Pardon. Works on a free OS? No. Hidden costs are still costs.
Granted, it is easy to upload to Google Earth from there, but ... So I'm not just a nay-sayer here is some hopefully helpful insights. BlenderCAD is what I've been experimenting with lately (cross-platform, free, and does some _really_ nice exteriors/animations, and, of course, ties in with Blender) Of the products I've (had to) use over time ... ARES Commander very much like AutoCAD ARCAD 3D ... photorealistic rendering in 3-D. BRL-CAD ... milspec design CADOO.o ... CAD in OpenOffice (LibreOffice) nowhere near as functional as I would like, but ... cool! CAD as part of a standard set of office functionality tools! elcad (can't find it anymore) scripted design emacs+svg ... well ... not really cad, but I've done it, and it (basically) works. freeCAD ... really good starter program, for learning good CAD habits. ( http://askoh.com/freecad/ ) which is different from: FreeCAD which is a much slicker and compute-heavy, but still multi-platform ( http://free-cad.sf.net/ ) K-3D ... more of a modeler than a CAD system, but ... still interesting. LeoCAD ... LEGOs! *grin* LibreCAD (2D only) extensively cross-platform, being in QT. PythonCAD ... still in it's infancy. A project worth developing, I think ... but not for me to do. In a limited way, I've used EAGLE for PCB board design (electronics CAD) And I've heard some good things about CADEMIA and OCTREE so that's probably my next area of experimentation. OpenSCAD is currently being raved about by my 3-D printing friends, so that might also be an interesting way to go. 3-D printing of hexayurt models might be quite interesting ... If you really want to sink time into learning a system, probably VARKON is a much better choice than Sketchup. Also, in my toolbox is AutoTrace, one of the best ways of taking a bitmap picture, and making it a vector graphics image, for those 3D printers, SVG editing in emacs, laser cutters, cnc mills, etc. and Z88 Aurora, which is used for stresses, node-forces, and displacement calculations. Not trivial to use. I hope this helps, more than it detracts. Percy On Sun, 2012-09-02 at 15:21 -0700, KK wrote: > Sketchup. > Free. > Worldwide. > Awesome. > > Truth is self-evident. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "hexayurt" group. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msg/hexayurt/-/D3UEbqzeT3YJ. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to hexayurt > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/hexayurt?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "hexayurt" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/hexayurt?hl=en.
