Using python for a CAD program

David Cuthbert dacut at kanga.org
Mon May 22 10:56:41 EDT 2006


baalbek wrote:
> David Cuthbert wrote:
>> This does not mean the design itself should be stored as an RDBMS.  As 
>> I've stated previously, CAD data (both electrical and, it appears, 
>> mechanical) does not lend itself to RDBMS relationship modeling.
> 
> I simply do not agree with this.
> 
> A CAD program (like Autocad) is nothing
> but an advanced database editor: the program loads data from a binary 
> file and creates its object (in memory) from the tables that it reads 
> from the file on the disk.

Well, then, good luck with this.  Let us know when you've rediscovered 
that simply structuring data in a table does not make an RDBMS.




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