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Asked on January 3, 2017 in AutoCAD.
I believe you can also add your custom arrow heads to leaders by creating a block and in ‘dimstyle’ set your block as the new arrow/tick mark
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Asked on December 10, 2016 in AutoCAD.
“AutoCAD is Windows only, and won’t work in Ubuntu.” – AutoCAD Support Team
but guess what? you can run AutoCAD in a Virual Machine on Linux, If you are on Ubuntu go ahead and install KVM – Virtual Machine Boxif it’s not yet installed on your system
1) KVM Installation – Follow the tutorial here: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/KVM/VirtManager
2)Installing windows 7 in KVM
3)Install AutoCAD like you normally would on a windows machine.
Other free CAD software on Linux:
There are numerous options, choose the one that you like best.- PyCAD
- Medusa:
- Download the free software for personal use.
- Download: medusa4_v4_0_0_linux_pers
onal.sh - After downloading the above file, it needs to be marked as executable, so it can be run. To do this, run: chmod +x filename.sh in a terminal
- It needs to be executed as root, so use sudo: sudo ./ filename.sh
- Installation & More information: Here
- Draftsight
- Librecad
- Its already in Ubuntu Repositories.
- You can get it by running: sudo apt-get install librecad
- More Information: Librecad
- Let’s not forget Google Sketchup – Built for Architecture work but later expanded it include woodworking and even mechanical solid modeling
- zwcad – Cost-effective, light-weight and DWG compatible CAD platform; This is the closest CAD software to AutoCAD the runs on LINUX Machines
Hope this helps ?
This answer accepted by EngineerLife. on January 31, 2017 Earned 15 points.
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