[Ktechlab-devel] A random thought that made me smile (and another point in favour of GUI separation)

[P.J.G. Long]

On Nov 15 2009, Matthew Ayres wrote:

 The gEDA/gscheme project has moved on a lot, it would be nice to have 
Ktechlab inter link with gscheme and pcb
  
  Regards

>I've been thinking a lot lately about simulating this, that and the other
>with tools like KTechLab.  How nice it would be to have CAD-like features.
>Then a thought hit me...
>
>There are several projects out there right now, trying to bring quality CAD
>to FOSS.  Think how useful a KTechLab back-end, stripped of its GUI, could
>be to such projects.  Imagine a 3D CAD project with optoelectronic
>components, linked into ICs or whatever.  Now imagine that the program
>rendering that has linked into the KTechLab back-end and made those
>components work, implementing a little extra code of its own to create a
>realistic simulation of optoelectronic components interacting in a 3D
>setting.
>
>It made me smile, so I thought maybe others here would like the thought.
>

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