Re: gEDA-user: Commercial CAD, land pattern generators report

["Bert Timmerman" <bert.timmerman@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi all, 

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> kai-martin knaak
> Sent: Friday, August 13, 2010 11:43 PM
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> 
> Felipe De la Puente Christen wrote:
> 
> > Why not using IDES/STEP file format.
> 
> Because STEP is a hell of a standard and non-free, too. It 
> encompasses much more than 3D mechanical data and aims to 
> cover every aspect of every product. The standard itself is 
> closed source. You have to pay real money and sign a NDA 
> document to receive a copy. 
> 
> I once tried figure, how a cube as a 3D equivalent to 
> "hello-world" would look like in STEP format. There was lots 
> and lots information available _on_ STEP but none on the 
> actual syntax.
> 
> Going the freecad way would avoid this kind of hassle. 
> 
> 
> > According to my Aerspace related partners, DXF has almost 
> nothing to 
> > apport to 3D CAD.
>  
> true.
> 
> ---<)kaimrtin(>---
> --
> Kai-Martin Knaak
> Öffentlicher PGP-Schlüssel:
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> 
> 

Intermediate Data Format (IDF) may be a viable solution, some main stream
CAD applications  use it or have import/export functionality for IDF.

The format is described here:

http://www.simplifiedsolutionsinc.com/images/idf_v20_spec.pdf

Or have a google with "IDF CAD".

Happy reading.

Kind regards,

Bert Timmerman.



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