Thank you, that voiced my sentiments pretty much spot on! So has anybody attempted to create a sheet with house-type stuff? Or at least point me to a good dia/XML tutorial and I could have a go myself :)
Greg Geoff Gerrietts wrote: > > Quoting Greg Trounson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > "Ole-Johan Lauvås" wrote: > > > > > > Dia is wrong application for that task. Use Cycas from http://www.cycas.de > > > > > > > Are you sure? Dia has a lot of potential, and has an "almost there but > > not quite yet" feel when it comes to floor plans, at least for those of > > us that don't want something as complicated as Cycas. > > I also could not locate the CVS tree for cycas. It appears to be closed > > source. > > I like the idea. I think the ease with which you can slap together a > rough floorplan in Visio attests to how Dia could do this quite well. > > I think Cycas and many of the other drafting tools available are quite > nice, but they really answer a different need than the "drag and drop > some shapes" approach Dia allows -- more for the person trying to > model a home than for the person trying to figure out how to shuffle > his furniture around. > > Or the person trying to make floormaps for his Shadowrun game, for > that matter. ;) -- ------------------------------------------------------------- Greg Trounson Programmer / Analyst Dept. of Maths and Stats, University of Otago PO. Box 56, Dunedin tel: 64-3-4797739 New Zealand ----------------=[ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ]=---------------- _______________________________________________ Dia-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/dia-list
