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Re:BRL-CAD by linkdink on Wednesday August 17, 2022 @12:35PM (#32498534)
Blender provides much of the value of its competitors. A purely CAD tool does not. You have to solve the other problems primarily, while also having CAD. Otherwise, it's like having a text editor when no programming languages exist. What is your business going to do with that?
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Re:BRL-CAD by CRConrad on Tuesday August 23, 2022 @04:52AM (#32562165)
> Otherwise, it's like having a text editor when no programming languages exist.

You mean a bit like an operating system without a kernel...?

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Re:BRL-CAD by adastra22 on Wednesday August 17, 2022 @05:07PM (#32501763)
I think you’re fighting a straw man? There needs to be an open-source integrated CAD/CAM environment, like Fusion 360 is. That's what the OP in this subthread is asking for.
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Re:BRL-CAD by linkdink on Thursday August 18, 2022 @12:21AM (#32505237)
That wish is already granted

https://wiki.freecadweb.org/Path_Workbench

My thesis is that the bigger challenge is "economic", not technical.

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