Death before dishonor. But neither before breakfast. ________________________________________ From: "Hundiak, Arthur" <ahundiak@xxxxxxxx> Sent: Monday, September 16, 2002 6:49 PM <<I think what stopped the various open source CAD projects is the sheer magnitude of the task.>> That indeed is very true Arthur. Such an undertaking is far from a small army task. Starting new open source projects each time a person gets an 'idea & vision' doesnt seem a good idea. Should be better to join exisiting promising projects parallel to one's interests & contribute. It is time open source grew up from a huge pile of small time experiments to something *big scale*. If it can be managed, a *real full-fledged open source CAD system* should do the thing for the morale of open source philosophy & practice. <<Back in the nineties our company produced an outstanding 2D/3D fully parametric associative extendible drafting/modeling/production package. It's currently being used to design, model and build the Navy's latest warship (the LPD 17 class).>> You possibly could give us more insight into this? A technical insight I mean. One observation & suggestion I desire to make is, could we have more technically detailed inputs here? CAD system developers (I am sure there are many who lurk here silently) could give comments on possible & feasible approaches. <<The source code consists of approximately 40,000 (yes forty thousand) files. And some of these files contain thousands of lines of code.>> :-) Expected. But then don't tell us that it is impossible or not worth it to materialize such a dream. regards, v i s h a l . [ a v i r t u a l l y t r i v i a l n o t h i n g ]