Hi Peppe, I read your page about CAD. Good documentation ! Here are some propositions to be more precise about what the driver can do and what it cannot : - subset of supported geometries features (ex. POINT, POLYLINE..., I'll check that) - list of dxf feature attributes imported (COLOR, THICKNESS..., see the schema of an imported dxf file) - more precise description of how polylines are imported : the DXF "closed" field is used to know if geometries have to be imported as polygons or as polylines. This way the parser can make a difference between a closed line (a polyline with identical first and last points but without the closed dxf attribute) and a polygon (a closed polyline with the closed attribute) : to test it, you can draw a polygon and a closed polyline in jump, export it in dxf and import it back into jump. - we should also write that the plugin is able to "export" DXF files from OpenJUMP, even if this is less useful than importing cad drawings. - I did not test all the dxf version you considered (8 to 14/2002). Hope that works. The driver is based on an old version of DXF specification (10 or 12, don't remember exactly). Most of new features are simply ignored. One major limitation is about local coordinates : if some objects in the drawing are described in a local coordinate system, the parser will ignore that and use them as if they were absolute coordinates.
I read attributes such as color and thickness as normal jump attributes because basically, a jump driver read geometries and attributes, not styles. But reading your paper, I thought that it should not be too difficult to write a script which can apply styles to dxf-layers using their dxf-attributes (I'll give this a try) Michaël Giuseppe Aruta a écrit : > Hi Michael, > I wrote a small tutorial about CAD files > (http://openjump.org/wiki/show/CAD+Tutorial). > I did some consideration about your DXF plugin, I would like you give > it a look (maybe I made some mistakes about it). > > Thanks > > peppe > > L'email della prossima generazione? Puoi averla con la nuova Yahoo! > Mail > <http://us.rd.yahoo.com/mail/it/taglines/hotmail/nowyoucan/nextgen/*http://it.docs.yahoo.com/nowyoucan.html> > > > >------------------------------------------------------------------------ > >------------------------------------------------------------------------- >This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft >Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. >http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ > >------------------------------------------------------------------------ > >_______________________________________________ >Jump-pilot-devel mailing list >Jump-pilot-devel@lists.sourceforge.net >https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jump-pilot-devel > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Jump-pilot-devel mailing list Jump-pilot-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jump-pilot-devel
