baalbek wrote: > David Cuthbert wrote: > > > This does not mean the design itself should be stored as an RDBMS. As > > I've stated previously, CAD data (both electrical and, it appears, > > mechanical) does not lend itself to RDBMS relationship modeling. > > I simply do not agree with this. > > A CAD program (like Autocad) is nothing > but an advanced database editor: the program loads data from a binary > file and creates its object (in memory) from the tables that it reads
Hi Baalbek, Athouh they are database editors, they are not relational database editors. Relational database engines fit some type of problems but others have found that RDBMS don't fit CAD data. They are just too slow and add complexity in mapping the 'natural CAD data formats' to the RDBMS table format. - Pad. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list