Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] Mac CAD

We (the Mac users) are the ones laughing, right?
I assume you mean OS X.

AC3D http://www.ac3d.org
Not free, but cheap. Good interface. Kind of lacking in the snaps
department
(snap to intersection, snap to center, etc.) unless I missed something.

BRLCAD http://sourceforge.net/projects/brlcad/
Free. Developed by the US military. Very stable, since it's been around
since 1979.
Not very friendly, also because it's been around since 1979.

Varkon might run, can't remember
http://www.tech.oru.se/cad/varkon/download.htm
Free. A parametric modeler. I.e. in the bicycle example, you tell the
wheel how many spokes
it should have. Lots of work to get to that point, though.

Blender http://www.blender3d.com/cms/Home.2.0.html
Free. Nice modeler. Meant for games, animation, and the like, but also
can
be used for "serious" work.

Don't forget AppleWorks. You could do drawings with it, if you had to.

I'm sure there are more.

Regards,
JJ

On 01-Aug-2005, at 18:52, Andrey Lipavsky wrote:

>
> Ok, don't laugh but... can anybody recommend a worthwhile, yet
> inexpensive
> (free) CAD package for the Macintosh platform?

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