[cad-linux] Re: Open CASCADE Version 4.0

> 1. AFAIK there is only one complete 3D CAD
> application  based on
> OpenCascade for Linux, http://www.collabcad.com ,
> and it looks like the
> latest beta ( beta 1.0 was not working for me) 1.5
> is currently out for
> Windows only. 

i could not get it to run either.

> 
> 2. I have heard Varicad 8.0 for Linux should be out
> early in December,
> with (finally) IGES import and rewritten kernel
> (yeah - circles will be
> circles and not approximations by segments!)

that will be good news.  i was starting to worry that
they were going to pull the same things as
Microstation, and Varimetrix.  

where did you hear this?

> 
> 3. Realsoft3D for Linux runs pretty well and I am
> using it to generate 
> nice pictures from IGES files either from Catia or
> Varicad. Take a look 
> to http://www.slot.it  -- the two images on the left
> and right are made 
> by importing VariCAD IGES with Realsoft3D.
> 
> Hope this is of some help.
> 
> Maurizio
> 
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> 
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