On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 10:07:31AM +0200, Bas Wijnen wrote: > 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).
There is FreeCAD available, but I've not tried it. They try to achieve something like solidworks. They offer a python shell for drawing with script. There is qcad too, but only for 2d drawing. > (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. OpenCascade is a *free library* for CAD, that most free cad programs use. Regards, Lluís. _______________________________________________ Qi Hardware Discussion List Mail to list (members only): [email protected] Subscribe or Unsubscribe: http://lists.en.qi-hardware.com/mailman/listinfo/discussion
