01-28-2017
Best OS for surveying / CAD applications
My first computer experience was in the mid 60's but I haven't kept up with the technology. My needs run more to math & calculations than to social networking. CAD drawing & communicating technical data on the internet is essential for me these days. Most of the post processed data I receive is in a RINEX file format which is converted to a windows compatible format. I am looking for recommendations for a UNIX/LINUX OS. I imagine there are a number of good alternatives but I would like to keep it as simple as possible. Any helpful suggestions are welcome. One big problem is that there are few, if any, surveying COGO & integrated CAD software programs that run on non windows platforms. Some shareware programs will run on just about any OS.
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openscad
OPENSCAD(1) General Commands Manual OPENSCAD(1)
NAME
openscad - script file based graphical CAD environment
SYNOPSIS
openscad [options] [file]
DESCRIPTION
This manual page documents briefly the openscad command.
openscad is a software for creating solid 3D CAD objects. It focuses on CAD aspects rather than artistic ones.
OpenSCAD will start as a graphical program unless export options are given (see below). For the usage of the GUI and a description of the
OpenSCAD language see the OpenSCAD user manual at http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/OpenSCAD_User_Manual.
OPTIONS
-o outputfile
Export the given file to outputfile in STL, OFF, DXF or CSG format, depending on file extension of outputfile (which has to be lower
case). If this option is given, the GUI will not be started.
-d file.deps
If the -d option is given, all files accessed while exporting are written to the given deps file in the syntax of a Makefile.
-m make_command
If a nonexisting file is accessed during OpenSCAD's operation, it will try to invoke make_command missing_file to create the missing
file, and then read it again.
-D var=val
This option can be used to assign constant values to OpenSCAD variables. The variable's value is an expression, so if this mechanism
is used to assign strings, care has to be taken that the shell does not consume quotation marks. More than one -D options can be
given.
-v, --version
Show version of program.
AUTHOR
OpenSCAD was written by Clifford Wolf, Marius Kintel, and others.
This manual page was written by chrysn <chrysn@fsfe.org>, for the Debian project (and may be used by others).
2011-11-03 OPENSCAD(1)