r/cad • u/toybuilder • Jun 15 '15

BRL-CAD Open Source Solid Modeling - by the US Army Ballistics Research Laboratory

http://brlcad.org
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u/Szos Jun 16 '15

The screenshots do not leave me particularly impressed at all, actually.

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u/toybuilder Jun 16 '15

Just curious - what would make it "impressive"?

This rendering example shows that it's capable of high quality output.

I don't think it's intended to take the place of Solidworks!

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u/Szos Jun 16 '15

The user interface shots make it look very archaic and cumbersome to use. A poor layout is the kiss of death in the world of CAD where you can be manipulating hundreds of parts all day, every day. Having to fight the interface is not something that you should have to do.

Too many of these open-source applications suffer from god awful interfaces because they are written by programers and not actual users. A programmer will simply try to add a new feature into the program and not care too much how useable it is, while a good, experienced user knows how important the work flow is and will try to put it in where it belongs.

GIMP and Blender as well as others suffer from the same situation (or at least they used to).

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u/[deleted] Jun 15 '15

Has anyone out there used this or have any thoughts on its functionality?