What kind of cad are you focused on? Mechanical cad, architecutal cad, or something else? If you're interested there have been some experiments with blender http://projects.blender.org/projects/blendercad/ http://blenderartists.org/forum/showthread.php?t=65559
Unfortunately I don't think anything ever came out of those. There's also a 2d cad called pythoncad, http://www.pythoncad.org/ There's also Salome, which seems to have a python interface. Basically though, there isn't anything good right now but I'd love to see this. On Thu, 12 Feb 2009 21:30:49 +1300 greg <g...@cosc.canterbury.ac.nz> wrote: > rantingrick wrote: > > > It has long been my dream to create an open source 3D CAD program > > and > > > > I have a real good idea of the UI design > > Have you seen Sketchup? > > http://sketchup.google.com/ > > It has an amazingly intuitive user interface, much better > than any other 3D modeller I've seen. Anyone thinking of > designing a 3D app would do well to study it closely, IMO. > > Something with a Sketchup-like UI but designed for serious > CAD work would be an incredibly good thing to have. > > In any case, your project sounds interesting, and I'll > be happy to discuss ideas if you want. > -- Josh Dukes MicroVu IT Department -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
