Hello, On 5/17/05, Tracy R Reed <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Andrew P. Lentvorski, Jr. wrote: > > Since my last message got such a resounding response: > > > > Courtesy of the US Army! > > > > http://brlcad.org/ > > > > Pretty screenshots here (running in X11 on OS X): > > http://sourceforge.net/project/screenshots.php?group_id=105292 > > BRLcad has been around for a long time. But I have never run into anyone > using it. It seems to be lingering as one of the most complete but least > used open source CAD systems.
Well to be anally-technical, it was just recently Open Sourced(last January). Before it had some really weird govt' issued proprietary license(iirc, it was literally something like ,~if you use this product, you can't compete w/ us). Also, of note, the main devloper at one time was Michael Muuss, the inventor of ping. > ... Unfortunately Autocad seems to have a > stranglehold on the CAD market. Everyone I have talked to said if it > can't speak Autocad it can't be used. I have never used BRL-CAD(the license always scared me), but the basic AutoCAD 2D files (I forget what they are called now) are very basic and understood. It was easy to write a viewer for them. And AutoCAD 3D wasn't really a 3D modeller, at least in the sense as any other Geometric modeler was. ProE and SolidWorks weren't able to do anything w/ AutoCAD files either. Steve -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
