Selected Test Results (selected in 'Test Results' table below)
What works
LandDesktop, most of other functions previously mentioned. Using Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic and Wine 1.1.31. Plotting works.
What does not
Still can not get MT to work with this setup. I had it working but must sacrifice MT and properties for usability of LandDesktop and supporting modules. At this time can not load Survey module. Have yet to try to interface with data collector.
What was not tested
Have yet to update ACAD 2000 with the three service packs and have yet to upload the plotting patch also.
Additional Comments
Still experimenting and trying to get to work even better. Would say my install is 80-90% working. I have two ./.wine directories. One in which MT works, but not LandDesktop, and a second in which LandDesktop works but MT does not (for the moment). Am using XCFE & Gnome environments.
pierre
1. Use recent version of Wine(tested with Wine-1.1.17, Wine-1.1.25)
2. Download winetricks by following command
wget http://www.kegel.com/wine/winetricks
3. Install required components by following command
sh winetricks corefonts dcom98 gecko mdac25 mfc40
riched30 tahoma win2k
It will take some time because winetricks will download all above components
4. navigate to your AutoCAD 2000 CD and run
wine setup.exe
PlayOnLinux way
You can install your AutoCAD 2000 using PlayOnLinux (some kind of gui for Wine). I think it's the easiest method because script will tell you step by step what to do. To do so you'll need:
Do not use Wine 1.1.19 because in this version there is a regression which causes toolbars to be mis-sized.
The following comments are owned by whoever posted them. WineHQ is not responsible for what they say.
Wine 1.2 & Acad2000
by Pierre Stragier on Saturday December 26th 2009, 14:07
With the implementation of Wine 1.2 most of the "bugs" went away. Undo works, Mtext really works, most of Land Desktop works and even installs "almost" seamlessly, and I can get images to work. Have not tested extensively, but prior to Wine 1.2 Acad2000 was 85-90% usable, and now more like 90-95% usable. Have yet to test uploading/downloading data via the serial port for the Survey module.
Works pretty well, but...
by ezzetabi on Tuesday July 7th 2009, 10:56
The first time you start autocad, when wine is preparing its environment there is a call to msiexec.exe that crashes.
Here is a piece of the log:
err:module:DelayLoadFailureHook failed to delay load rpcrt4.dll.I_RpcExceptionFilter
wine: Call from 0x7ee1e7c2 to unimplemented function rpcrt4.dll.I_RpcExceptionFilter, aborting
wine: Unimplemented function rpcrt4.dll.I_RpcExceptionFilter called at address 0x7ee1e7c2 (thread 0023), starting debugger...
Later the execution of acad.exe continues fine. Any idea of the reason?
I have wine 1.1.25, I executed the winetricks commandline suggested here and the four updates suggested by alxarch.wordpress.com/2008/04/20/autocad-2000-in-wine-howto .
small bug but all else perfect
by Swastik Harish on Sunday April 13th 2008, 14:14
i have pretty much everything working
3d completely workable in, including shading, etc fps in orbit/pan fine.)
as said in previous post, change default text editor for mtext problems. not easiest to use but works 100%.
for problems in not recognizing some commands, reinstall. ignore any warnings while running after.
FONTS:
natively created mtext in any font is fine. opening old files with fonts like arial, times, verdana etc (msfonts??) do not render in viewports or even register as objects. installing msttcorefonts helps zilch.
panning/zooming/orbiting with natively created mtext is fast enough for use, with text created 'earlier' it slows down to 0.1 fps.
fyi new toolbar windows will not dock, don't consider that big impediment.
AND running Inkscape to check for same font rendering fault. shows that Inkscape fps in panning/zooming is fine but finite, to a maximum zoom level. not at all like autocad where drawing limits are infinite or configurable.
Font Problem with MTEXT resolved
by ronald artos on Tuesday March 25th 2008, 3:30
I found a quick-fix for AutoCAD 2000 Text problem.
1. Select TOOLS ---> OPTIONS
2. Then on the FILE tab, select TEXT EDITORS, DICTIONARY ....
3. change the the TEXT EDITOR APPLICATION to c:\windows\notepad.
