“Developed by the Computer Aided Design Group of National
Informatics Centre (NIC) in New Delhi, India, the CollabCAD
application for accessing a number of online CAD systems is now
available as a free download for beta testing at
http://www.collabcad.com/download.html.”
“This Web-enabled, distributed software is designed to
provide one or more designers with secure, simultaneous access to a
CAD model. It can be thought of as a geometry workbench that allows
accessing geometry in the STEP, IGES, STL and VRML formats for
interfacing with third-party solutions. CollabCAD was built
using the Open CASCADE modeling kernel, an open-source software
that can be downloaded free of charge at
http://www.opencascade.com/getoc/index.html.”
“Based on distributed architecture computing, CollabCAD offers
numerous advantages: it is platform-independent thanks to its use
of JAVA code, has audio output for guidance and provides a very
affordable solution for both collaborative CAD and development. It
will be implemented on ISO 10303 [STEP] standards for product data
exchange. The beta version can be downloaded on Windows NT/98,
Linux and Sun Solaris platforms.”
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