Re: [LAD] [OT] vector drawing software

2008-08-15 Thread Michelle Konzack
Hi *, Am 2008-08-08 09:37:39, schrieb Emanuel Rumpf: 2008/8/7 Thorsten Wilms [EMAIL PROTECTED]: However, for precise geometrical shapes, Blender is the wrong tool. It can be done to some degree, but it is just painful compared to a decent CAD tool. Here's a comunity, that tries to

Re: [LAD] [OT] vector drawing software

2008-08-08 Thread Thorsten Wilms
On Thu, 2008-08-07 at 20:17 -0400, nescivi wrote: Do you know any decent open source CAD tools? I haven't yet found one I am completely content with Nope. There's http://brlcad.org/, which looks like much-is-possible, but-everything-is-damn-hard. -- Thorsten Wilms thorwil's design for

Re: [LAD] [OT] vector drawing software

2008-08-08 Thread Bengt Gördén
Den Friday 08 August 2008 03.52.47 skrev Thomas Vecchione: 3D Cad tools unfortuanatly I haven't found any I particularly like among the open source projects. Personally I am using QCad for 2D and Sketchup for 3D. I use Blender for organic modleing and rendering though. I'm one of those

Re: [LAD] [OT] vector drawing software

2008-08-08 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 08 August 2008, Emanuel Rumpf wrote: 2008/8/7 Thorsten Wilms [EMAIL PROTECTED]: However, for precise geometrical shapes, Blender is the wrong tool. It can be done to some degree, but it is just painful compared to a decent CAD tool. Here's a comunity, that tries to extend Blender for

Re: [LAD] [OT] vector drawing software

2008-08-07 Thread Justin Smith
On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 5:42 PM, nescivi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 29 July 2008 09:05:46 Fons Adriaensen wrote: Anyone knows a good vector drawing program for Linux ? Absolute requirements are: - Lines, arrows, boxes, circles, etc. - Linewidths and styles, colors, filling. - Text

Re: [LAD] [OT] vector drawing software

2008-08-07 Thread nescivi
On Thursday 07 August 2008 13:58:33 Justin Smith wrote: Actually, I am looking for some 3D software for drawing 3D structures. Eventual output format needed is STL... sincerely, Marije http://www.ualberta.ca/~cwant/blender/stl.py is a plugin to export STL from blender, which is a

Re: [LAD] [OT] vector drawing software

2008-08-07 Thread Thorsten Wilms
On Thu, 2008-08-07 at 14:03 -0400, nescivi wrote: At first sight it seems more geared to 3D modelling for animation graphics, rather than for making realworld objects. I need to model some things in order to print them on a rapid prototyping machine... Is Blender a suitable candidate for

Re: [LAD] [OT] vector drawing software

2008-08-07 Thread nescivi
Hiho, On Thursday 07 August 2008 14:18:39 Thorsten Wilms wrote: On Thu, 2008-08-07 at 14:03 -0400, nescivi wrote: At first sight it seems more geared to 3D modelling for animation graphics, rather than for making realworld objects. I need to model some things in order to print them on a

Re: [LAD] [OT] vector drawing software

2008-08-07 Thread Thomas Vecchione
3D Cad tools unfortuanatly I haven't found any I particularly like among the open source projects. Personally I am using QCad for 2D and Sketchup for 3D. I use Blender for organic modleing and rendering though. Seablade On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 6:17 PM, nescivi [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [LAD] [OT] vector drawing software

2008-07-30 Thread MarcOChapeau
On Tue, 29 Jul 2008 17:15:52 +0200, Pau Arumí [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On dt, 2008-07-29 at 16:16 +0200, MarcOChapeau wrote: I'd say PDF/PS export is not there yet. PNG has always been there but not JPEG. Yes it's there (I'm using version 0.46 - Apr 2008) I actually use it as the preferred

Re: [LAD] [OT] vector drawing software

2008-07-30 Thread Fons Adriaensen
On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 01:43:00PM -0600, Thomas Vecchione wrote: I'll be honest in that I personally find QCad to be invaluable for 2D drafting. I am not sure exactly how you are planning on using the vector drawing program is part of the problem. In the past I have also used Inkscape for

Re: [LAD] [OT] vector drawing software

2008-07-30 Thread Erik de Castro Lopo
Fons Adriaensen wrote: * Inkscape. After two hours of trying I still can't draw a simple rectangle. It gets filled (in blue) and all attempts to change that have failed. Draw the rectangle (it will be blue), then go to the Object menu and choose Fill and Stroke. In the Fill pane, wind the

Re: [LAD] [OT] vector drawing software

2008-07-30 Thread Fons Adriaensen
On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 10:00:28PM +1000, Erik de Castro Lopo wrote: Fons Adriaensen wrote: * Inkscape. After two hours of trying I still can't draw a simple rectangle. It gets filled (in blue) and all attempts to change that have failed. Draw the rectangle (it will be blue), then

Re: [LAD] [OT] vector drawing software

2008-07-30 Thread Adrien DANIEL
On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 1:29 PM, Fons Adriaensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: * Xfig crashed within five minutes. Wow ! I used to work with Xfig for longtime (now I use Inkscape), and I am surprised that it offered you a crash (particularly so rapidly) ! Anyway, my advise would be to take the time

Re: [LAD] [OT] vector drawing software

2008-07-30 Thread Thomas Vecchione
Ok that explains things a bit at least, thank you Fons. You are correct in that there are no connections(I think are what you are looking for rather than paths which I think of from Gimp/Photoshop/Inkscape as a bit different in QCad. I actually used to think that was a problem, but after doing

