On Tue, Jan 18, 2005 at 02:58:47PM +0100, Rafael Villar Burke wrote: > Art Haas wrote: > > >What do you want an 'offset' command to do? I'm a little vague as to > >what this is supposed to do ... > > > >Art > > > Offset is used to create a copy of an entity at a certain distance. It's > very useful to draw grids, borders with some thickness, walls, etc... > > For instance, if you have the outer silhuette of a window and you want > to create an inner shape that completes the window's frame you could use > an offset command and get drawn a new rectangle that's parallel to the > first one but some inches towards its inner side. > > So, the data needed to offset a shape is a distance and a side (giving a > point) or just a point to pass through. Both methods are useful, as you > sometimes want to keep a distance while others you don't mind but want > to pass through some special point.
That sounds like a useful feature. PythonCAD currently can create construction lines that are parallel and offset from a given construction line, so adding some offset/copy feature would complement the current ability nicely. > Regards and thanks for your hard work on PythonCAD, Thanks. Art -- Man once surrendering his reason, has no remaining guard against absurdities the most monstrous, and like a ship without rudder, is the sport of every wind. -Thomas Jefferson to James Smith, 1822 _______________________________________________ PythonCAD mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pythoncad
