Translations:History/4/en

"Start January 2001 by me as so called GOM (Graphical Object Modeler), with the Idea in mind to use Qt, Python and Cas.CADE, an commercial CAD-Kernel I used in projects in Daimler this time. CasCade gone open source shortly before so the time seams right to try a move in the (at this time) empty space of open source cad. I had a two year experience with OpenCascade in a project called QSpect and was at the end the main software designer. I learned a lot in the field of 3D and CAD programming. I was also influenced by Catia V5 and its very special User and programming interface.... sf.net registration 2002-03-17 19:42 as FreeCAD. I couldn't think of an better name. Im very bad on names.... April 2003 Werner Meyer was one of the colleges in the QSpect project switched to company called Imetric. So the contact to Imetric was very promising since they searched for a new 3D software platform for their 3D sensors. So 2005 Imetric donated most of the Mesh module to FreeCAD and OpenSource and use since then FreeCAD as basis for their sensor system software. And Werner is since then a very active part of FreeCAD. 2005 after one year of struggle I decided to rip of the OpenCascade document framework and replace it with an own implementation. So at the end we use only the CAD kernel of OpenCascade and not the rest of the Framework. 2007 was another interesting milestone. We switched to QT4 and has there fore the LGPL and a lot of work (which did mostly Werner)"