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#1 2005-01-08 8:26 pm
- Gary Patterson
- Registered: 2000-09-19
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BRL-CAD - Solid Modeller from US Army is Open Sourced
Slashdot reports that BRL-CAD, a high-end solid modelling package developed for the US army over the course of 20 years, is now open sourced. One of the platforms (and the one in the screenshots on Sourceforge) is OS X.
Slashdot discussion
BRL-CAD homepage
Screenshots
Looks like very good news to me. Downloading the source right now, and will build this puppy later today.
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#3 2005-01-08 10:35 pm
- sosumi
- numbery
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Re: BRL-CAD - Solid Modeller from US Army is Open Sourced
AutoDesk has taken informal polls about a demand for an OS X version of AutoCAD. According to some Apple Store employee, AutoDesk is shuffling their feet because Apple won't give them any monetary inspiration to start the work. Plus, AutoDesk is a bunch of whores who update their software way too damn much.
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#4 2005-01-09 1:21 am
- Greywolf
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Re: BRL-CAD - Solid Modeller from US Army is Open Sourced
Interesting.
I prefer lightwave's simpler interphase to a CAD program though. I know that CAD programs are pretty good when it comes to precise measurements and architectural type models.
"After all, it's not that awful, in Italy for thirty years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder, bloodshed - they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, and the Renaissance. In Switzerland they had brotherly love, five hundred years of democracy and peace, and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock."
-Graham Greene, The Third Man
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#5 2005-01-09 2:42 am
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Re: BRL-CAD - Solid Modeller from US Army is Open Sourced
does it have load simulation?
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#6 2005-01-09 12:35 pm
- avkills
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Re: BRL-CAD - Solid Modeller from US Army is Open Sourced
Interesting.
I prefer lightwave's simpler interphase to a CAD program though. I know that CAD programs are pretty good when it comes to precise measurements and architectural type models.
Lightwave has a great Modeler in my opinion, even if you do have to be precise, it is possible in LW. You can even change to English, Metric and LW standard(which is pretty much metric) measurements.
It is nice to see some good, free software though. 
I've seen AutoDesk booths at shows before and I harass them every single time about a OS X version of AutoCAD. 
-mark
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#7 2005-01-09 12:37 pm
- avkills
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Re: BRL-CAD - Solid Modeller from US Army is Open Sourced
does it have load simulation?
No it does not, LW is strictly a entertainment driven software package. It does, however, have soft and solid body dynamics simulation built in, which is pretty cool.
-mark
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#8 2005-01-09 4:28 pm
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Re: BRL-CAD - Solid Modeller from US Army is Open Sourced
I meant the army program, but that is neat about lightwave
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#9 2005-01-09 8:44 pm
Re: BRL-CAD - Solid Modeller from US Army is Open Sourced
"Overall, the results are pretty clear: Mac users might not actually be smarter than PC users, but they certainly use better English and a larger vocabulary to express more complex thinking."
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