Re: gEDA-user: PCB+GL+3D Packages??

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

Hi John, 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: geda-user-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx 
> [mailto:geda-user-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of John Griessen
> Sent: Monday, November 15, 2010 10:50 PM
> To: gEDA user mailing list
> Subject: Re: gEDA-user: PCB+GL+3D Packages??
> 
> On 11/15/2010 03:24 PM, Peter Clifton wrote:
> >> However, OpenSCAD seems to have some (user) momentum in 
> the MakerBot&
> >> >  Thingieverse culture, and the OpenSCAD code resembles to be a 
> >> > small subset  of the C programming language.
> > Interesting.
> >
> >> >  At least one nifty thing OpenSCAD can do is extrude a geometry 
> >> > defined in a  2D DXF-file (made with QCAD for instance), 
> this would 
> >> > allow for arbitrary  shaped boards.
> > Nice.
> 
> HeeksCAD can do both those things and has python interface 
> instead of a "subset"
> script language (another new language)...or it has a GUI to 
> make sketches (2D outlines) from faces of solid primitives or 
> from complex booleans of solids.
> 
>   Thingieverse culture is about quick easy copying mostly, 
> not very good for revising designs.
> They mostly use STL.  Reprap is the group that's been 
> promoting openscad lately.
> 
> I prefer HeeksCAD for the python interface.  I'm adding a 
> feature to that python interface today, and I was a newbie to 
> HeeksCAD three weeks ago.
> 
> JG
> 


Well, I better have a close look at HeeksCAD also.

My python-fu is weak though ;-(

Kind regards,

Bert Timmerman. 



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