X-Authentication-Warning: delorie.com: mail set sender to geda-user-bounces using -f X-Recipient: geda-user AT delorie DOT com DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type; bh=AgxYOQ9jFqvxANqFKf3D2BzHXgEOHd0SQ2U1ICXTw1k=; b=zmX8PFCLU5P1i6m/EIJUil/ZNdK6Hj3klMPuWhNR7EzxriBdR78y1m8hnyv49vfQGr FXhbQKHc/xoZJkW57vt94K/84AhsLWQuAVfuAWvZYS9byDJaM12w8GZJUbL/TU8CCKPj tocZXQG3OOyEwPwrpbFXVW5Lq8fmi++PLE1+iOGRFjmb6mMxcB2K5KpOO0kItDEQHvbU 7vXnVfTKQ9YEfxJbcrQIx5tAnesidsFpSr4BiJVR2umdlHhAju3QMLxCMRp/x31m+CUx H2Up6gzxASiBvpwPlo6ilLFknOIYcsQxZHrTpqx+4g/YKFnmrOE/28noTkMp6wOee1Nb hhPQ== MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.66.27.44 with SMTP id q12mr22073772pag.138.1371950000983; Sat, 22 Jun 2013 18:13:20 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: <51B6CDB6 DOT 1010909 AT estechnical DOT co DOT uk> <51B6DB0E DOT 8000108 AT prochac DOT sk> <51BBA5E7 DOT 4040006 AT prochac DOT sk> <1371329763 DOT 11314 DOT 10 DOT camel AT pcjc2lap> <4DFFE27A-47A1-41DB-98CC-490E1AB6085A AT jump-ing DOT de> <20130617012721 DOT 01e56f87 AT akka> <51C48E65 DOT 10508 AT prochac DOT sk> <51C5BC66 DOT 6050308 AT ecosensory DOT com> <6C92EC8D-2A12-4E1B-8C08-C2812F4DBAD3 AT jump-ing DOT de> Date: Sat, 22 Jun 2013 21:13:20 -0400 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [geda-user] 3D modelling and gEDA From: Evan Foss To: geda-user AT delorie DOT com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Reply-To: geda-user AT delorie DOT com Errors-To: nobody AT delorie DOT com X-Mailing-List: geda-user AT delorie DOT com X-Unsubscribes-To: listserv AT delorie DOT com Precedence: bulk We were looking for an interface to 3D formats so that PCB could have 3D export. Using OpenNURBS does not require you to use Rhino. This thread is not about what 3D cad *you* choose to draft your individual component models in. On Sat, Jun 22, 2013 at 8:48 PM, Markus Hitter wrote: > > Am 22.06.2013 um 23:42 schrieb Evan Foss: > >> What about the following is not compatible with GPL/LGPL? >> ... >> http://www.opennurbs.org/docs.htm > > > This isn't the question. At least not the question I'm talking about. > > Maybe I didn't look deep enough into the matter, but to me it looks like > openNURBS isn't a CAD application, but a geometry library/toolkit. It's not > on a level comparable to FreeCAD, but to OpenCascade. And the editor for > openNURBS data, until somebody writes another one, is Rhino. I can't find > any hint openNURBS would allow to export IGES, STEP, STL or some other data > format useful in other applications, so using this toolkit means one is > clamped to a single commercial application. > > > > Markus > > - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - > Dipl. Ing. (FH) Markus Hitter > http://www.jump-ing.de/ > > > > > -- Home http://evanfoss.googlepages.com/ Work http://forge.abcd.harvard.edu/gf/project/epl_engineering/wiki/