CAD software

• http://www.qcad.org
• “The BRL-CAD package is a Constructive Solid Geometry (CSG) solid modeling system. BRL-CAD includes … image-processing and signal-processing tools. … distributed in source code form.” http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?BrlCad http://brlcad.org/

electrical CAD

• http://tinycad.sourceforge.net
• http://gEDA.seul.org/
• http://atlc.sourceforge.net
• http://gael.sourceforge.net
• http://staticfreesoft.com/ (todo: finish translation from C to Java)
• http://bach.ece.jhu.edu/~haceaton/pcb
• The Java Electric CAD Tool by Steven M. Rubin

other CAD-related wiki

• http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Blender_3D:_Noob_to_Pro
• http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Pro_Engineer
• …

CAD-related software techniques

• D-Bus allows applications to communicate with each other – it is used in GNOME and KDE. Electrical CAD systems often have many pieces loosely joined together – the schematic editor, the SPICE simulator, the PCB layout, etc. Does it make sense to use D-Bus in CAD software?