From: "S. Emami" Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.win32,comp.graphics.api.opengl,comp.os.msdos.djgpp References: Subject: Re: open-source 3D cad program? Lines: 31 X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.72.3155.0 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3155.0 X-Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 203.26.30.18 Message-ID: <3a821809$1@dnews.tpgi.com.au> X-Original-Trace: 8 Feb 2001 14:52:41 +1100, 203.26.30.18 Date: Thu, 8 Feb 2001 14:58:34 +1100 NNTP-Posting-Host: 203.12.160.33 X-Complaints-To: abuse AT telstra DOT net X-Trace: nsw.nnrp.telstra.net 981604669 203.12.160.33 (Thu, 08 Feb 2001 14:57:49 EST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 08 Feb 2001 14:57:49 EST Organization: Customer of Telstra Big Pond Direct To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com Mike Darrett wrote in message ... >Hi guys, > >Just wondering, is there an open-source 3D cad program similar to 3D >Studio Max for the Windows/Linux platform? I think POVRay comes >closest...? I have written an open-source 3D drawing program called "Draw3D" that you may want to look at. It isn't a proper CAD package, there aren't engineering related actions, infact, there are almost no actions except for the most basic drawing actions like 3D move, rotate, scale, edit, delete. However it is Extremely fast at software rendering compared to any other Windows software that I have ever seen. The available version is written in Visual Basic 5.0 and NASM 0.97 assembler. I have completely rewritten the entire program in C (LCC-Win32) + NASM with true-color support, but that is not yet complete, so you will have to settle with the VB / NASM version for now. If you (or anyone else) want, I can e-mail you a copy of my version in C that isn't quite finished yet. Notably, it doesn't have any help, and it doesn't save to any common format, but it does open 3D Studio's "3DS" and "ASC" files, and so if you got both my VB and my C version, you could save the C versions files to its native format, and use the VB version to convert it to a DXF file. by Shervin Emami http://www.geocities.com/emami_s/Draw3D.html