Mark W. Eichin writes: > There are a bunch of cad-like packages in debian; I'm hoping that > people have tried enough of them to make a recommendation: > > I'm looking for something to do a house-walkthrough, with enough > detail to show (for example) if a given size of book case will really > fit in a particular location (so 1cm resolution, for spaces up to 30m > across.) A raw geometric CAD program might do; so might a VRML tool; > for that matter, a Doom/Quake WAD editor might be good enough although > I don't actually know of any DFSG-free ones. I'm more interested in > *functional* than pretty - I figure I can always dump the data into a > renderer later... > > Suggestions? DFSG-free very highly preferred (because I'll probably > dislike *something* and want to change it) but if you think the Right > Tool is something specific that is non-DFSG but still available for > Debian, I'm still interested (mostly so as not to eliminate java apps...) > > _Mark_ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > The Herd of Kittens
Mark - I am a Debian user, and I have spent some time trying to find an application or applications to do 2d CAD work, 3d modelling, rendering and animation. The best I have been able to come up with is "Octree" for CAD (2d&3d) http://www.octree.de (I have been unable to make it run on my debian (slink) system, but I believe it is easy to do so (I am a non-geek) - I have made it run on NT, and it was designed on SuSE, the people on the mailing list are very helpful...maybe when I upgrade to potato). For rendering and animation, try Radiance http://radsite.lbl.gov/radiance/index.html Peter
