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We have to use Windows at work for our high end CAD. There's no FOSS alternative.
I use Linux at home. Which is basically a, less crap, copy of Windows. But is still missing important stuff.
No offense, but some folks apparently felt the need to downvote you because modern GNU/Linux is a copy of Windows, which is a copy of Macintosh, which is a copy of Xerox Alto.
GNU/Linux is missing important stuff because manufacturers only pay someone to write drivers for Windows and sometimes Mac, because those are the dominant "normal user" OSes, because those are the OSes that manufacturers support...
sure. those are reasons it's missing some stuff. But I was referring to other important things also missing from Windows. Which is what Linux seems to follow. Linux has a great opportunity to break away, and come up with something really good. But sadly, there will be reasons not to, I suspect.
For 3D CAD I don't think there is a good alternative to Solidworks or Autodesk ones but for my company uses BricsCAD which is available on linux (debian/ubuntu) and is almost as good as AutoCAD, it's basically a copy so skills are quite transferable and it is cheaper also.
I see it as the Da Vinci Resolve of 2D CAD
Great. But AutoCAD and Solidworks are not high end CAD. Acceptable for some I guess. But we need serious CAD.
I thought AutoCAD was pretty much the industry standard for CAD unless something changed.
AutoCAD might be widely used at the lower end, where many just create a sketch and extrude it. But that is no good for car or aircraft design, where you need high end smooth shape commands, and high productivity workflows.