Re: [LAD] [OT] vector drawing software

2008-07-30 Thread Kjetil S. Matheussen
Fons Adriaensen: Inkscape lookd more and more as some GUI interface to Cairo. ATM I can write the Cairo code a lot faster than using the GUI... I was just about to suggest writing Cairo code. :-) pgf/tikz is probably faster than programming cairo though. But what would be really nice would

Re: [LAD] [OT] vector drawing software

2008-07-30 Thread Pau Arumí
On dc, 2008-07-30 at 15:25 +0200, Fons Adriaensen wrote: On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 10:00:28PM +1000, Erik de Castro Lopo wrote: Fons Adriaensen wrote: * Inkscape. After two hours of trying I still can't draw a simple rectangle. It gets filled (in blue) and all attempts to change

Re: [LAD] [OT] vector drawing software

2008-07-30 Thread Joshua Boyd
On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 10:00:28PM +1000, Erik de Castro Lopo wrote: Fons Adriaensen wrote: * Inkscape. After two hours of trying I still can't draw a simple rectangle. It gets filled (in blue) and all attempts to change that have failed. Draw the rectangle (it will be blue), then

[LAD] [OT] vector drawing software

2008-07-29 Thread Fons Adriaensen
Anyone knows a good vector drawing program for Linux ? Absolute requirements are: - Lines, arrows, boxes, circles, etc. - Linewidths and styles, colors, filling. - Text - PDF or PS export. - PNG and JPEG import (no bitmap editing required). - Accuracy. I've been using TGIF for years, but I'm

Re: [LAD] [OT] vector drawing software

2008-07-29 Thread Paul Davis
On Tue, 2008-07-29 at 15:05 +0200, Fons Adriaensen wrote: Anyone knows a good vector drawing program for Linux ? Absolute requirements are: - Lines, arrows, boxes, circles, etc. - Linewidths and styles, colors, filling. - Text - PDF or PS export. - PNG and JPEG import (no bitmap

Re: [LAD] [OT] vector drawing software

2008-07-29 Thread Dave Phillips
Fons Adriaensen wrote: Anyone knows a good vector drawing program for Linux ? Absolute requirements are: - Lines, arrows, boxes, circles, etc. - Linewidths and styles, colors, filling. - Text - PDF or PS export. - PNG and JPEG import (no bitmap editing required). - Accuracy. I've been

Re: [LAD] [OT] vector drawing software

2008-07-29 Thread MarcOChapeau
On Tue, 29 Jul 2008 09:57:03 -0400, Paul Davis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 2008-07-29 at 15:05 +0200, Fons Adriaensen wrote: Anyone knows a good vector drawing program for Linux ? Absolute requirements are: - Lines, arrows, boxes, circles, etc. - Linewidths and styles, colors,

Re: [LAD] [OT] vector drawing software

2008-07-29 Thread Adrien DANIEL
On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 3:05 PM, Fons Adriaensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anyone knows a good vector drawing program for Linux ? Absolute requirements are: - Lines, arrows, boxes, circles, etc. - Linewidths and styles, colors, filling. - Text - PDF or PS export. - PNG and JPEG import (no

Re: [LAD] [OT] vector drawing software

2008-07-29 Thread Ray Rashif
I don't know what happened to this one: http://www.xaraxtreme.org/ Because this one doesn't exist: http://www.xaraxtreme.org/download/ ___ Linux-audio-dev mailing list Linux-audio-dev@lists.linuxaudio.org

Re: [LAD] [OT] vector drawing software

2008-07-29 Thread Denis Sbragion
On Tue, July 29, 2008 15:05, Fons Adriaensen wrote: Anyone knows a good vector drawing program for Linux ? OpenOffice.org Draw? -- Denis Sbragion InfoTecna Tel: +39 0362 805396, Fax: +39 0362 805404 URL: http://www.infotecna.it

Re: [LAD] [OT] vector drawing software

2008-07-29 Thread Pau Arumí
On dt, 2008-07-29 at 16:16 +0200, MarcOChapeau wrote: On Tue, 29 Jul 2008 09:57:03 -0400, Paul Davis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 2008-07-29 at 15:05 +0200, Fons Adriaensen wrote: Anyone knows a good vector drawing program for Linux ? Absolute requirements are: - Lines,

Re: [LAD] [OT] vector drawing software

2008-07-29 Thread Kjetil S. Matheussen
Fons Adriaensen: Anyone knows a good vector drawing program for Linux ? Absolute requirements are: - Lines, arrows, boxes, circles, etc. - Linewidths and styles, colors, filling. - Text - PDF or PS export. - PNG and JPEG import (no bitmap editing required). - Accuracy. I've been

Re: [LAD] [OT] vector drawing software

2008-07-29 Thread Dennis Schulmeister
Hi Fons, On Tue, 2008-07-29 at 15:05 +0200, Fons Adriaensen wrote: Anyone knows a good vector drawing program for Linux ? I'm surprised nobody has mentioned Gnome Dia yet. It's a fine program and I'm using it for all my vector diagrams since years. In my opinion there are only a few things

Re: [LAD] [OT] vector drawing software

2008-07-29 Thread Thomas Vecchione
I'll be honest in that I personally find QCad to be invaluable for 2D drafting. I am not sure exactly how you are planning on using the vector drawing program is part of the problem. In the past I have also used Inkscape for web design, and OpenOffice Draw for some things as well. I, like