Re: gEDA-user: Ben mode feature request

[Evan Foss <evanfoss@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Sat, Oct 30, 2010 at 5:44 PM, kai-martin knaak <kmk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Evan Foss wrote:
>
>> I may have missed it but has anyone suggested the brlcad format. It
>> might be better than freecad in that it has export/import from a lot
>> of other formats already written.
>
> It might be worse in that its user interface is prohibitively non-
> intuitive. I looked at the application a few years ago, when I was in
> need for a mechanical CAD application. Even the most simple operations
> required a number of complex steps. There is a whole chapter in the
> manual on how to move a component. The user base of brlCAD is marginal
> and will probably shrink even more, as more intuitive open source CAD
> applications will become a viable alternative.

Following that logic gEDA will be made extinct by kicad any day now.
brlCAD is truely free while freecad is based on opencascade which has
a quasi open source licence.


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