Open CASCADE - along with ACIS and Parasolid - is one of the three major modeling kernels available on the market today. It is quite a sophisticated set of C/C++ libraries. According to the  information  from  its  vendor, tens of millions of dollars  were  invested  into its development. This is reflected both in the number of features and the quality of the product. It seems to be an ideal starting point if you are going to develop a very complex CAD/CAM/CAE, GIS or other engineering type or scientific applications.

It is virtually impossible to list all the tools here that Open CASCADE provides you.

Some examples are:

2D and 3D geometry modules

visualization tools

topological tools

IGES, STEP ( and other )  standardized data handling

shape healing and many-many more

There is one important difference between Open CASCADE and other kernels: it is open source and freely downloadable. This made it possible to convert its modules into Python modules. This means that you can use the Open CASCADE modules in the friendly Python environment from now on. One of the advantages is that you can learn how to use this excellent library much more quickly. The Open CASCADE sample problems were programmed in Python using Robin Dunn's nice wxPython library (though you can use other packages as well like pyQt/PyKDE, Java (Jython) or PythonWin e.g.) as a GUI, for your convenience. If you want to know more about how Open CASCADE can be used in Python, please click on the Gallery button.

 

    

 

                                                                                                                                   

 

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                 Completely rewritten version. Based on OC5.0 from now on.

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