Hi,
As an engineer, I like Inkscape because it is NOT like CAD (I like the simplicity and free form nature)
Sure. I am not a pro, just a bloke trying to layout my house with free software. I tried Qcad, but it's just too exhausting to use!
- Rotate entire page - the plan is designed square, but the house is
seated at an angle. Nice to be able to see the house angled, but continue to design square.
Have you tried selecting all the objects, grouping and then rotating ?
Sure, but then I can't measure anything anymore. You see I am using width and height of the selected objects (divided by 10) to get a size in meters. I am also using the grid and snap so that I can work to some kind of scale. As soon as one rotates stuff--bang!--it all goes to pot.
- It would be super if "symbols" (original groups that are used as
clones) could be kept in a separate .svg file and referred-to within other svg files. That way, the symbols don't have to be *in* every file that uses those clones.
then you start to have file dependency hell. I do keep a separate file for my favorite symbols/drawn objects which I copy into various drawings. I want them to be a pure copy so I can modify them any way I want in that particular drawing.
Well, I have experienced this long years past with Flash, but it's really about your personal file organization habits. I won't have a problem keeping control.
7.5 (I just remembered) It would be nifty if a kind of "spreadsheetyness" could infiltrate Inkscape. For example, I often wanted to add a list of areas (that I manually calculated and noted as text objects here and there) together and display a total area in a text object on another layer. If that could be automated by variables and formula... Just imagine!
Inkscape does allow lines with arrowheads - doesn't submit the measurements automatically but again it's not CAD, but is thankfully much simpler. All the "auto calculate" kind of stuff would make for a nice python extension.
Can the python extension be used to create new tools? A cad-like measuring tool that labels the length would be cool.
copy/paste between Inkscape instances on Kubuntu just plain does not work. So I end up making "cut.svg" files with one item in it so I can import that to the next file. Boring really. So being able to pull something out of a busy file and send it to a file would speed that.
Cut and paste between files does work - you just have to open the 2nd file from within the first file
Oh! Wow. I never suspected that. I knew it worked sometimes and then not, but I never made that connection. Great help that, thanks.
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