[Gmsh] Gmsh & OpenCascade

[William Hunter]

On 18/10/06, Ingo Reinhold <ingo at pdx.edu> wrote:
> >
> > Also, does anyone know of a stable and good open source or moderately
> > priced CAD (parametric 3D with good 2D capabilities) application for
> > Linux. It would be great if one day I can do all my work on a Linux or
> > OS X system...
>
> The only thing I can think of is qcad for mac osx. It's only 2d but
> quite easy to handle. You may wanna check the trial on http://
> www.ribbonsoft.com/qcad.html

Yes, that's great (I've used it), but I'm used to SolidWorks and Solid
Edge for modelling, and it doesn't seem as though there's something
similar for Linux. There is ofcourse UGS NX 4 (very, very powerful and
just as expensive), VariCAD (not parametric, but very capable) and
PTC's Pro/Engineer (also expensive). I'm hoping the folks at VX will
release their software for Linux soon. The CAD market /might/ be
shaken a bit in future since Microsoft (as I understand) has decided
to drop OpenGL for their own proprietary DirectX API (not surprising).
CAD vendors will probably have to follow suite...

>
> Regards,
>
> Ingo
>