[Bf-committers] Fwd: CAD project
Ton Roosendaal
ton at blender.org
Wed Mar 23 12:41:48 CET 2005
Hi all,
Just FYI.
Click here, http://staff.bath.ac.uk/ensab/replicator/ideas.html , or
read full text below.
For the CAD lovers... :)
-Ton-
Begin forwarded message:
> From: "Goles, Ed"
> Date: 22 March, 2005 16:22:06 GMT+01:00
> To: "'foundation at blender.org'" <foundation at blender.org>
> Subject:
>
> Dear Mam/Sir,
> I'm a mechanical draughtsperson and use Blender to animate some of the
> parts that I draw. I came across this article about a marvelous new
> machine and the owner is looking for a Cad package to use. I think
> with development of Blender Cad, it could be a great fit.
>
> Attached below is the web site and a section of the article requesting
> ideas for software.
>
>
> http://www.bath.ac.uk/pr/releases/replicating-machines.htm
>
> For more details see the project's web pages
> http://staff.bath.ac.uk/ensab/replicator/ideas.html
>
>
> " One thing we need is an open-source 3D CAD system that can output
> OpenRP format or STL files; we'd give it away with the machine. Our
> own Svlis geometric modeller is too experimental (i.e. fancy, but
> buggy...), so we're looking at BRL-CAD, which is a robust geometry
> engine. But its user-interface needs a lot of work... Another
> posibility is VTK (thanks to Deelip Menezes of the OpenRP project for
> the suggestion).
>
> We probably don't need anything with very complicated geometry (we're
> unlikely to need NURBS surfaces, for example). We could probably
> manage with just planes, spheres, cylinders, cones, helices, and tori.
> Those, together with sketch-and-extrude and sketch-and-revolve
> functions, and the ordinary CSG operators should just about do.
>
> We might also look at the various Povray scene editors that there are
> out there. One piece of software (thanks to Vik Olliver for the
> suggestion) is Art of Illusion; we'll look into this.
>
> Click here if you have another solution to our CAD problem. "
>
>
>
> Thanks
> Ed Goles
> Reliability Tech.
> Bath, Ontario, Canada
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