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Competing with those proprietary mcad will take a much better CAD kernel. FreeCAD uses OpenCASCADE. It's going to take a lot of time and effort to create a new
by sreevisakh 5y ago
Competing with those proprietary mcad will take a much better CAD kernel. FreeCAD uses OpenCASCADE. It's going to take a lot of time and effort to create a new one. There are a few projects around. I hope that one of them will catch on and get enough developer attention.
- walrus 5y agoWhat are some limitations of OpenCASCADE that are holding back CAD tools built on it?
- aaaaaygug 5y agoHelp as well documentation needs a lot of work. It is very difficult to even start using it. Even class names seem out of place sometimes.
- wiz21c 5y agoI second that question. I'd like to know...
- ur-whale 5y ago> What are some limitations of OpenCASCADE To name one: Booleans on NURBS are fare less robust in OpenCASCADE than their equivalent in commercial offerings.
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- enginoor 5y agoAs a long time CAD user I was surprised to learn that a CAD kernel exists as a concept and that the same kernel is licensed and used in competing CAD packages. Solidworks, Siemens NX, and OnShape all use the Parasolid kernel. Inventor and Fusion360 use the ShapeManager kernel. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geometric_modeling_kernel https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geometric_modeling_kernel