On Sun, Feb 15, 2015 at 8:42 PM, Krzysztof Kosiński wrote:
SVG is definitely the best open format for diagrams. The only ones that come to mind are either closed (WMF, EMF, Visio)
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc215212.aspx https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc230514.aspx
Blender has a lot more funding compared to Inkscape, so it's no surprise it has more features.
Blender has more funding, because it's managed by an entrepreneur. Everything else -- from selling educational content to fund full-time development to building a high-profile community of passionate users who get things done -- is the direct result of that.
Personally, I don't think that blaming lack of features on SVG is sensible. Creating your own file format does speed up adding new features, because you control everything, but it also tends to lead to crappy design decisions regarding the file format (quite notable in case of Macromedia Freehand, for instance) which then have to be maintained (note that proprietary software often drops *really* old file formats support, e.g. today Corel DRAW would only open v7 file format or so, not any of the earlier versions).
On the other hand, getting stuff right and making a sensible open standard takes ages -- SVG2 is a case in point -- which is simply how pretty much every committee operates. So one makes one's his/her life difficult one way or another.
Alex