[TriEmbed] Looking for recommendation

[John Wettroth]

Good point on Alibre Atom 3d, my only solution to this mess is to run a
win10 machine natively with VM's for other OS's.  I spend very little time
in W10.  I run a lot of older tools in Windows XP for Embedded Development
and special hardware that never made it to Win10

Also, while the list price for hobby is $200, its often discounted heavily.
I got it for $99 late last year, and there is a 40% off deal running now-
making it $119.40.  I am an old solidworks guy and it does most of what I
used in SW in a pretty familiar way.

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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


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