Re: gEDA-user: Ben mode feature request

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

Hi DJ,

IMHO and AFAICT STEP is a "closed" standard, that is, one will have to
(probably ?) buy a copy of the standard and then violate the copyright
notice prohibiting to disclose (reproduce ?) its contents into some sort of
a library (libSTEP ?), which then could be published under LGPL and used by
GPL-compatible FOSS.

Please correct me if I'm having a wrong impression here, as I would be glad
to hear that ;-)

And then the mentioning of a "hairy" format ... Me shivers ... Hmm, would
that give us robust code ?

If we want to export towards (proprietary) mechanical CAD I would rather put
my money on IDF.

Maybe Blender, OpenSCAD or BRL-CAD should become our 3D-friends ?

Kind regards,

Bert Timmerman.

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> 
> One suggestion I got a Devcon was to support STEP format for 
> 3-d graphics.  While it's a hairy format, it was said to be 
> "the standard"
> for sharing 3-d models of components.
> 
> Of course, it would be nicer if someone *else* supported it for us :-)
> 
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