary testing of GeoTools on Linux and hope to release a version for Linux in the coming months as soon as we iron out all the rough corners.
At Coordinate Systems, we are excited about porting GeoTools on Linux. Some of the screenshots here show a preview of pre-pre- alpha version of GeoTools, running on Ubuntu Linux & Bricscad.
The screenshot on your right shows the GT_VXLABEL command from GeoTools,
This command uses pure (native) AutoLisp functions, DCL dialogs with lots of calls to the command line.
Here, you see the GT_CONTLABEL command from GeoTools.
Plenty of (vlax-curve...) related Lisp calls and intimate access to the (command) functions were tested. You can see the annotations across a cutting line which intersected the contours.
As you can see, both the commands run perfectly in Linux. Testing continues and we should release a version for Linux soon.
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Posted by: Ruben | August 27, 2010 at 02:25