I was using a CASE called MAGIC for a system I'm developing, I've never used this kind of tool before and at first sight I liked, a month later I had a lot of the application generated, I felt very productive and ... I would say ... satisfied. In some way a felt uncomfortable, cause, there is no code and everything I was used to, but in...
I am currently using Eagle CAD 5.x and I am unable to use older parts libraries that were created for the 4.x version of Eagle CAD. Does anyone know of a way to convert them to the new format that is required by the new version? I am looking for the Parallax SX28/SX48 parts, they are in the Scenix library that can be downloaded from Eag...
What is a good .Net vector graphics library that can be used for CAD like applications, and has a reasonable set of features specific for this type of applications, like computational functions (area, lengths, boolean shape operations etc). One good solution would be to use WPF as it's vector graphics based, but it's very much UI orient...
I am looking for .net CAD component that can read/write dxf/dwg files. Besides vector draw, is there any other such components? ...
Did anyone try to read programmatically an Alibre Design CAD file? I see that deep inside a part file (*.AD_PRT) there's an STEP/ISO 10303-21 structure, but I'm wondering about the rest of the file.. Is it proprietary? ...
I need code to my app that converts CAD files (mostly .step, .iges) into 3D surface models (.stl). Do you have a suggestion? Freely available stuff? (One suggestion per posting) ...
Hello, Is it possible to do CAD/CAM software without having to use C++? My company developed their software with c/C++ but that was more than 10 years ago. Today,there is a lot of legacy code that switching would force us to get rid of but i was wondering what the actual risks are. We have a lot of mathematical algorithms for toolpath c...
Hi all, I am developing, in C++, a Computer Aided Design package for Printed Circuit Boards and Schematics (aka EDA CAD). It uses Lua for some specific things, but I would like to expand the role of Lua so that it implements much of the user interface logic. I would like to re-build the internals in a way which lets people change the ...
I have 3D CAD model that I want to show on a web page. I'd like to show it in a form like a <img> tag (e.g. inline with everything else rather than as a separate page) and I want the visitor to be able to rotate the model to view it from different perspectives. What options do I have? Things I'm thinking of/looking at VRML 3DXML flas...
I have a large MFC C++ application that I would be very keen to port into AutoCAD and IntelliCAD. AutoDesk offer Object ARX for this purpose, which replaces the older and slower ADS technology. IntelliCAD, afaik only supports ADS. Has anyone out there done this, and if so which tools did you use and what pitfalls did you encounter? I...
Story: I am developing a construction tool for wooden boxes. A box consists of a set of boards, each board is represented as 3 3D-vectors, and one placement vector. Each box is visualized using OpenGL. Now, these boxes will be moved around with forklifts, which will apply some forces on them. I would like to calculate the forces on each...
We are developing some stress and strain analysis software at university. Now it's time to move from rectangles and boxes and spheres to some real models. But I still have little idea where to start. In our software we are going to build mesh and then make calculations, but how do I import solid bodies from CAD/CAE software? 1) How CAD...
I am looking to implement a 3D model viewer in my application. The application uses a series of interlinked plug-in objects, with user attributes, to contribute to the 3D form. (Basically a parametric design tool). The plug-ins must communicate via a common, simple, protocol as they may also be user contributed and so I am looking for ...
I am creating a CAD like program, creating modelvisual3D objects. How do i do collision detection between my objects(modelvisual3d) using MeshGeometry3D. Do i have to compare every triangle in the moving object against the still standing objects? What will be my best way to do collision detection? ...
I'm building a test technology for verifying web implementations against a specification. For this, I need a lite, easy to use, GUI design tool which allows me to create rectangles and define relationships between them. I imagine the tool would have a CAD-like interface. Since I'm modeling web designs, I want to constrain the user so t...
I am trying to learn WPF and xaml and am writing a cad style geometry app for my kids. Does anyone know of an existing example written in VB.net? C# is fine as well. Thanks! EDIT: Any thoughts/examples on how to structure such an app? TIA ...
Hi, I am working on a CAD application and thinking of using WPF for rendering my entities. But it seems like WPF doesnt support drawing 3D lines. Is there any ways for drawing 3D lines in WPF? I dont like to create a mesh for each line entity I need to draw as I am afraid, this would cause a major performance hitch for me as I would have...
Hello all I want to draw at my winforms application some CAD drawings. Also I will need some parts of the drawings from them be a user interactive (Interactive with the mouse) . Any idea what technology should i use for drawings here ? Thanks . ...
Basically I'm looking for something that will allow users to open and modify dwf files in their browser (like the Autodesk Design Review allows users to open files in IE). But is there such a probgram that will run from a server, without the user having to install anything on their computer? ...
I've been asked to investigate the feasibility of adding watermarks to documents when printed through our application. The documents will consist of word, pdf and cad. The interface of the application is vb6 with a plethora of vc6 dll's. I can see a couple of possible solutions: Convert all documents to PDF, add a watermark and the...