On Sun, 2010-10-31 at 00:44 +0200, kai-martin knaak wrote: > Evan Foss wrote: > > > I may have missed it but has anyone suggested the brlcad format. It > > might be better than freecad in that it has export/import from a lot > > of other formats already written. > > It might be worse in that its user interface is prohibitively non- > intuitive. I looked at the application a few years ago, when I was in > need for a mechanical CAD application. Even the most simple operations > required a number of complex steps. There is a whole chapter in the > manual on how to move a component. The user base of brlCAD is marginal > and will probably shrink even more, as more intuitive open source CAD > applications will become a viable alternative. >
That may be true, but I am not really happy with the wording. Some kids may be tempted to do something like sed -i -e 's/brlCAD/gEDA-PCB/' _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user