[Talk] Drawing tool help

[Con Zymaris]

On Mon, Apr 07, 2003 at 08:34:48AM +0800, Luigi wrote:
> What I am looking for is a drawing tool that I can write data out from
> to then process the properties of the objects in the drawing.
> 
> An example will help:
> I wish to draw 4 line in the shape of a box.
> I then wish to out put that data through a process which is feed
> something like:
> Ltop
> Lleft
> Lbottom
> Lright
> Joint-ltop+lright
> Joint-ltop+lleft
> and so on.
> 
> Basically I expect to draw the items and to do that I would have to pick
> one from a set of objects I have set up with my properties. When I out
> put what was drawn the nature of the different objects comes out and I
> can then process them.
> 
> The sort of thing I need to do with the objects is when I have a
> Joint-ltop+lright then that joint will need to have machining of a
> certain type done to it. I will also need to obtain an object of type
> Ltop and one of type Lright so that they can be machined to fit etc.
> 
> I think what I need is something in the cad type tools. I looked at Gimp
> and OpenOffice-draw and I don't think they will do.
> 
> The primary consideration is the out put and my ability to interface to
> that, then will come how good the tool itself is to use. There is no
> existing input data so that is no problem and I have not written any of
> the post processing yet so the tool can really be anything.
> 

Luigi,

I'm not sure if I follow your requirements correctly, but if you are
looking at programmatically manipulating vector drawing data after it has
been written to file, take a look at the drawing package that ships woth
KOfffice. This tool can export to Scalabale Vector Graphics files, which
are XML descriptions of your drawing, and well understood and supported by
add-on programmatic manipulation tools.

Ref: 
	http://www.koffice.org/
	http://www.koffice.org/karbon/screenshots.phtml
	http://www.w3.org/Graphics/SVG/SVG-Implementations


Cheers,

Con Zymaris
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