I have been using POVRAY for over 15 years.
I used to use AC3D. When I first bought it I purchased a lifetime upgrade.
Then the author sold it to INIVIS, and the would not honour the licence.
I purchased one or two upgrades from them, but the price has sky rocketed.

My question for the forum is: what is the preferred open source CAD for POVRAY?

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On 30/09/12 23:53, soliday wrote:
> I have been using POVRAY for over 15 years.

   Congrats!

> I used to use AC3D. When I first bought it I purchased a lifetime
> upgrade. Then the author sold it to INIVIS, and the would not honour
> the licence. I purchased one or two upgrades from them, but the price
> has sky rocketed.
>

   Ah... that happened to me too, many years ago (not with AC3D, but
another program).

> My question for the forum is: what is the preferred open source CAD
> for POVRAY?
>

   There is no such thing as "preferred" when talking about modeling
tools for POV-Ray. There are some specifically oriented towards POV, but
you can use whatever you want, provided it exports some format that
Poseray can convert (note how in the case of 3D converters, Poseray *is*
the preferred app... it simply has no rival for conversion to POV-Ray SDL).

   Personally, I use only Wings3D to model isolate objects that I later
export to OBJ, so I can convert them to POV meshes with Poseray. But at
first, when trying to find "my tool", I tested almost them all...  and I
guess you should do that too, to find the one more suited for you (and
your existing skills). Just search for "POV-Ray modeler" in Google and
you will find the more usual choices...

   Regards,

--
Jaime

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