Laszlo, excellent link to wildcat, thanks! Free mechanical tools are the weakest part (aside from free IC design tools), so this may take a while until it becomes a real production option but it's definitely on the radar. I will follow up on wildcat in a little bit. Best Regards, Wolfgang
On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 05:44:06PM +0200, Laszlo KREKACS wrote: > On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 1:52 PM, Wolfgang > Spraul<wolfg...@qi-hardware.com> wrote: > > For mechanical design, it's even harder. Werner thinks HeeksCAD is the best > > candidate, so Qi is looking into that now. Our mechanical engineer Tully > > (ex-OM as well) has found some serious problems with HeeksCAD already, that > > he says prohibit him from doing effective work to prepare for plastic > > injection. Oh well... > > So on the mechanical tool, same thing, we want something free, and we will > > follow Werner's leadership or ask him for advice if we are ahead of > > gta02-core > > in some area. > > I tried out HeeksCAD too. For me the showstopper is the complete lack of > true boolean operation. It simply "group" the objects together, but dont > really > union them (in mathematical correct way). > > The best candidate (the most serious open source software) would be > wildcat: http://wildcat-cad.blogspot.com/ > http://code.google.com/p/wildcat-cad/source/list > > However its author stopped working on it (unknown reason) from this > january. > If I were Qi Hardware I would seriously consider to donate to this project > or even hire the developer (wildcat cad). Opensource 3D cad tool needs > a kick to get starting. > > HeeksCAD is a "simple" frontend to opencascade.org. (I dont want to > be negative here.) > > I definietly propose you to get touch with the wildcat developer. > What is his plan (he is a phd student?), how you could help him to > continue the development, and finish the basic showstopper features. > Please consider to get contact with him. > > I do hope the best for you. The longer you stay in business the more > improvements gets the free software engineering tools (cad, kicad, etc), > what is a wonderful thing. > > Best regards, > Laszlo > > _______________________________________________ > Openmoko community mailing list > community@lists.openmoko.org > http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community _______________________________________________ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community