Breakable wrote: > Hi, > Anybody got any success for editing CAD files for the phone case? > Basically I am trying to get them open in brlcad (which seems to be the > best free CAD software ever), > without any success yet.
Well... someone seems to have been successful nine days ago!? http://brlcad.org/gallery/s/screenshots/iges-openmoko-conversion.png.html Or is there something I don't get about that screenshot? Regards, Andreas > I had some success in VariCad demo (proprietary) where parts of the > design are imported using STEP format, but it does not seem good enough, > as I see about 50% of the shapes usually. > IGES on the other hand seems like a total dissaster. > The only solution I currently see is buying or pirating the Pro/ENGINEER > to edit or convert them to brlcad .g format using the Pro/E to BRLCAD > converter plugin for Pro/ENGINEER from the brlcad suite. Buying or > pirating for this task is not the option I like. > Anybody that has a Pro/ENGINEER license can assist with that? > There is a nice description how to do it in > http://brlcad.org/w/images/6/66/Converting_Geometry.pdf > in section 4.9 page 27 of pdf. > After this is done properly, maybe the BRLCAD to DXF converter can be > used to > improve accessibility of design files for those that have AutoCad. > If this issue wont be resolved I don't believe a community effort to > build on the openness > of the device will ever succeed. > > Regards, > Ignas > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > Openmoko community mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community _______________________________________________ Openmoko community mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
