Board repost: launch of nanoCAD free 3.5 / 3.7 under Linux using Wine / Nanosoft's blog

Usually we don’t repost other people's posts, but this is an exception to the rule ...


We are so often asked whether nanoCAD will work under Linux, that we automatically have maximum interest in this message on the forum :-) Therefore, when a message from a user with a nickname appeared on the forum PITRider with practical tips on how to run nanoCAD under Linux, we decided to share it as-is with the maximum number of readers.

PITRider writes:
“To work in nanoCAD 3.5 or 3.7 under WINE, the following is required:

1. WINE version 1.4.1 (stable) - it works crookedly under 1.5 (broken icons and broken file dialogs!)
2. WINE win32 bottle architecture - relevant for x86_64 OS. To create such a bottle, you need to do it once:WINEARCH=win32 winecfg
3. Install through winetricks dotnet35 (or dotnet35sp1), if with your hands - you will also need to remove mono from the registry ... winetricks does it yourself
4. Install ODBC drivers - jet40 mdac28

My sequence of actions in 2 lines: As a result, we have a working scriber, without support for COM and scripts (JS, VB). ” Discussion here: forum.nanocad.ru/index.php?showtopic=4718&view=findpost&p=19091 PS: in the same thread we discuss why we have not released nanoCAD under Linux with official support ...
WINEARCH=win32 WINEPREFIX=/path/to/wine winetricks -q dotnet35sp1 jet40 mdac28
WINEPREFIX=/path/to/wine wine /path/to/NC37.exe