by Scainet  on (December 14th 2008)

100% Functional!

The problem was always with AutoCAD using the. NET Framework 2.0 to operate, and how language is fairly new, providing such support is not easy, but with the effort of the group have managed to make Wine. NET is installed and running on Linux.

To install, the program must be downloaded and then using winetricks select dotnet2.0 and MSXML3.

Finally, install any other AutoCAD 2008 software.

wget www.kegel.com / wine / winetricks

sh winetricks

Select dotnet2.0 and MSXML3.

Install Autocad 2008 ...

Done!

(ed: translated from spanish and edited by myself(Nat) 2008/12/30)

by NSLW on (February 7th 2009)

Preparing for install

1. Use recent version of Wine(tested with wine-1.1.14, wine-1.1.17, wine-1.1.20)

2. Download winetricks by following command

 wget http://www.kegel.com/wine/winetricks

3. Install required components by following command

 sh winetricks corefonts dotnet20 gdiplus gecko msxml3 vcrun2003

It will take some time because winetricks will download all above components

Installing

1. From CD's
I didn't tested this method.
2. From HDD
          2.1 copy content of both CD's to single directory on your hdd
          2.2 navigate to this directory and run setup.exe
          2.3 make default install

Running AutoCAD

The setup should create shortcut on your desktop if not create a launcher manually (Type: Application ; Command: env WINEPREFIX="/home/EnterYourUserNameHere/.wine" wine "C:\Program Files\AutoCAD 2008\acad.exe")

Recommended

1. turn off compiz fusion
2. in winecfg: under "Graphics" tab uncheck "Allow the window manager to decorate the windows" then Apply
3. in AutoCAD: Tools-> Options -> System ->Performance Settings -> Manual Tune -> change Driver name to OpenGL

Known problems

1. No possibility to configure setup
2. No possibility to activate the product
3. Toolbars don't display correctly if undocked but you can still move and dock them

Installing Service Pack

1. download autocad2008lockedsp1.exe from www.autodesk.com
2. place it in root of your home directory
3. run it
4. manually copy patch files to AutoCAD 2008 root directory by

cp -t ~/.wine/drive_c/Program\ Files/AutoCAD\ 2008 ~/Autodesk/AutoCAD\ 2008/R17.1/enu/* -r

Howto install in other directory

You have to do it all in terminal and on linux file systems. First you have to create wineprefix.

wineprefixcreate --prefix EnterHerePathToCreateWineprefix

For my path I assumed "/media/Disk1/AutoCAD2008" but your can choose other and you must avoid spaces in names. So in my case it should looks like

wineprefixcreate --prefix /media/Disk1/AutoCAD2008

Now you have to do as in default Howto with following exceptions:

1. The step with installing required components

instead of

sh winetricks corefonts dotnet20 gdiplus gecko msxml3 vcrun2003

use

env WINEPREFIX=/media/Disk1/AutoCAD2008 sh winetricks corefonts dotnet20 gdiplus gecko msxml3 vcrun2003

To check if all went correctly you may check the size of "AutoCAD2008" directory. If the size is ca. 295.2 MB then you did it right.

2. The step with installation from hdd

 2.1 go to where you copied your two CD's by

cd "PathToWhereYouCopiedYourTwoCD's"

In my case it was "/media/Disk1/AutoCADSetup". So it should looks like

cd "/media/Disk1/AutoCADSetup"

 2.2 run setup.exe by

env WINEPREFIX=/media/Disk1/AutoCADSetup wine setup

3. To create a shortcut

instead of

env WINEPREFIX="/home/EnterYourUserNameHere/.wine"

use 

env WINEPREFIX="/media/Disk1/AutoCAD2008"

4. To make second step in Recommended

instead of 

winecfg

 use

env WINEPREFIX="/media/Disk1/AutoCAD2008" winecfg

5. To install service pack

1.make link of"/media/Disk1/AutoCAD2008" rename it to "AutoCAD2008" and copy to root of your home directory

2. run it by

cp -t ~/AutoCAD2008/drive_c/Program\ Files/AutoCAD\ 2008 ~/Autodesk/AutoCAD\ 2008/R17.1/enu/* -r

6. To do Helpful advices

instead of backuping and deleting in

"~/wine."

do it in

"/media/Disk1/AutoCAD2008"

Helpful advices

If you would like to save time and don't want to reinstall AutoCAD every 30 days do as described below.

1. after installation and before first run of AutoCAD make yourself a backup of "system.reg" file which is in "~/.wine/"

2. after 30 days delete "Software Licenses" directory which is in "~/.wine/drive_c/windows/profiles/All Users/Application Data/Autodesk/" and recover your backup you've made in first point

Do not use Wine 1.1.12 because in this version there is a regression which prevents successful install of .NET Framework 2.0 resulting in AutoCAD setup failure.

Do not use Wine 1.1.19 because in this version there is a regression which causes toolbars to be mis-sized.

Starting from Wine 1.1.13 you have got ability to enable font smoothing. To do so you have to have got tahoma font installed through  winetricks and add in your registry following values:

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop]
"FontSmoothing"="2"
"FontSmoothingType"=dword:00000002
"FontSmoothingGamma"=dword:00000578
"FontSmoothingOrientation"=dword:00000001

You can install your AutoCAD 2008 using PlayOnLinux (some kind of gui for Wine). I think it's the easiest method when you want to install in other directory because script will tell you step by step what to do. It's also good way to test DIB Engine without compiling from source. To do so you'll need:

    1. PlayOnLinux

    2. POL Helper plug-in