[Gmsh] Gmsh & OpenCascade

[billy at dem.uminho.pt]

Me too. If you find one, please tell me!!

OpenCASCADE seems a great kernel and the projects that use it may be an
alternative to Solidworks or Solidedge but this will take some time (years?). 

It seems that Microsoft will not drop OpenGL completely but degrade its
performance so people will stop using it (typical). Most CAD systems can switch
between Direct3D and OpenGL so maybe they will still maintain OpenGL to ensure
portability (I hope)...  



Quoting William Hunter <willemjagter at gmail.com>:

> 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
> >
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