Re: Newbie question: Sub-interpreters for CAD program

2005-08-29 Thread David MacQuigg
On 27 Aug 2005 17:00:07 -0700, "sonicSpammersGoToHellSmooth" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Cool, I went to the UofA for my MS in ECE, 2000. I did my theses under >Chuck Higgins. -- >http://neuromorph.ece.arizona.edu/pubs/ma_schwager_msthesis.pdf > >The tools we had were constantly underwhelming me,

Re: Newbie question: Sub-interpreters for CAD program

2005-08-29 Thread David MacQuigg
On Sat, 27 Aug 2005 16:56:03 -0500, Terry Hancock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Saturday 27 August 2005 03:21 am, David MacQuigg wrote: >> There is a similar lack of interest in the academic community. None >> of this is likely to lead to publications in scholarly journals. > >I'm confused by wh

Re: Newbie question: Sub-interpreters for CAD program

2005-08-29 Thread Terry Hancock
On Saturday 27 August 2005 03:21 am, David MacQuigg wrote: > The discouraging thing about the EDA tools situation is that no matter > how loudly design engineers complain about the poor quality of the > proprietary tools they are using, there is very little interest in > participating in an open-so

Re: Newbie question: Sub-interpreters for CAD program

2005-08-27 Thread sonicSpammersGoToHellSmooth
Cool, I went to the UofA for my MS in ECE, 2000. I did my theses under Chuck Higgins. -- http://neuromorph.ece.arizona.edu/pubs/ma_schwager_msthesis.pdf The tools we had were constantly underwhelming me, so I've been thinking for years that a properly designed new toolset for students should be m

Re: Newbie question: Sub-interpreters for CAD program

2005-08-27 Thread David MacQuigg
On 24 Aug 2005 13:48:13 -0700, "sonicSpammersGoToHellSmooth" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Hi all, > >I'm a newbie to Python, so I have a question about writing an >application that also has a scripting ability. I'm thinking of Eric3 >as an example. It's written in Python, but it also has an inter

Re: Newbie question: Sub-interpreters for CAD program

2005-08-25 Thread sonicSpammersGoToHellSmooth
Hi, Actually I was thinking of doing the bulk of everything in Python, and then embedding a Python interpreter into the CAD program. Anything in C++ would be to speed up critical things, like rules checking, etc. I have looked at python cad (found it a year or two ago) and am inspired by it; I'm

Re: Newbie question: Sub-interpreters for CAD program

2005-08-25 Thread Terry Hancock
On Thursday 25 August 2005 09:13 am, Peter Hansen wrote: > Terry Hancock wrote: > > On Wednesday 24 August 2005 09:12 pm, Peter Hansen wrote: > >>Or even http://www.pythoncad.org/ which, although probably for > >>mechanical CAD work (I haven't looked at it, don't really know), is > >>surely a goo

Re: Newbie question: Sub-interpreters for CAD program

2005-08-25 Thread Peter Hansen
Terry Hancock wrote: > On Wednesday 24 August 2005 09:12 pm, Peter Hansen wrote: >>Or even http://www.pythoncad.org/ which, although probably for >>mechanical CAD work (I haven't looked at it, don't really know), is >>surely a good place to get ideas of what Python can do in this area. > > No, I

Re: Newbie question: Sub-interpreters for CAD program

2005-08-24 Thread Terry Hancock
On Wednesday 24 August 2005 09:12 pm, Peter Hansen wrote: > Terry Hancock wrote: > >>I have a strong EE and hardware background (hence my need to write a > >>CAD program that doesn't piss me off), but not a CS background. > > > > You probably ought to consider starting with something existing like

Re: Newbie question: Sub-interpreters for CAD program

2005-08-24 Thread Peter Hansen
Terry Hancock wrote: >>I have a strong EE and hardware background (hence my need to write a >>CAD program that doesn't piss me off), but not a CS background. > > Cool. If you do write it and release it, I'd be interested in finding out > about it. > > You probably ought to consider starting with

Re: Newbie question: Sub-interpreters for CAD program

2005-08-24 Thread Terry Hancock
On Wednesday 24 August 2005 03:48 pm, sonicSpammersGoToHellSmooth wrote: > In my case I'd like to write a CAD program which allows the user to > write Python scripts, and to provide an API to do CAD stuff, manipulate > parameters, circuits, layouts, simulations, etc. The user should not > have acc