Everything about Open Cascade totally explained
Open CASCADE is a software development platform for 3D
CAD,
CAM,
CAE, etc. that's developed and supported by
Open CASCADE S.A.S.
. It is available under the "Open CASCADE Technology Public License" which the developer claims to be
"LGPL-like with certain differences". Despite this claim, it isn't
listed as compatible with the LGPL license by the publisher of the
LGPL, the
Free Software Foundation.
History
CASCADE was originally developed in the early 90s by Matra Datavision, editor of
Euclid CAD CAM Software as the underlying infrastructure for its future version
Euclid Quantum. However, as the company abandoned software development to concentrate on services, the software branch was sold to
Dassault Systemes, editor of competing
CATIA in
1998.
Matra Datavision decided to publish its CASCADE infrastructure under an Open Source model and renamed it
Open CASCADE. The software is from that time managed by the
Open CASCADE SAS which was acquired in 2003 by
Principia, a french Service Provider corporation.
Object Libraries
Foundation Classes
Packages: TKernel TKMath
Modeling Data
Modeling Algorithms
Visualization
Application Framework
Data Exchange
DRAW
The OpenCascade test harness.
Workshop Organization Kit (WOK)
WOK (Workshop Organization Kit) is Open CASCADE development environment, which allows a large numbers of developers to work on a variety of products simultaneously. Within the framework of this environment developers can produce multiple versions of products for various hardware and software platforms, including versions corresponding to specific marketing requirements. At the same time WOK enables to reuse software components with a maximum possible effect. In other words, WOK is designed to facilitate industrial scale development.
Moreover WOK allows to work with CDL (component definition language), which is the Open CASCADE programming platform. Some components, which CDL enables you to create, are specific to the Open CASCADE application architecture.
Further Information
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