[PythonCAD] Consistency in operations in PythonCAD

2005-12-13 Thread Art Haas
Hi. The recent discussion and patches regarding changing move operations to require first selecting the entities and then specifying the displacement(s) warrants more discussion. For move operations, I think that the proposed changes are worthwhile, but I'd like to hear from people familiar with o

Re: [PythonCAD] Consistency in operations in PythonCAD

2005-12-13 Thread Petko Yotov
Hello, Art, On Autocad and Intellicad ou can perform the action both ways: either first chosing an action (ex. move) and then the program asks to select objects, then select vector or 2 points; or first selecting objects and then chosing the action (keyboard or menu), then the program asks to s

Re: [PythonCAD] Consistency in operations in PythonCAD

2005-12-13 Thread Rafael Villar Burke
Art Haas wrote: >Hi. > >The recent discussion and patches regarding changing move operations to >require first selecting the entities and then specifying the >displacement(s) warrants more discussion. For move operations, I think >that the proposed changes are worthwhile, but I'd like to hear from

Re: [PythonCAD] problem to launch PythonCAD

2005-12-13 Thread Neuman
On Monday 12 December 2005 02:29 am, Art Haas wrote: > On Sat, Dec 10, 2005 at 10:52:23PM +, Neuman wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > I'm quite new with Linux and Python (so please be tolerant with my > > noobie's questions), I was searching a CAD program released under GPL and > > PythonCAD seems to

Re: [PythonCAD] problem to launch PythonCAD

2005-12-13 Thread Art Haas
On Tue, Dec 13, 2005 at 08:08:59PM +, Neuman wrote: > On Monday 12 December 2005 02:29 am, Art Haas wrote: > > On Sat, Dec 10, 2005 at 10:52:23PM +, Neuman wrote: > > > Hi all, > > > > > > I'm quite new with Linux and Python (so please be tolerant with my > > > noobie's questions), I was se

Re: [PythonCAD] Consistency in operations in PythonCAD

2005-12-13 Thread Wilbert Knol
> but I'd like to hear from > people familiar with other CAD packages, particularly AutoCAD, how > similar operations are performed. Does the program require you to select > entities first, or do you start some move command mode and then specify > which entities will be moved? I can't recall how