Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2271 mails)

[Stanley Long <slong@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 2004-04-26 at 05:54, Carlos E. R. wrote:
> The Sunday 2004-04-25 at 21:28 -1000, plain wrote:
> 
> > Unfortunately this is an area where linux needs to make major inroads.
> 
> I heard about a "BricCads for Linux", but I have no idea how good/bad it
> is.
Try BRL-CAD at http://ftp.arl.mil/brlcad/
 ... free, but requires registration

for a short explanation, see
http://www.faqs.org/faqs/graphics/fileformats-faq/part3/section-20.html
===========  BEGIN QUOTED MATERIAL =====================
The BRL-CAD Package is a powerful Constructive Solid Geometry (CSG)  
based solid modeling system. BRL-CAD consists of over 100 different
programs, including an interactive geometry editor, a ray tracing
library, two ray-tracing based lighting models, a generic framebuffer
library, a network-distributed image-processing and signal-processing
capability, and a large collection of related tools and utilities.
Release 4.0 is the latest version of software which has been undergoing
continuous development since 1979. 

The BRL-CAD documentation is distributed in five volumes:
==========  END QUOTED MATERIAL ===========================


> I don't need it, personally, but electronic design tools I do need.
> There is gEDA... a bit green yet.
> 
> -- 
> Cheers,
>        Carlos Robinson
>