House Design With X1000?

I was thinking about CAD programs for AmigaOS4. Programs that could make use of the unique hardwares of X1000...

Are there programs where you could design your own house with advanced 3D graphic? Would be very interesting.

@Helgis
blender? Some years ago I used Imagine for modelling
my own house to choose some furnishings (I hope it's
the right term)

@Helgis

I have a program for my PC that does this.

http://www.chiefarchitect.com/

Basically what you need is a library of items, colors and patterns available to use in real life. (real-life paint colors and real-life patterns such as hardwood, carpeting, wallpapers, etc.) And it would be convenient to be able to easily resize items, such as have a cabinet object which can be resized to various standard or even custom widths.

I'm not really sure what unique properties of X1000 would make any difference to CAD or house design. I don't expect Xcore would be useful for CAD software, we do not have any GPGPU support for maths acceleration, other OSes do graphics compositing, there's not really anything that would make a CAD program (house or other kind) any different than any other computer, it's just a port to PPC and OS4.

@Helgis

Blender might be the best 3D CAD SW for AOS4 at the moment.
We also have also good selection of 68k apps, like Real3D, Aladdin 4D, Lightwave, Imagine, Tornado3D, etc, etc.

Not sure if Amiga version of blender support the import of autocad files, but I would be interested in playing with my own house design, once I get it converted to blender.

btw. I do not think x1000 has anything "unique" for 3D CAD yet, but perhaps some adapter on xorro slot could deliver the ultimate connection to these:
http://technabob.com/blog/wp-content/ ... regrine_gesture_glove.jpg
http://www.atelier-us.com/upload/2009/02/ipoint_3d.jpg
http://gizmodo.com/assets/resources/2007/06/3dglove.jpg
http://www.nootnatdit.net/blog/wp-con ... /02/virtual-reality-8.jpg
http://www.inition.co.uk/inition/imag ... glove_5dt_wirelesskit.jpg
http://www.streamhead.com/wp-content/ ... 08/04/virtual_reality.jpg

etc...

And example house renderings by Blender:
http://www.google.fi/images?um=1&hl=f ... aql=&oq=&gs_rfai=&start=0


It must require a little practice before the 3D house model looks like this: http://www.wikiwak.com/image/Lone+House.jpg

@Helgis

If you want to do real professional CAD work regarding house and building layout, then there is this:

http://aminet.net/package/gfx/3d/Cycas178_EN

It was commercial and is free now. It works like a charm on AmigaOS 4.1u1.

@pvanni and all

Then Blender should be the program, i guess.

Thank you very much!

@cha05e90

CAD for House Design :)

Thanks, this should be useful, i guess.

@KimmoK

Thank you for the several links of how to use Blender! That had me very interested. Look complicated to build such styled house designs, but it's nice to see that Blender makes this possible. Will definitely learn to use that
program, as well as taking a look on that CAD program
found from OS4Depot.net..

Again, thank you everybody. These should be extremely useful when the time comes.

@cha05e90

Hi I tried cycas, but cannot get past the register screen. Where did they put the free license number?

@ddni

When I updated to AmigaOS 4.1 FE, Cycas stopped working. I had to reinstall it to get it to work again. It may be something as simple as Cycas fonts being in the Fonts: drawer.

@Helgis

I thought the same, but designing a garage
Apparently Cycos is the right tool, but it is not very easy to use without reading the docs first.

@ddni

The serial number is in the readme on the About this release page: 548200795
Just fill in some name and this number and it will start.
I fixed the html doc which was encrypted/compressed somehow, and with nowrap html tables making it unreadable.
Cycos help

I'm sorry to say, in my experience the best CAD software
one can run on AmigaOS is MiniCAD for the classic macs...

http://macintoshgarden.org/apps/minicad-7

It used to work brilliantly in Shapeshifter - better than
on any classic mac (ppc or 68k). The Amiga multitasks.

Unfortunately Basilisk on OS4 is unreliable and so MiniCAD
wont run in there.

OTOH, Shapeshifter still runs within OS4 UAE, but it's
a challenge to get in or out of the virtual Mac within the
virtual Amiga.

It would help if there was networking support in OS4 UAE.
Then one could just FTP in/out of the mac within.

Good luck,

PJS