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>> I've always found it a little surprising that companies haven't built/funded a open-source organization for parametric mechanical CAD, similar to Blender for

>> I've always found it a little surprising that companies haven't built/funded a open-source organization for parametric mechanical CAD, similar to Blender for games or KiCad for electronics/PCB design. Unigraphics was owned by McDonnell Douglas and then sold to EDS, which was a subsidiary of General Motors. As far as I know, GM still uses Unigraphics as their primary CAD system.

redis_mlc 6y ago
> I've always found it a little surprising that companies haven't built/funded a open-source Well, Blender didn't start as an Open Source project, and is kind of a one-off in that regard. I can't think of any CAD projects started by commercial consortiums, especially Open Source. Blender was a (small) commercial product by Not a Number (NaN), and when the parent company failed, was announced that it could be liberated with E100,000 donations. Normally (almost always) when a software company fails, the receiver sells the IP to a competitor and there's no thought of going the route of Blender. So you won't see many stories like Blender. https://www.blender.org/foundation/history/ https://www.blender.org/foundation/history/ KiCad was originally a one-man hobby project by somebody at Grenoble University, which is the more typical origin of Open Source CAD software: https://kicad-pcb.org/about/kicad/ https://kicad-pcb.org/about/kicad/