Jon Phillips schreef op wo 24-08-2011 om 13:22 [+0800]: > What would be the closest free software equivalents to Autocad and > solidworks, the solid modeller?
Many people with Repraps and Makerbots use OpenSCAD, which is more like Povray than Autocad (because you need to write your model as text, not with point-and-click), but that's a feature, not a bug. ;-) However, it isn't in Debian yet due to some library dependency issues (nothing license-related). On http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_CAD_editors_for_architecture,_engineering_and_construction_%28AEC%29 is a long list of programs, and there are very few with a free license: BRL-CAD FreeCAD SALOME (OpenSCAD isn't even in the list, because it's a compiler, not an editor) The OpenSCAD page additionally mentions OpenCASCADE. No idea what that is. I have heard people say there is no good free alternative to solidworks. So all the above may be of low quality. Finally, I know many people also use blender, which doesn't know about solidness, but has faces with a direction and can export STL files with computed solidness. They work fine for printing, however they don't contain colour (which is a downside if you have a colour printer). Thanks, Bas _______________________________________________ Qi Hardware Discussion List Mail to list (members only): [email protected] Subscribe or Unsubscribe: http://lists.en.qi-hardware.com/mailman/listinfo/discussion
