[AR] Re: Open Source Igniter / Rocket
- From: Steve Traugott <stevegt@xxxxxxx>
- To: arocket@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2015 16:15:53 -0800
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DMARC <dmarc-noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >>Sorry about Blender, I used solidworks and it has a nice helical sweep
> feature
> Thanks for the info. I need to get away from Blender but I’ve gotten used
> to it and can’t seem to kick the habit.
>
Not to digress (who, us?) but FreeCAD has gotten quite good in recent
years. It's pretty stable now (you'll still want to save often though) and
while it's not quite solidworks yet, I now think it's a safe bet that it
will eventually become a defacto standard -- I just wish they'd change the
name.
Otherwise, I'm still using OpenSCAD for most things, out of inertia. I had
high hopes for BRL-CAD a few years ago, but I think FreeCAD has taken that
space.
For anyone who likes scripting parts like in OpenSCAD, but wants to use the
more capable OpenCASCADE engine (FreeCAD's backend), there are a few
options. One is CadQuery, which uses FreeCAD as an IDE or can be run
standalone with no GUI, such as from a makefile.
Steve
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