@Dandy
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Dandy wrote:
Are you an engineer?
Yes, but I'm electrical/computer engineer. A 3D cad tool would be interesting to me for a couple simple projects. And someone had got the Via Openbook design converted to BRL CAD format for my Amiga laptop daydream thoughts. I wouldn't use OpenBook directly, but as something to learn about more complex CAD designs. When I was looking the official OpenBook site had turned into a cybersquatter ad site so I was happy to find this thing at all, especially already in BRL CAD as I wouldn't buy the commercial tool Via used.
http://bzflag.bz/%7Estarseeker/CAD_MODELS/VIA_OpenBook/It can export to STL format for hose cheap quick-turn prototype shops. Can Dynacad do STL?
There's also FreeCAD and OpenScad, and there's a lot of free designs for OpenScad on thingiverse.com. But you have to make your design in source code and compile it to output format or something like that so I haven't got excited about this one. Haven't looked at FreeCAD much yet.
At least a couple of these open-source tools depend on a big library, opencascade, that would likely be a big chunk of work to port by itself.