From ynd at lntenc.com Thu Feb 1 08:55:25 2007 From: ynd at lntenc.com (Yagnesh Desai) Date: Thu, 1 Feb 2007 13:25:25 +0530 Subject: [PythonCAD] wiki contribution login required Message-ID: An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mail.python.org/pipermail/pythoncad/attachments/20070201/04479691/attachment.html From pdm at zamazal.org Sat Feb 3 17:08:27 2007 From: pdm at zamazal.org (Milan Zamazal) Date: Sat, 03 Feb 2007 17:08:27 +0100 Subject: [PythonCAD] Free software and civil engineering? Message-ID: <87zm7vfclg.fsf@zamazal.org> I'd like to know whether somebody uses free software in civil engineering. I'm especially interested in 2D drawing tools, but I'd like to know about other tools as well if there are any. What I primarily need now is a tool for drawing construction plans of my school assignments. I don't need a super-advanced tool, but the absolute requirement is that the plans must correspond to Czech (mostly equivalent to ISO/EN) drawing norms. This is the main problem, AFAIK neither PythonCAD nor QCad can do that. Another important feature might be support of common CAD file formats, but this is not what I need right now (but I need a way to export the drawing to an easily printable file, such as PDF). Is there anybody here interested in the same area? I'm not sure whether I should try to enhance some existent tool (PythonCAD being the primary candidate) or to write my own tool or to draw the assignments by hand. Sure, contributing to an existent project would be generally the best way, but I probably can't do that alone, I'm too busy with other things, so I'm just looking for the most efficient way to get my work done. Any suggestions? Regards, Milan Zamazal -- http://www.zamazal.org