I also suggest Alibre Express, although it is for Windows and it's not FOSS, but I was involved in much of the writing of it, so I enjoy seeing it being used.<br><br>Blender would work great for this application, although it's not a parametric solid modeler. I'll have to give it a spin.
<br>--Mark Arvidson<br><br>P.S. check out my first openmoko app at <a href="http://sagacis.doesntexist.com/openmoko-dashboard_0.9_armv4t.ipk">http://sagacis.doesntexist.com/openmoko-dashboard_0.9_armv4t.ipk</a> <br><br><div class="gmail_quote">
On Jan 14, 2008 1:55 PM, Michael Shiloh <<a href="mailto:michael@openmoko.org">michael@openmoko.org</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="Ih2E3d"><br><br>Jeremiah Flerchinger wrote:<br>> Yes, you did say they were going to try and make CAD files available.<br>> I'm happy to hear further confirmation back so soon. Hopefully it won't
<br>> take too much longer to get the files. DXF files should also be fine.<br>> I know of several free editors that can import these natively or with a<br>> plugin (although not all of them export dxf files).<br>
<br></div>A quick spot-check indicated that Blender can import and export dxf<br>files. Blender is FOSS and runs on Linux.<br><div class="Ih2E3d"><br><br>><br>> Do you know if this model has objects providing dimensions for the pcb,
<br>> screen, battery, & other elements? It isn't a problem to wait & see, if<br>> the release will be occurring soon. I was just curious.<br><br></div>I don't know. I'd ask, but I don't want to slow the process down. I
<br>agree with you - wait and see what we get, then I can ask for the rest<br>later.<br><div><div></div><div class="Wj3C7c"><br>Michael<br><br>_______________________________________________<br>OpenMoko community mailing list
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