[cgma-dev] Introduction and IGES Question

[Jane Hu]

On Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 3:45 PM, Tim Tautges <tautges at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:

>
>
> On 12/12/2011 03:27 PM, Boyd Tidwell wrote:
>
>> Hello all,
>>
>>   First, let me introduce myself.  My name is Boyd Tidwell. I work for
>> ETI/csimsoft in American Fork, Utah.  I am currently updating the OCC
>> code to run in Cubit.  I have updated the Cubit CGM code to match  OCC
>> and am currently testing functionality and have fixed a few bugs.  I
>> am about to merge my OCC 6.5.1 source with the 6.5.2 source released
>> today and then continue testing. You will probably see questions from
>> me now and then on this list but I will try to study and research any
>> problems extensively so as not to ask a lot of simple and/or silly
>> questions.
>>
>
> Welcome Boyd, we're glad to have you and even more glad to see you guys
> moving forward testing this.
>
>
>
>> Now for my first question:
>>
>>   Randy  Morris was told that there is a "better than the open source
>> version" of the OCC IGES code/libraries available for a one time
>> license fee of $5,000. Is anyone aware of such a thing?  Does such a
>> version exist?  The implication is that he (csimsoft) may be
>> interested in buying a license after hearing the details.
>>
>>
> The company maintaining OCC releases a variety of extra libraries for
> extra license fees, including ones for meshing, I think.  Also, those with
> maintenance contracts with them get every major release, instead of every
> other one that get released open source.  As for us, since our interest in
> OCC is motivated more by the open source issue than anything else, by
> definition we're not interested in the extra libs.
>
>
>  Another question:  As I fix bugs that do not currently have a fix or
>> patch in the OCC repository, what is the mechanism for submitting the
>> fix to be reviewed and potentially included in the base code?
>>
>>
> If you're talking about patches to OCC itself, their user forums are the
> place to go (Jane, isn't that where you've submitted our patches?)  I think
> we've mostly had good success submitting patches to them, though not 100%
> (I think one of the patches in our set for 6.5 was also in 6.3).
>

Welcome Boyd. Yes, I usually submit the bugs through
Opencascade.org/org/forum/ as well as the fixes. They're usually pretty
quick to accept bugs, and takes time to verify and add in the fixes. Good
Luck

Jane

>
> If you're talking about patches to CGM/OCC, you can either send them to us
> to incorporate, or if there are a lot of them or they're more major, let's
> talk and we can potentially add you to the developer list and let you
> commit them directly.  Same goes to anybody else who might be listening and
> would be interested in helping us improve the OCC port.
>
> - tim
>
>
>  Thanks very much,
>>
>>    Boyd Tidwell
>>    Elemental Technologies Inc.
>>    Computational Simulation Software LLC.
>>
>>
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