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Open Source Engineering Software?

Posted by Cliff on from the better-than-a-digital-protractor dept.

pipingguy asks: "A long-time subscriber to my piping design/engineering-related discussion list inquired about Open Source engineering software (and expressed an interest in moving to Linux), citing the high cost and often poor customer support of the commercial packages. Since there are quite a few non-Software Engineers reading Slashdot, I thought I'd ask a 'somewhat larger' userbase by posting the question here. What Open Source engineering software is out there and useful?"

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  1. Re:Naive question by R2.0 · · Score: 2, Funny

    "Piping" is a long hole surrounded by a solid material, often metal, to form a shape commonly referred to as "tubular", or "pipular."

    --
    "As God is my witness, I thought turkeys could fly." A. Carlson
  2. Exactly what you are looking for. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Funny

    Man are in luck. Almost any modern Linux distro happens to include an Open Source pipe design/rendering package. It is called Pipes and it is very cool. It can be configured to completely automatically design and render pipe systems and you can do it manually if you want. It is light weight and very fast. It uses OpenGL for is high quality rendering.

    You can find it here: $ /usr/X11R6/lib/xscreensaver/pipes

    Hope this helps.