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Pro/Engineer Coming to Linux

Posted by chrisd on from the catia-we're-coming-for-you dept.

PotatoHead writes " Parametric Technologies Corporation (PTC) announced in a recent press release, a Linux port of their flagship modeling product Pro Engineer. HP will be the preferred partner for the Linux platform release. This is pretty big news for the engineering and product design crowd folks. There must be some fairly credible requests coming in for this to happen."

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  1. damn! it's payware!! by Wakko+Warner · · Score: 4, Funny

    Well, I certainly won't be using it, then!

    I can see the "Ask Slashdot" now: I manage a large aerospace machine shop and I'd like to run my shop on Linux. Is there an open-source 3D CAD/CAM program that will create NC programs that will properly control my 5-axis milling machines, lathes, and Okuma grinders? I hope to convince my managers this is a good idea!

    - A.P.

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