Suggesting sketchup has served a very useful purpose - you have enlightened me and any body lerking on the list to a couple of amazing open source projects that look like they will take up a lot of my time over the next few months. - I may have a go at building the Reprap as it looks like it will be very useful for another project that I'm in the early stages of.
Maurice -----Original Message----- From: Vik Olliver [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, 7 March 2008 9:26 p.m. To: linux-users@it.canterbury.ac.nz Subject: RE: OSS for Macintosh On Fri, 2008-03-07 at 21:13 +1300, Maurice Butler wrote: > I have yet to find open source cad program that actual works - lots > of half > bake demos that you can not save work with, or just not usable. It is > a > school and with school budgets so a free alternative is a start. ArtOfIllusion http://artofillusion.org is Open Source, cross-platform, has render support, plugins and a most excellent development team (no, not me). The lead developer is a Mac user. The user interface is amazingly intuitive and it forms real 3D solids - it even has a Euler verifier to make sure the object mesh is a valid 3D construct. We use it to design RepRap components in the RepRap Project, which we then print on the Open Source 3D printer http://reprap.org Not only do you get an Open Source CAD program, you also get an Open Source CAM device! GCode support for the RepRap GUI is now in alpha, so support for existing 3D fabrication hardware is not too far down the line. Vik :v)
