[PLUG] The GIMP for Mechanical CAD?
Eric Wilhelm
scratchcomputing at gmail.com
Mon Jul 10 08:41:46 UTC 2006
What's up with this subject line?
# from Rogan Creswick
# on Friday 07 July 2006 06:21 pm:
>Inkscape ...
>It would be a better starting point if one were to build a CAD app.
If one were to build a CAD app, one would go nowhere near SVG.
PythonCAD is doing some interesting stuff, and has a less silly
interface than qcad. There was a perlcad, but it seems to have
stalled. IME, the worst part is getting a right-side-up coordinate
system in any GUI toolkit. Tk::Zinc is interesting, but still clunky
WRT fonts. I was thinking a good Perl binding to the Cairo canvas
would do the trick for CAD::Drawing, but I haven't had a chance to look
at it lately.
--Eric
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"Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler."
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