On Sat, Oct 30, 2010 at 5:44 PM, kai-martin knaak <k...@familieknaak.de> 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.
Following that logic gEDA will be made extinct by kicad any day now. brlCAD is truely free while freecad is based on opencascade which has a quasi open source licence. _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user