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Re: Which CAD program recommended for Mac??
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Sat, 23 Feb 2008 13:39:32 GMT
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In lugnet.cad, John Neal wrote:
> In lugnet.cad, Tommy Armstrong wrote:
> > On another list--one about that best of all 20th Century novellist, Patrick
> > O'Brian--I am kind of known as the LEGO guy. Had a question about which
> > would be best CAD program for an Apple. Told her I would post to the
> > experts. Any recocommendations would be apprecitate. As I have never used
> > any of them--being an engraver on bricks instead of being a builder with
> > bricks--I defer to the AKL on all subjects LEGO.
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> Hey, Tommy-
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> That would depend-- if he has a new Mac with the Intel chip, I'd say to go
> with MLCAD running Bootcamp. Otherwise, the choice would have to be
> Bricksmith.
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> [JOHN]
Sigh.
My preference would be to have one problem on both environments.
Unfortunatly MLCad will not be going open source. It almost happened.
I asked Allan Smith about having bricksmith ported to the PC, but he's not
even slightly interested. I *know* that Allan suffers from what we all suffer:
real life getting in the way of LEGO.
I had the pleasure of meeting Allan at the last Brickfest I attended. Allan,
how's the house remodling going?
I had hoped for a cross platform WYSIWYG model editor so LPub could integrate
with it so you could do all model (not thought about part editing) editing with
one application.
LPub 4.0 *will* work on any platform supported by Qt
http://trolltech.com/products/qt/features
including Mac, windows, unix and embedded linux.
After I get my tax rebate I will be buying a Mac and personally develop and
test both platforms. I guess I can port it to my solaris machines at work too.
I've tried not to do anything anti-Mac, but I'm afraid my noviciate status there
might allow some mistakes.
Any Mac *and* Qt software development experts out there?
Kevin
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| (...) Well, I wouldn't really call myself a Mac expert OR a QT expert, but I'm at least familiar with both. I did the initial port of LDView to QT years ago, but that's now maintained by Peter Bartfai. However, I do get into the QT code enough to (...) (17 years ago, 24-Feb-08, to lugnet.cad)
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| (...) Hey, Tommy- That would depend-- if he has a new Mac with the Intel chip, I'd say to go with MLCAD running Bootcamp. Otherwise, the choice would have to be Bricksmith. JOHN (17 years ago, 1-Feb-08, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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