[cad-linux] Just...

Greetings to all,

It is very encouraging to see this list with increasing activity at time
progresses. Three Kudos to all those contributing!

Now, I am not any programmer. In fact I am from the one of fields most
remote from comp. programming. I am an architect :-)). Most of the
discussions I have read are engineering oriented. Agreed that the majority
of the members must be from the engineering domain. But I would be
interested to know of any active opensource CAAD project or maybe even
people with plain ideas. I say CAAD because I emphasise: Computer Aided
Architectural Design. There are softwares like Octree and Cycas, but are not
Opensource.

Are there any people out there thinking in the same direction? However my
inclination towards architectural design software should not be taken for an
exclusion of the ever-imporant engineering domain either. In fact any CAD
software shares most of its base in both. Could there be a project with
completely different ideology? CAD porgrams with a Constraint engine built
into it? Or maybe a hierarchial tree of represented objects? Apart from
taking CAD as Comp. Aided Drafting, could we also talk of Comp. Aided Design
& Drafting?

And instead of *almost always* trying to make Autodesk software as a role
model, could we free our thinking and develop ideas in alternative and
possibly more productive direction? With no offence, I personally find
AutoCAD too restrictive for any design process, too linear. And in my humble
opinion that's exactly what design is not. Since this list is devoted to CAD
for Linux, does it not suggest that here is a great opportunity to develop
ideas anew? Linux and more generally the opensource movement itself has
generated a great synergy. Isn't there scope for completely breaking away
from traditions and explore new ideas in CAD? Many discussions are about
file viewers, about shareware cad softwares. That's good but even better if
there's some about new ideas too.

Hope that there are atleast a few who share my view and will talk out. But
anyways, this list is a pretty good one :-)


Regards,
Vishal.



It is in fact nothing short of a miracle that the modern methods of
instruction have not yet entirely strangled the holy curious of inquiry.
It is a very grave mistake to think that the enjoyment of seeing and
searching can be promoted by means of coercion and a sense of duty.

~ Albert Einstein.



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