FOSS CAD and 3D Modeling Software?

Posted by timothy on Sunday January 31, 2010 @11:37AM from the blue-sky-all-around dept.

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?"

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Re:You've raised $130 out of $7500 by Anonymous Coward · 2010-01-31 13:02 · Score: 5, Interesting

Actually, there is very little evidence that Interorbital has produced any real hardware in the past few years. Plenty of models and drawings, but no actual hardware (let alone flight tests).
(Posted AC because I'm in the industry, and Interorbital has made themselves a pain in the past for people who say this sort of thing about them. But don't take my AC word for it: go try to find evidence they've built or flown something. If they have, there should be plenty of info, right?)
If you want real web sites, check out people like Armadillo, XCOR, Masten, or Unreasonable, for example.