“Enterprise-level CAD software comes to Linux.“
“Sana Abou-Haidar is a Marketing Manager at Matra DataVision, a
company with a middle- to high-end CASE CAD product. This product
is a set of components for the development of trade-specific
technical and scientific modeling applications ranging from
CAD/CAM/CAE to metrology and measuring machines, biomedical
software, 3-D geological mapping, optical simulation, product
design and styling. Matra is releasing the Linux version of this
product as open source on December 20, and will also be open
sourcing the software for other platforms as well. I talked to Sana
by phone on December 10.”
“Margie: Why don’t you begin by telling me a bit about the
product?”
“Sana: Okay; the product is Open CASCADE, and basically, Open
CASCADE is open source for CAS.CADE. CAS.CADE is Case for CAD
computer-aided software engineering for computer-aided applications
and is made up of a number of software components dedicated to the
development to scientific and technical applications. You know,
graphic applications. They deal with geometric modeling with
visualization, data exchange between a number of different graphic
applications, etc.”