[TriEmbed] Looking for recommendation

[John Vaughters]

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 <cruzetti at gmail.com> 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 <triembed at triembed.org> 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. 
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> Not that it matters, the Open Source versions are VERY useful. Especially for Hackers like all of us. 
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> On Tuesday, April 14, 2020, 09:14:23 AM EDT, Pete Soper via TriEmbed <triembed at triembed.org> wrote: 
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> Hey, Linux caught up with Solaris in many regards, so it isn't always 
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> On 4/14/20 8:48 AM, John Vaughters via TriEmbed wrote:
>> Jeff,
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>> 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.
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>> John Vaughters
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