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| Open CASCADE | |
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| Developer | Open CASCADE S.A.S |
| Initial release | 2000 |
| Latest release | 6.2.0 / February 2007 |
| OS | Linux, Solaris, and Windows |
| Natural language(s) | C++ |
| Genre | CAD, CAM, CAE |
| Website | www.opencascade.org |
Open CASCADE is a software development platform for 3D CAD, CAM, CAE, etc. It is available under an LGPL-like license [1], though not approved by the Debian Free Software criteria for Linux, Solaris, and Windows. Open CASCADE is developed and supported by Open CASCADE S.A.S.
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History
CASCADE was originally developed in the early 90s by Matra Datavision , editor of Euclid CAD CAM Software as the underlying infrastructure for its future version Euclid Quantum. However, as the company abandoned software development to concentrate on services, the software branch was sold to Dassault Systemes, editor of competing CATIA in 1998. Matra Datavision decided to publish its CASCADE infrastructure under an Open Source model and renamed it Open CASCADE. The software is from that time managed by the Open CASCAD SAS which was acquired in 2003 by Principia, a french Service Provider corporation.
Packages
Foundation Classes
Modeling Data
Modeling Algorithms
Visualization
Application Framework
Data Exchange
Draw
Workshop Organization Kit (WOK)
WOK (Workshop Organization Kit) is Open CASCADE development environment, which allows a large numbers of developers to work on a variety of products simultaneously. Within the framework of this environment developers can produce multiple versions of products for various hardware and software platforms, including versions corresponding to specific marketing requirements. At the same time WOK enables to reuse software components with a maximum possible effect. In other words, WOK is designed to facilitate industrial scale development.
Moreover WOK allows to work with CDL (component definition language), which is the Open CASCADE programming platform. Some components, which CDL enables you to create, are specific to the Open CASCADE application architecture.
External links
| Free software Portal |
References
- ^ Open CASCADE Documentation
