Using python for a CAD program

baalbek rcs at bgoark.no
Wed May 24 06:08:05 EDT 2006


Paddy wrote:
> Hi Baalbek,
> Athouh they are database editors, they are not relational database
> editors. Relational database engines fit some type of problems but
> others have found that RDBMS don't fit CAD data. They are just too slow
> and add complexity in mapping the 'natural CAD data formats' to the
> RDBMS table format.

Well, considering that most CAD programs (at least those I'm familiar 
with) structures its data in a very similar fashion as a RDBMS, AND 
given the advanced object/relational mapping tools we have today, how 
hard could it be?

The CAD system does not even have to be a straight client-server, but a 
three-tiered system where the application server do batch 
update/fetching of the data for efficiency.


Regards,
Baalbek



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