AutoCAD

What works

Did a typ. install. Copied dlls from cd to acad folder, as has been suggested here. Also copied fonts as suggested here. Added msvcrt to overrides. 2d and 3d and render work well. Lisp and vlisp seems to work fine. Had some issues getting Express tools working, but after installing expresstools version 1.9 and a little trial and error loading the menu, the express tools seem to work. To customize menus it was a bit tricky to move things about. Printing and print preview work well. Wblock and inserting blocks work fine. Xrefs and images work. F2 works to bring up the text window. TaIt seems very speedy as well.

What does not

Not working is VBA and help no big surprise there. Vlisp and autolisp seem to work fine. There are pdfs for the help files I need. Some of the sample drawings will not open and cause acad to crash. I don't know why just yet. But you can use partial open. I think it has something to do with their layouts and paper space. The plot manager and styles from the file menu don't seem to work at all, tho wine was nice enough to pass my installed printers to acad, and I had no problem configuring their properties or printing.

Some dialog list boxes don't work as expected, for example in the material lib. you can select textures but you can't move back up the list once you have clicked on one. In the support file dialog I had to manually type paths in some cases. Speaking of that, I noted that there is an issue with acad getting confused with paths because linux treats lower and upper case names diff. For example at one point I had a c:/program files/acad2000/Express and c:/program files/acad2000/EXPRESS. Express was empty. Make sure to check out support file paths. Another oddity is that the properties dialog goes blank when an entity is selected. Matching properties seemed to work, other wise I had to use chprop.

Workarounds

What was not tested

Design center. Tablet/digitizer. Some of the wizards. A lot more I'm sure. However everything I need seems to work pretty well.

Hardware tested

Graphics:

• GPU:
• Driver:

Additional Comments

I only rated it as silver because of all the extra work I had to go to get it working well after the install and getting the express tools setup. I'd say it's darn close to gold tho. Some might even think higher.

­by NSLW on (March 26th 2009)

Installing

    1. Use recent version of Wine(tested on Wine-1.3.9)

    2. Download winetricks by following command

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

    3. Install required components by following command

sh winetricks corefonts mdac25 tahoma win2k

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

    4. Change Screen Resolution in Wine configuration by typing

winecfg

    Then go to Graphics tab and change Screen Resolution from 96 to 108

     (workaround given by Sheaff)
    5. 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 and cleanest method because script will install AutoCAD with service packs in separate prefix automatically. To do so you'll need:

    1. PlayOnLinux