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I am pretty sure Freecad support STEP format. Then it come to solid works it is hard to deal with and I think they try to diode everyone to their format.



On Tue, 22 Dec 2015 10:31:03 -0900
"Britton Kerin (britton DOT kerin AT gmail DOT com) [via geda-user AT delorie DOT com]" <geda-user AT delorie DOT com> wrote:

> On Mon, Dec 21, 2015 at 7:39 PM, <gedau AT igor2 DOT repo DOT hu> wrote:
> 
> >
> >
> > On Mon, 21 Dec 2015, DJ Delorie wrote:
> >
> >
> >> Despite of all the huge amount of work the have invested, unless they make
> >>> the work really publicly available, I'd prefer not building on it.
> >>>
> >>
> >> I.e. you want someone to either steal the work for you, or do a great
> >> deal of work on your behalf without any compensation?
> >>
> >
> > Nope. As far as I understood, we are considering the very first step of a
> > roadmap. The first step is about how to pick a file format or data
> > structure. Peter proposed a specific standard and listed a lot of pros.
> >
> > My point is only this: not having the standard freely available is a con
> > that we should not ignore.
> 
> 
> Seconded.  STEP its a huge pain in the behind because no free software
> supports it.  I had to have a copy of solid works on windows for nothing
> but export to STEP, so I could have parts designed with openSCAD actually
> manufactured.  That was a while ago and now 3D printing has forced
> manufacturers to support STL.  With that happening I doubt very much that
> FOSS support for STEP has improved much.  In any case *something* is
> definitely stopping STEP adoption in FOSS and it's a good bet its the
> relative unavailability of the standard.