[cad-linux] Re: Just...
- From: phrostie <pfrostie@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: cad-linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 10 Mar 2002 09:26:20 -0500
acctually i thought there were more Arch types on the list.
i think those of us in Engineering are a little louder. :-/
On Sunday 10 March 2002 01:30, you wrote:
> 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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