Re: [Emc-users] 3D Software for Linux

2014-07-31 Thread Alexander Rössler
2014-07-30 22:35 GMT+02:00 Bruce Layne linux...@thinkingdevices.com: I installed Inkscape, which apparently has some of the artistic features in the software that was promoted via spam. Inkscape is a vector graphics program, sort of the open source version of CorelDraw. I haven't used

[Emc-users] 3D Software for Linux

2014-07-30 Thread andy pugh
I was just spammed by a company trying to sell this: http://sites.fastspring.com/smithmicro/product/22145?utm_source=Siloutm_medium=Emailutm_campaign=Silohq_e=elhq_m=1581898hq_l=5hq_v=203da0ef8a I have no idea if it is any good, but it _does_ claim to run on Linux and the price is not

Re: [Emc-users] 3D Software for Linux

2014-07-30 Thread Lester Caine
On 30/07/14 19:26, andy pugh wrote: I was just spammed by a company trying to sell this: http://sites.fastspring.com/smithmicro/product/22145?utm_source=Siloutm_medium=Emailutm_campaign=Silohq_e=elhq_m=1581898hq_l=5hq_v=203da0ef8a I have no idea if it is any good, but it _does_ claim to run

Re: [Emc-users] 3D Software for Linux

2014-07-30 Thread John Alexander Stewart
Andy - do you want a CAD program, or something to create beautiful characters to put into your next 3D game, or test your Renderman shader programming skills, or... How about BRL-CAD, OpenSCAD, SolveSpace, or even the old 2D QCad? Just my 0.02c, from attending too many SIGGRAPH conferences...

Re: [Emc-users] 3D Software for Linux

2014-07-30 Thread Sebastian Kuzminsky
On 7/30/14 12:26 PM, andy pugh wrote: I was just spammed by a company trying to sell this: http://sites.fastspring.com/smithmicro/product/22145?utm_source=Siloutm_medium=Emailutm_campaign=Silohq_e=elhq_m=1581898hq_l=5hq_v=203da0ef8a I have no idea if it is any good, but it _does_ claim to run

Re: [Emc-users] 3D Software for Linux

2014-07-30 Thread Andy Pugh
On 30 Jul 2014, at 21:54, Sebastian Kuzminsky s...@highlab.com wrote: I'm pretty happy with FreeCAD. It works and the price is even less unreasonable. I am happy with Autodesk Inventor, which costs me the same as FreeCAD. But I thought that Silo looked like it might be good for 3D

Re: [Emc-users] 3D Software for Linux

2014-07-30 Thread Pete Matos
Agreed...Freecad is pretty good and getting better with each update. I have been using it for 3d rendering for a little while now. When I first started using it it was crash city but now it hardly ever crashes and the more I understand how it works the better it seems to work for me in that

Re: [Emc-users] 3D Software for Linux

2014-07-30 Thread Bruce Layne
I installed Inkscape, which apparently has some of the artistic features in the software that was promoted via spam. Inkscape is a vector graphics program, sort of the open source version of CorelDraw. I haven't used Inkscape yet, because I'm not an animator or artist, but I installed it in

Re: [Emc-users] 3D Software for Linux

2014-07-30 Thread dave
On Wed, 2014-07-30 at 16:03 -0400, Pete Matos wrote: Agreed...Freecad is pretty good and getting better with each update. I have been using it for 3d rendering for a little while now. When I first started using it it was crash city but now it hardly ever crashes and the more I understand how

Re: [Emc-users] 3D Software for Linux

2014-07-30 Thread Andy Pugh
On 30 Jul 2014, at 22:35, Bruce Layne linux...@thinkingdevices.com wrote: LinuxCNC will control the laser, of course, but it's not good at raster engraving. It'll sort of do it, but it's my impression that it's a bit of a double clutch and fuss at it operation. G-code is a bad fit to

Re: [Emc-users] 3D Software for Linux

2014-07-30 Thread Marcus Bowman
Interesting. I wonder how it compares with Blender? I suspect SILO may allow more precise input of co-ordinates, but I'm not sure. Marcus On 30 Jul 2014, at 19:26, andy pugh wrote: I was just spammed by a company trying to sell this:

Re: [Emc-users] 3D Software for Linux

2014-07-30 Thread dave
On Wed, 2014-07-30 at 16:03 -0400, Pete Matos wrote: Agreed...Freecad is pretty good and getting better with each update. I have been using it for 3d rendering for a little while now. When I first started using it it was crash city but now it hardly ever crashes and the more I understand how