Alibre does look interesting and only $200 for Hobby License from the website. One major hit for me and probably most on this email list is it is windows only `,( For me that is a show stopper, I only have windows on laptops that people give me. But for others, it may be a good option. Certainly if you are serious about creating alot of parts quickly it may be a good option.
Thanks for the tip. It's amazing how this stuff has grown. To get a seat of Solid Works back in the 90's was like $10k if you include hardware. Now, A decent Computer for $500 and $200 license and you can do some pretty amazing stuff. John Vaughters On Tuesday, April 14, 2020, 12:00:05 PM EDT, John Wettroth <[email protected]> wrote: Alibre is a pretty worthy contender in this area. It does most of what Solidworks does for about $100 (Hobby Version). -----Original Message----- From: TriEmbed [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of John Vaughters via TriEmbed Sent: Tuesday, April 14, 2020 11:36 AM To: Jeffrey Crews Cc: TriEmbed Subject: Re: [TriEmbed] Looking for recommendation 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 _______________________________________________ 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
