GEOMCAL for BricsCAD is available

Thomas Berger
Thomas Berger
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Free download of CADCAL.DES from www.archtools.de/cadcal.des

Just download the CADCAL.DES file (only 50 kB) and load it into BricsCAD (i.e. with the APPLOAD command). You can call the math interpreter wit command CAL (also transparently while running another command with 'CAL), and you can use math expressions in LISP using the syntax (CAL "<expression>"). Free usage allowed untill march 31 2010.

CADCAL does the very same in the very same way as does GEOMCAL in AutoCAD. You can use complex math while you are drawing, thus avoiding many complicated help constructions and becomming much more productive. The program is still in beta mode, but it's mostly the documentation that is not yet finished. You can call a mini-documentation from the BricsCAD command line with the command CADCAL, but if you have access to the Autodesk documentation for geomcal, you may just use this for CADCAL too.

Comments

  • Shun-Hsiang Hsiao
    Shun-Hsiang Hsiao

    I got an error message when I load it:

    [syntax-error <"..."> at [READ]]

     

    My Bricscad version is 9.3.10 zh_TW.

  • Thomas Berger
    Thomas Berger

    > I got an error message when I load it:
    > [syntax-error <"..."> at [READ]]

     

    Hi,

    did you have the most recent beta version vof CADCAL? You can download it from http://www.archtools.de/cadcal.des.

    If this does not help: could you please try the most current BricsCAD version? I developed and tested CADCAL in version 9.9.13 build 16003, and it loads and runs fine here.

    Or maybe it depend's on the language version. Could you please type at the BricsCAD command prompt:

    (ver) <ENTER>

    and

    (getvar "acadver") <ENTER>

    and tell my what BricsCAD returns?

    Thanks for your help

    Tom

     

  • Shun-Hsiang Hsiao
    Shun-Hsiang Hsiao

    : (ver)
    "LispEx : Version 2.0.1 (zh)"
    : (getvar "acadver")
    "17.0 Bricscad"

  • Thomas Berger
    Thomas Berger

    > : (ver)
    > "LispEx : Version 2.0.1 (zh)"
    > : (getvar "acadver")
    > "17.0 Bricscad"

    Hello,

    as I told I deveoped and tested with a newer BricsCAD version which returns "LispEx : Version 2.1 (de)" for (ver). Did you download the newest BricsCAD version and test CADCAL with it?

    Does the error really occur when you load cadcal.des into BricsCAD? Or does it occur when you use the CAL command and enter an expression?

     

     

  • Thomas Berger
    Thomas Berger

    CADCAL - the Geomcal clone is ready. Lot's of additional functions.

    English manual can be viewed here: http://www.archtools.de/cadcal.html

    Download from http://www.archtools.de/cadcal.zip

  • Jacek Wołczyński
    Jacek Wołczyński
    Hi, is your module still available? The link seems not to work.
  • Thomas Berger
    Thomas Berger
    Hi,

    I'm sorry, CADCAL is not longer available to the public. The source including all rights has been sold to another software company which wants to keep it for herself.
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