From ahaas at airmail.net Wed Mar 9 02:48:31 2005 From: ahaas at airmail.net (Art Haas) Date: Wed Mar 9 02:48:33 2005 Subject: [PythonCAD] March status report Message-ID: <20050309014831.GD19358@artsapartment.org> Hi. I'd written last month that things would be hectic for me, and now things should start to settle down to a more usual non-computer life, so my work on PythonCAD should ramp up again in the coming weeks. There will probably be a release at the end of March with the scripting changes and whatever work manifests itself in the coming weeks. 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 From brent at monte-graniti.com.au Wed Mar 16 06:04:40 2005 From: brent at monte-graniti.com.au (Brent Delany) Date: Wed Mar 16 17:18:49 2005 Subject: [PythonCAD] DXF reader Message-ID: G'day Chris, I was just hoping to download a dxf reader, as one of our granite kitchen bench top installers now emails me drawings in dxf format. As I have never had any need for CAD or a dxf reader previously could you please point me in the right direction as to where to get this from? I gather if you have written a dxf reader program could I use this? Looking forward to hearing your thoughts. Cheers, Brent Monte Graniti Australia Pty Ltd PO Box 685 Lutwyche Brisbane, Qld Australia 4030 Ph +61 07 3857 7144 Fax +61 07 3857 0968 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mail.python.org/pipermail/pythoncad/attachments/20050316/a0887bab/attachment.html From csomerlot at gmail.com Wed Mar 16 17:27:18 2005 From: csomerlot at gmail.com (Chris Somerlot) Date: Wed Mar 16 17:27:28 2005 Subject: [PythonCAD] DXF reader In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <9a8f06705031608272b4f37d9@mail.gmail.com> Our dxf reader (actually part of the uber converter project, at http://ericwilhelm.homeip.net/uber-converter/) is too preliminary to use. If all you need is a dxf reader, I would point you to QCad (http://www.ribbonsoft.com/qcad.html) On Wed, 16 Mar 2005 15:04:40 +1000, Brent Delany wrote: > > > G'day Chris, > > I was just hoping to download a dxf reader, as one of our granite kitchen > bench top installers now emails me drawings in dxf format. As I have never > had any need for CAD or a dxf reader previously could you please point me in > the right direction as to where to get this from? > > I gather if you have written a dxf reader program could I use this? > > Looking forward to hearing your thoughts. > > Cheers, > Brent > > Monte Graniti Australia Pty Ltd > PO Box 685 Lutwyche > Brisbane, Qld Australia 4030 > Ph +61 07 3857 7144 > Fax +61 07 3857 0968 > _______________________________________________ > PythonCAD mailing list > PythonCAD@python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pythoncad > > > From ewilhelm at sbcglobal.net Wed Mar 16 18:40:48 2005 From: ewilhelm at sbcglobal.net (Eric Wilhelm) Date: Wed Mar 16 18:36:01 2005 Subject: [PythonCAD] DXF reader In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <200503161140.48625.ewilhelm@sbcglobal.net> # The following was supposedly scribed by # Brent Delany # on Tuesday 15 March 2005 11:04 pm: >I was just hoping to download a dxf reader, as one of our granite > kitchen bench top installers now emails me drawings in dxf format. As > I have never had any need for CAD or a dxf reader previously could > you please point me in the right direction as to where to get this > from? Do you just want to display/print the dxf? If so, then I believe that open office or qcad would be the way to go for now. --Eric -- "You can't win. You can't break even. You can't quit." -- Ginsberg's Restatement of the Three Laws of Thermodynamics --------------------------------------------- http://scratchcomputing.com --------------------------------------------- From ahaas at airmail.net Fri Mar 18 18:46:29 2005 From: ahaas at airmail.net (Art Haas) Date: Fri Mar 18 18:46:38 2005 Subject: [PythonCAD] [ANNOUNCE] Twenty-third release of PythonCAD now available Message-ID: <20050318174629.GB4728@artsapartment.org> I'm pleased to announce the twenty-third development release of PythonCAD, a CAD package for open-source software users. As the name implies, PythonCAD is written entirely in Python. The goal of this project is to create a fully scriptable drafting program that will match and eventually exceed features found in commercial CAD software. PythonCAD is released under the GNU Public License (GPL). PythonCAD requires Python 2.2 or newer. The interface is GTK 2.0 based, and uses the PyGTK module for interfacing to GTK. The design of PythonCAD is built around the idea of separating the interface from the back end as much as possible. By doing this, it is hoped that both GNOME and KDE interfaces can be added to PythonCAD through usage of the appropriate Python module. Addition of other PythonCAD interfaces will depend on the availability of a Python module for that particular interface and developer interest and action. The twenty-third release contains a several bug fixes, the largest of which is the correct restoration of dimension string text properties when the deletion of a dimension is undone. Another fix included in this release is the removal of some deprecated constants flagged by the 2.6 PyGTK release when they are encountered. This release also features the beginnings of the scripting enhancements planned for PythonCAD. The evaluation of user-entered expressions is now more powerful by utilizing Python's exec keyword and invoking the eval() command with an argument storing variables to be utilized during expression evaluation. More enhancements and improvements in expression evaluation and overall scriptability will appear in future releases. A mailing list for the development and use of PythonCAD is available. Visit the following page for information about subscribing and viewing the mailing list archive: http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pythoncad Visit the PythonCAD web site for more information about what PythonCAD does and aims to be: http://www.pythoncad.org/ Come and join me in developing PythonCAD into a world class drafting program! Art Haas -- 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 From ahaas at airmail.net Fri Mar 18 19:29:44 2005 From: ahaas at airmail.net (Art Haas) Date: Fri Mar 18 19:29:48 2005 Subject: [PythonCAD] Post twenth-third release notes Message-ID: <20050318182944.GD4728@artsapartment.org> Hi. The latest official release is out, and so once again the time has come to figure out what to work on for the next release. There are fewer changes in the last release than I would have preferred, but fixing the dimension un-deletion problem was stomping a bug that I am glad to see gone, and the addition of exec and eval() enhancements are also nice features. The deprecation of gtk.TRUE and gtk.FALSE in the 2.6 PyGTK releases, though, spurred me to make the release now as this version of PyGTK is in Debian unstable and most likely will be in Fedora Core 4, plus anyone that builds PyGTK from source could be using this release. Running PythonCAD and seeing all the deprecation warning messages would get annoying. My initial plans are to continue working on enhancing the scripting abilities in the program, as well as providing some notes and examples about what can be done currently. More interface work is also planned. 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 From ahaas at airmail.net Sun Mar 20 22:14:32 2005 From: ahaas at airmail.net (Art Haas) Date: Sun Mar 20 22:14:37 2005 Subject: [PythonCAD] RPM Packages for twenth-third release available Message-ID: <20050320211432.GB7305@artsapartment.org> Hi. Thanks to D. Scott Barninger for making them. See the link below if you want to try them out. http://www.pythoncad.org/download.html 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