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Date: Sun, 29 Mar 2015 16:43:34 +0100
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On Sun, 2015-03-29 at 09:48 -0500, John Griessen wrote:
> On 03/27/2015 08:24 PM, Peter Clifton wrote:
> > The fact I'm interested in interacting with mechanical CAD means I
> > favour STEP, but I'm wondering how accessible that is to everyone.
> 
> There is also solvespace that uses step.  It's a GPL 3d CAD with parametric solver
> for constraint based design.  Has the usual CSG primitives, plus shapes from bezier curves,
> and rotatable around an axis to generate "lathe" shapes.  It comes in a windows exec and can be compiled
> with the FLTK toolkit dependency on debian linux and some others without much trouble.

I looked at Solvespace when someone mentioned it earlier... it appears
to write STEP, but I didn't get the impression it could read it. Was  I
mistaken?

(PS.. I'm currently wading though STEP assembly construction. Simple
enough in theory, yet really confusing to follow actual examples).


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Peter Clifton <peter DOT clifton AT clifton-electronics DOT co DOT uk>

Clifton Electronics