Re: gEDA-user: quick question

[sdb@xxxxxxxxxx (Stuart Brorson)]

> Somebody knows about that=20
> http://www.opencascade.org/ ?

I browsed around the opencascade website while looking for a good CAD
program.  It looks like the opencascade stuff is just the engine for a
3D CAD program.  You'd need to do a bunch of work to turn it into
something useful for real drawings.  Or at least that was my
impression.  I could be wrong.

> The screenshot are really cool.
> Better than rendering the board, is to export for a program like that.

Yes, exactly.  If Kicad exports .dxf or .iges then it is a good step
in a useful direction since board models could then be incorporated
into larger system mechanical models.  Exporting ODB++ would be OK
too, although of less utility than exporting .dxf.  Otherwise, if you
can't export a mechanical model, the ability to do 3D modeling is
cute, but useless.

Anyway, the biggest missing piece to the puzzle here is good
mechanical 3D CAD.

Stuart