[TriEmbed] Looking for recommendation

[John Vaughters]

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 <jwet at mindspring.com> wrote: 





Alibre is a pretty worthy contender in this area.  It does most of what
Solidworks does for about $100 (Hobby Version). 

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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