I am completely empty and shallow. I use no CAD package at all now. I would like to buy one for recreational use, instead of watching American Idol.
What CAD package has integrated FEA and rigid body calculations so that I could design a bar stool, and easily determine: a) if it is top-heavy, so that drunken customers could easily tip it over, and b) if a fat drunken customer sat on it, which part would give way first. Also, are there such things as libraries of materials that I could specify, which the FEA would take into account, so that a bar stool made of PVC would bend differently from a bar stool made of tungsten? Also, what about Python and CAD? I've seen http://free-cad.sourceforge.net and pythoncad, but have any major CAD vendors incorporated Python, sort of the way that ESRI used Python in it's ArcView GIS product? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
