I\'m looking for a 3d modeling toolkit for Ubuntu Linux to replace Autodesk Inve

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I'm looking for a 3d modeling toolkit for Ubuntu Linux to replace Autodesk Inventor, which I had been running on an old Windows box. As I am working on projects with others that use Inventor, parametric and constraint-based modeling as well as support for parts/assemblies and 2d drawings generated from parts/assemblies are a must.

Interoperability with Autodesk file formats would be useful but is not necessary in my case.

I've tried Inventor itself through Wine (garbage), VirtualBox (fails to start in spite of 3d graphics support, also I don't have enough RAM to launch a VM and the software), and am using it on an older Windows box that desperately needs to be retired (due to aging hardware).

If anyone has any suggestions that would work that would be much appreciated.

Explanation / Answer

Freecad is good, but lacks the refinement from software like Inventor or Solidworks (I use the last one). ProE had a linux version until few years ago, lately NX from Siemens is spreading in linux engineering, that is a full size package, closer to Catia than Inventor. That is what you are looking for. It is officially supported in redhat and suse (linux enterprise) only, but I saw people running it in debian, ubuntu, and arch linux. Now I remember bricscad from bricsis, pretty similar to autocad, narocad, heekscad, medusa4, varicad, actually you have options. I recommend you test all them, all them have their own advantages.

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