On 1/16/07, Sachin G Nambiar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Initial impressions:
The interface lacks polish. Digging deeper, i found that you require to
actually remember loads of small commands to do anything. So many
commands. Almost everything is done from the command line. That being said
it's not really hard. Infact the pdf documentation makes things pretty
easy. It uses vi and gives you the option for emacs. It stores all files
ina databse which has to be defined in advance. Everthing else(shapes
textures etc.) goes directly in real time into this file.
And with my limited(read zero) knowledge of any CAD software, i'll say
this thing works really well. Based on the documentation and a few
instances of "modern art" by yours truly using the documentation; i'll say
this thing can really do stuff. You can create your own custom primitive
shapes. Using the documentation i could build a radio, cone and wrap it
with shiny stuff etc. But everything through the command line.
An engineer who is into some serious drawing will probably like the
cli interface if they provide perfect control on the primitives.
I don't use cad however, from my experience cad software soon get into
cli for data input. What would be important would be macros and
scripting support.
Oh and the *real* e-engineer would use c and open-gl for his
presentations :D (just kidding)
funny:
Very military, has "Dismiss" for cancel.
Nice review ! liked the funny bit :)
regards
C
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