FOSS CAD and 3D Modeling Software? 413
Paul server guy writes "I work at a privately funded, open source, manned, return to the moon mission — Yes really, and Yes, we really are going to put man (and woman) back on the moon. Since we are open source, we want all of our tools to be, too. What we are looking for is CAD software that we can feed into Blender (or the like) to do 3D modeling with. Many of the engineers have tried working with Blender and Art of Illusion, but have not been pleased. They want to just draw the parts, then feed them to the art people who will run them through the 3D modelers for videos, illustrations and such. What is your preference?"
re: FOSS CAD and 3D Modeling Software? (Score:5, Funny)
gnu moon mission (Score:2, Funny)
Put a Stallman on the moon, Im shure you will get funding
Re:You've raised $130 out of $7500 (Score:4, Funny)
-Right. Now, uh, item four: attainment of world supremacy within the next five years. Uh, Francis, you've been doing some work on this.
-Yeah. Thank you, Reg. Well, quite frankly, siblings, I think five years is optimistic, unless we can smash the Roman empire within the next twelve months.
rj
Re:OSS CAD? (Score:3, Funny)
no probably Carl Bass [autodesk.com]
Re:Why? (Score:5, Funny)
Do you really have to ask this question, isn't it obvious?
He answered already: they want to put a man on a moon and a woman.
It's a ploy for the man to get the woman. Obviously he figured that the only way to do so is to get her to the moon and basically eliminate the entire world from competing.
Also, he probably will limit her life support supplies, such as air, and she will only find out about it there and will be forced to beg him for this stuff. You'd think under the circumstances he is bound to get her finally.
Re:You've raised $130 out of $7500 (Score:5, Funny)
Or is the a scheme to get money out of stupid geeks by driving traffic to your website?
Drive geeks to their website? Everyone knows /. readers don't RTFA.
site is dead (Score:1, Funny)
" privately funded, open source, manned" ...you may now add "slashdotted"
If I were an astronaut... (Score:5, Funny)
I'd be quite scared to be launched on the Moon by a company that asked suggestions about the tools to use on Slashdot!
Re:gnu moon mission (Score:3, Funny)
Re:You've raised $130 out of $7500 (Score:1, Funny)
> it seems to be a common occurrence to find space projects with horrid web sites.
Even more common is finding horrid software (and licensing) behind professional looking websites:
Consider:
http://www.microsoft.com/en/us/default.aspx [microsoft.com]
http://www.apple.com/webapps/ [apple.com]
HEY GUYS (Score:1, Funny)
I want to turn my used Toyota into a rocketship to get to the moon. Serious, no joke. However I'm having a hard time trying to program everything in QBasic, it seems the MSDOS console I shoved into the dashboard keeps crashing and my brakes don't work. Can you recommend an open source solution instead?
Re:Shame on you (Score:3, Funny)
Re:You've raised $130 out of $7500 (Score:5, Funny)
Hi Charles, how ya doin'? :)
Re:No Chance. (Score:3, Funny)
News flash: the moon has rocks and dust!!
Bullshit. It's discoid-shaped and made out of cheese.
Re:Business model (Score:2, Funny)
But wouldn't that be a good thing? Then we wouldn't have night time at all.
Re:You've raised $130 out of $7500 (Score:4, Funny)
Re:pen + paper works (Score:2, Funny)
They tried, but they couldn't find an open sourced pen ...
Re:Business model (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Business model (Score:3, Funny)
Fly indiana jones and have him leave a bag of peebles when taking the rocks.
Re:gnu moon mission (Score:3, Funny)
Yeah, but then they'd never get a woman on the moon!
Human woman, perhaps, but a female wookie....woooooonnnngngngngngng!
Re:You've raised $130 out of $7500 (Score:5, Funny)
You know, that's a bizarre occurance. Slashdot takes down sites so much the name has become a verb. Yet, nobody reads the article before posting. How do so many geeks manage that? I mean, I post my knee-jerk reactions to a site, but at least I have the courtesy to not cost them bandwidth.
Re:Business model (Score:3, Funny)
Fly indiana jones and have him leave a bag of peebles when taking the rocks.
Harrison Ford probably wouldn't be interested in the venture at this point in his life. Also, I doubt that Mario Van Peebles [imdb.com] could be convinced to part with such a personal item.
"professional" (Score:2, Funny)
professional CAD users need to grow some balls and use BRL-CAD.
Re:"professional" (Score:3, Funny)
Dentists need to grow some balls and use hand tools only.
Re:You've raised $130 out of $7500 (Score:3, Funny)
It looks like that campaign was supposed to end last year, on Dec 31st. Why should we waste time answering your questions now, given the seemingly unrealistic goal, when you can't even format a donation box? Or is the a scheme to get money out of stupid geeks by driving traffic to your website?
Instead of spreading rumors you could find out the facts. This a full year campaign to recruit 250 people that has barely started. Nothing unrealistic about that goal. The widget only represents sign-ups for this year completed through the website not total membership. I was in the middle of changing the title on the widget to represent this more clearly when the fur started flying. The stand-alone version of CiviCRM provides a bland sign-up page. We were trying to correct it while our web master was in the Sahara before making a campaign push.
Debi-Lee Wilkinson
VP. Membership and Development, the OpenLuna Foundation, Inc
(and yes, a rocket scientist floundering with web design - I would rather be flying rockets)