> When it comes to actual modelling, if you just remember that Blender is > not a CAD-program, then you'll be fine. Modelling tools are excellent and > development cycle is furious.
because you mentioned cad: http://www.caelinux.com/ CAElinux 2007 is now officially released This first stable release of CAELinux is now officially released: Thanks to the new PCLinuxOS 2007 distribution base and the unique Salome_Meca 2007 FEA suite, CAELinux 2007 represents a jump in stability and ease of use, and we hope that you will enjoy it. As usual, this release is available either as a installable liveDVD distribtion or under Windows with our preconfigured VMWare version The features / programs included in CAELinux 2007 distribution are the following: * LiveDVD distribution based on PClinuxOS 2007 (updated) * Runs directly from the DVD without any installation * Optional installation to hard disk in 3 easy steps * Dedicated to CAE and more specifically to finite element simulation * Includes the new integrated 3D pre-/ post / FE solver package SALOME_MECA 2007 (GPL, developped by EDF, France) which represents the fusion of Salome v3.2.6 GUI and Code-Aster v9.1 finite element solver (updated, GPL) * Offers a complete solution for CFD with OpenFOAM 1.4 , Gerris, Code-Saturne and Openflower solvers * Contains several 2D & 3D CAD/pre/post packages: Paraview, Netgen, Tetgen, GMSH v2 (updated), Salome v.3.2.6 & QCad * Includes other simulation softwares for multiphysics simulation: Elmer v5, Calculix v1.7 (updated), Tochnog, Impact (updated), MBDyn * Offers several scientific tools like GNU Octave + Forge, R & Rkward, Scilab, wxMaxima and a full set of developpement tools / compilers. New: CAELinux has been selected by EDF to be part of the official distributors of SALOME-MECA. To use SALOME-MECA on your own Linux distribution, you can now download the stand-alone SALOME-MECA package from our download section. is anyone using it and tried to import models into osg? kind regards _______________________________________________ osg-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openscenegraph.org/listinfo.cgi/osg-users-openscenegraph.org
