[p2p-research] FreeCAD open source design software

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  Sent to you by Ryan via Google Reader: FreeCAD open source design
software via MAKE Magazine by Gareth Branwyn on 10/13/09

I don't do CAD or 3D printing, but this software at least looks
promising from my armchair. It's an open source CAD/CAE app based on
OpenCasCade, QT, and Python. It offers features like macro recording,
the ability to run as a server and dynamically load application
extensions, and it runs on Windows, Linux, and Mac. One of the many
cool features it offers is 100% scriptable objects in Python:
Besides the standard object types such as annotations, meshes and parts
objects, FreeCAD also offers the amazing possibility to build 100%
python-scripted objects, called Python Features. Those objects will
behave exactly as any other FreeCAD object, can be saved in a document
and opened on any other installation of FreeCAD, since the python code
that defines the object is also saved in the document.
The project is still in alpha. The only official builds are in Windows
and 32-bit Debian Linux, but you can download (from their SourceForge
site) unofficial builds for AMD-based 64-bit Debian/Ubuntu, openSUSE.
and Intel Mac OS X.


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