Yes BRL-CAD has been around a very long time. Pretty much all the open source CAD solutions you will find clunky. For people that write software, the scripting 3-D modeling is a reasonable solution. The graphic interfaces are lacking for sure. It's been many many years since I looked at BRL-CAD. It reminded me of the 3-D modeling libraries I learned in college, but that is all I remember. It's like anything though, spend about 20 hours and you can probably be proficient in any of them.
John Vaughters On Tuesday, April 14, 2020, 09:57:38 AM EDT, Jeffrey Crews <[email protected]> wrote: 2 notes: for some reason, the latest version of FreeCAD threw some weird errors with Ubuntu 19.10. Specifically the pulldown menus were BLANK and the various suggested fixes didnt work. I used the prior version (I want to say... 17?) and it was fine. Also there is another OS CAD program called BRL-CAD which I believe uses the same engine as FreeCAD. It was made by the Army's Ballistic Research Laboratories. I've tried it, it certainly has a different interface, but it's still CSG modeling. On Tue, Apr 14, 2020, 09:49 John Vaughters via TriEmbed <[email protected]> wrote: > Oh, I would say many open source solutions have effectively put alot of > software out of business or severely reduced the cost of many. But CAD is > just an example where highly specialized software is just hard to create, and > the Masters of that Universe continue to get paid by big money, so it is a > hard nut to crack when the best developers in that market are getting paid > very well. It's the same with PCB software, highly specialized solution. Sure > you can get some damn good software for free, but is it really as good as the > paid versions? Not really. > > Not that it matters, the Open Source versions are VERY useful. Especially for > Hackers like all of us. > > `,~) > > John Vaughters > > > > > > > On Tuesday, April 14, 2020, 09:14:23 AM EDT, Pete Soper via TriEmbed > <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > Hey, Linux caught up with Solaris in many regards, so it isn't always > the case that open source is always second class. > > :-) :-) :-) > > -Pete > > On 4/14/20 8:48 AM, John Vaughters via TriEmbed wrote: >> Jeff, >> >> You are going to be disappointed with FreeCAD. Open Source CAD has not and >> probably will never catch up to paid versions. But for those on a budget and >> has time, open source is still pretty good and useful. >> >> John Vaughters >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > Triangle, NC Embedded Computing mailing list > > To post message: [email protected] > List info: http://mail.triembed.org/mailman/listinfo/triembed_triembed.org > TriEmbed web site: http://TriEmbed.org > To unsubscribe, click link and send a blank message: > mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe > > > _______________________________________________ > Triangle, NC Embedded Computing mailing list > > To post message: [email protected] > List info: http://mail.triembed.org/mailman/listinfo/triembed_triembed.org > TriEmbed web site: http://TriEmbed.org > To unsubscribe, click link and send a blank message: > mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe > > _______________________________________________ Triangle, NC Embedded Computing mailing list To post message: [email protected] List info: http://mail.triembed.org/mailman/listinfo/triembed_triembed.org TriEmbed web site: http://TriEmbed.org To unsubscribe, click link and send a blank message: mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe
