Cadalyst Newsline: News and Productivity Tips for CAD Users 01/26/04. Volume 9 No. 4 . . . . ---------------------------------------------------------9 9. BUSINESS NOTES: NEW SOLVERS, LINUX INITIATIVE Russian company LEDAS, a new entrant in the CAD geometric solver market, released a 2D geometric solver and has a 3D solver in the works. LGS (LEDAS Geometric Solver) v1.0 supports creation and modification of designs using geometric and engineering constraints. LEDAS says its scalable architecture makes variational and parametric techniques available in a wide range of products. Planned future enhancements include full support for splines, well-constrained diagnostics, move-under constraints, autoconstraining, and optimization algorithms. The 3D version of LGS is due for prerelease in the third quarter of 2004. http://www.ledas.com Silicon Graphics launched an initiative to extend its graphics technology to systems running the Linux operating system. SGI will work with various open source graphics projects, including Chromium, and release a developer toolkit. The goal is to provide a commercial Linux visualization solution on par with UNIX systems. http://www.sgi.com ===== phrostie Oh I have slipped the surly bonds of DOS and danced the skies on Linux silvered wings. http://pfrostie.freeservers.com/cad-tastrafy/ //www.freelists.org/webpage/cad-linux __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free web site building tool. Try it! http://webhosting.yahoo.com/ps/sb/