Re: [OT] Mac CAD software
Re: [OT] Mac CAD software
- Subject: Re: [OT] Mac CAD software
- From: "John C. Welch" <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 19 Oct 2004 09:02:24 -0500
On 10/19/04 8:00 AM, "Courtney Schwartz" <email@hidden> wrote:
>> LabVIEW is an interesting one. I'm not that experienced with it so I
>> don't
>> know how good it is as a circuit simulator, but I imagine it would be
>> as
>> good at it as anything else.
>
> A friend of mine does nothing but complain about the limits of LabView
> all day. He works with high-powered lasers; apparently they use LabView
> because it has the drivers to operate said lasers. However, he says
> that it doesn't have recursion, he's found a test case where 0
> evaluates to 1 (!!!), and their idea of "object-oriented" is to have a
> bunch of graphical boxes that you drag around while "programming".
>
> His solution in many cases was to learn enough C++ to roll his own, or
> to correct LabView behavior.
>
> Doesn't sound very promising to me.
>
> (Plus, they're an all-Windows lab... no idea if LabView has a Mac
> version.)
They used to, but they seemed to have dropped out of the Mac market with OS
X...from what I can tell on their site, their simulation products are all
Windows based.
john
--
There is no problem that women have with men that cannot be solved with 2 AA
batteries, and a small, unbalanced electric motor.
john c welch
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