Dia is wrong application for that task. Use Cycas from http://www.cycas.de
On Wed, 27 Feb 2002 15:16:39 +1300 Greg Trounson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Greetings, > > I have used the latest version of Dia to draw up a floorplan of an > existing split-level house. > > This was no easy task, as none of dia's built-in widgets have common > floorplan-style symbols such as walls, windows and doors. I instead > resorted to a combination of lines, polygons and bezier curves. It also > revealed (IMHO) a few shotcomings of dia, especially in the area of > scaling to arbitrary units. I gave up on trying to make it to scale in > the end. > > Is there any plan to incorporate a widget/shape/sheet (pardon my > terminology, I don't know what they're really called) with building plan > graphics? I understand that making plug-in shapes and sheets in XML is > relatively easy. Has anyone done this? > > I recall visio having menus where you could insert benchtops, tables, > and "Room Measurement" widgets. > > thank you, > Greg > _______________________________________________ > Dia-list mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/dia-list -- Ole-Johan Lauvås [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Dia-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/dia-list
