#Librecad wiki software
Despite the similarity in naming conventions, this app has nothing to do with LibreOffice, with the only similarity being that both pieces of software are available for free.Ī big plus point is the fact that the program is available for all three of the main operating systems – Windows, OS X and Linux – making it ideal for small businesses on a tight budget working in a mixed platform environment.
#Librecad wiki free
LibreCAD gets off to a good started thanks to the fact that it is available free of charge as it is an open source design tool.
#Librecad wiki code
I imagine that we could probably be more likely to be able to "port" chunks of HeeksCAD (and Salome) code because at least it is based on the same CAD kernel (occ).Computer Aided Design tools are notorious for not only being quite expensive, but also being complicated to use. Or do you mean more like we find a chunk of code you like somewhere within the LibreCAD code and then (port?)/modify it so that it is integrated into FreeCAD? (assuming their licence allows this, of course). You mentioned, for example, "selection", but isn't that really a typically good example of where it would be better to develop it again in FreeCAD so that it works in all of FreeCAD? I mean other wise doesn't that mean that FreeCAD would only have all those selection mechanisms when one was using a semi-integrated Librecad workbench? If I am understanding you correctly you are suggesting that the linking would work a bit like selecting another workbench? Then LibreCAD would be sort of running inside FreeCAD like it is a FreeCAD plugin? If so, I guess the main down side of integrating anything like Librecad is that the features gained are only available in that LibreCAD module/workbench created? 3d format, 2d format, CAM-gcode format, or something like that? We may only need one file format, hopefully, but if needed we could possibly encourage a "set" of file formats? eg. Like the open document set of file formats. So being able to open existing DXF work would be good but it has limited value, should be viewed as a legacy format only and I think should not be encouraged for current use.Ħ) Once again I have not yet researched this and I believe some of it may already exist to some extent but I think we should create/adopt/encourage a fully open CAD file standard/set of standard files, as and when appropriate. So what I am saying is DXF is a very bad format and not open. (and never use that engineer/architect again). So I just had to go back and redraw from scratch.
#Librecad wiki professional
So even though I asked the idiot involved to send me dxf files, this "nameless" so called professional still sent me proprietary crap DXF that I couldn't use. They have made their dfx library a separate thing now.Ĥ) how many of the commercial apps that can export to DXF can also export to SVG (or something else)ĥ) the BIG DXF issue I have found with silly commercial software, is that I still couldn't read the DXF anyway, because it was one of the later versions which Autocad hid the specifications of.
It seems to me that the following are the key questionsġ)What exactly can Librecad offer that is not already in occ, if not in FreeCAD?Ī) the geometry stuff is all there in occ, I think, or at least mostly so.ī) measuring, file format conversion, units, what else?Ģ)is the effort in bridging the to applications more or less, effort than just implementing a few missing things into FreeCAD?ģ) how neat and tidy or professional would the integration/bridging be? Presumably not as good as re implementing the feature natively in FreeCAD, unless we are just talking about using bits of it like a library. I intend to workout what my opinion should be on these matters over time. I am not expecting you guys to respond to these questions, they are more a description of my thought processes on the matters. Of course you main developers, and others, probably already know the answers to all this.
I was intending to research all of this first, but the topic has come up now before I have had a chance to. FreeCAD incorporating Librecad is this really a good idea? (This is all genuine questions, not a statements)
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