gEDA-user: 3d package to land pattern generator

[John Griessen <john@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Armin Faltl wrote:

> IGES is an old US military standard. It means 'Initial Graphics Exchange 
> Specification'
> and the specification for it is freely available, since it's a work from 
> a US government
> agency (I got it ;-). As the name says, it was meant as preliminary 
> work, but served
> it's purpose for decades. Now it's being replaced by STEP...
>
> For the reason that STEP costs a lot of money, I wonder how the FreeCAD 
> guys
> want to keep the promisse to provide import and export for it - maybe a 
> feature
> of the OpenCASCADE kernel - but how did they?

Not sure why, but they recommended it when wanting to do anything parametric
a couple of months ago... I couldn't get enough to function then.
Sounds like time to revisit their forums.  Wish they would open up to
an email list instead of isolated forum website for all contact.

John
--
Ecosensory   Austin TX


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