19 Feb
2017
19 Feb
'17
2:28 p.m.
On Feb 19, 2017, at 5:22 PM, Mark J. Blair <nf6x at
nf6x.net> wrote:
... and I only grudgingly use Fusion 360 because there's no viable 3D CAD/CAM
competition that I know of in its very low price range.
A while ago I went looking for 3D CAD again, after giving up on TurboCAD in disgust.
Found FreeCAD (https://www.freecadweb.org). Works on Mac, Windows, Linux. It's a
computational solid geometry program. One of the interesting features is a Python API;
the model I created (Rolf Nelson's spaceship) is 5000 lines of Python. It also has a
GUI, of course; I went the Python approach because it let me construct stuff numerically
with ease. It also let me customize the export machinery for POVray output.
paul