[LAD] [OT] vector drawing software

[Thomas Vecchione]

3D Cad tools unfortuanatly I haven't found any I particularly like among the
open source projects.  Personally I am using QCad for 2D and Sketchup for
3D.  I use Blender for organic modleing and rendering though.

           Seablade

On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 6:17 PM, nescivi <nescivi at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hiho,
>
> On Thursday 07 August 2008 14:18:39 Thorsten Wilms wrote:
> > On Thu, 2008-08-07 at 14:03 -0400, nescivi wrote:
> > > At first sight it seems more geared to 3D modelling for animation
> > > graphics, rather than for making realworld objects.
> > > I need to model some things in order to "print" them on a rapid
> > > prototyping machine...
> > > Is Blender a suitable candidate for that?
> >
> > AFAIK rapid prototyping machines work with triangle meshes, so using a
> > polygon modeler is no problem. It's even the way to go for organic
> > shapes like action figures. There's a RP startup that works with Blender
> > a lot.
>
> Hmm.. ok. that sounds interesting.
> I don't want to make action figures so much, but part of my interest is
> organic shapes...
>
> > However, for precise geometrical shapes, Blender is the wrong tool. It
> > can be done to some degree, but it is just painful compared to a decent
> > CAD tool.
>
> Do you know any decent open source CAD tools?
> I haven't yet found one I am completely content with....
>
> sincerely,
> Marije
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