On Wed, 2005-08-24 at 14:51 -0700, Bryce Harrington wrote: Did you hear that??? You guys better get hacking and posting and talking more so that you can get paid by Google!!! That is under 7 days to get everything in or no enchilada!!! Jon -- Jon Phillips San Francisco, CA USA PH 510.499.0894 jon@...235... http://www.rejon.org MSN, AIM, Yahoo Chat: kidproto Jabber Chat: rejon@...896... IRC: rejon@...897... Inkscape (http://inkscape.org) Open Clip Art Library (www.openclipart.org)

My fault for not looking two minutes soone the .inx goes under share\extensions and the source code goes under \src\extensions. Matt

On Tue, Aug 30, 2005 at 10:08:51AM -0600, Matt Squires wrote: Hi Matt, Thanks for posting the request; I've enabled your SF CVS access. Bryce

could you send me the file. thanks, Matt

Sorry for not many updates, I know it is not OSS of me. It is taking me longer to get back to speed on the dxf SOC than I expected after working to save funding for my actual research. I am trying to get an import .inx file working. The code now is only for import and is in the form of a dxf2svg file. A little help would be nice on the inx files. I have both window and linux boxes and right now it seems that I am having better luck with linux when I am playing with .inx files. Is windows more touchy when it comes to the inx files? In the spirit of being a student I have focused on the class that is most important and that is physics. My CS class has taken a back seat to classes in my major. I will turn in the import part and will completly ignore the export part for the Sept 1 deadline. I think it would be nice to try to get dxf export working on a longer timeframe. Matt

On Thu, 2005-08-25 at 06:27 -0500, aaron@...749... wrote: Yeah, post what you have first...then ppl. will remix it. Yeah, we do evaluations on SEPT 1 to see how you met your goals. From our report Google will decide if you should get paid. So, that leaves few days for you to crank this out if you intend to. I would recommend prioritizing this if you want to get paid! I think it is most important for you to get code up ASAP! Usually we require ppl. to post a patch or some initial contribution b4 we give free reign on CVS. Please do this first and quickly! My recommendation is to do this: 1.) provide an INX file 2.) provide your dxf2svg file 2nd thing is to provide a svg2dxf file to convert to dxf. Then you'll be done...I think you can do this if you just focus, use the community for advice and feedback...etc... Jon -- Jon Phillips San Francisco, CA USA PH 510.499.0894 jon@...235... http://www.rejon.org MSN, AIM, Yahoo Chat: kidproto Jabber Chat: rejon@...896... IRC: rejon@...897... Inkscape (http://inkscape.org) Open Clip Art Library (www.openclipart.org)

# from Matt Squires # on Saturday 27 August 2005 03:15 am: Please package all of your files under one directory (the ./README in your zip unpacks above the rest of your tree.) What files are you using for testing? Could you please post them? I get segfaults and hangs with several of mine. Seems lwpolylines in particular are a problem. If you're using qcad dxf's they don't (last I checked) have "closed" polylines -- instead of setting the "closed" flag, they just meet at a point (or was it that they do both?...) Bulged polylines (lwpolyline entities with rounded corners) in particular seem to be a problem (probably because bulges are inlined to the point array.) You also have a memory-limit issue. It looks like you're slurping the entire dxf into memory and building all of your data-structures before starting to work, which causes it to run up to 1.2GB and abort on some of my larger files. To get around this, you have to use a smaller-footprint strategy such as the one (involving seek()) in my CAD::DXF module. There are also some issues with 3D entities. I haven't found any references to "normal" or codes 210,220,230 in your code. You should probably ignore entities with non-Z normal vectors (the spec calls them "extrusion direction") in converting to 2D. Here's a summary of some of the files that I've tested. I'll put these in the uber-converter[1] repository[2] if you want to test them. The last one is 8+MB compressed, so I won't put that in the repo. Ping me off-list if you feel up to attacking the memory-limit issue. 3d_circs.dxf incorrect arc.dxf segfault bulged_lwpoly.dxf hang chckmir.dxf segfault chckcpy.dxf segfault example.dxf segfault polylines.dxf hang segs.dxf segfault viewtext.dxf segfault circles2k2.dxf Abort It looks like you have a lot to do to get done in time for SOC. I don't know if the inx format supports pipes, but even if it doesn't a simple wrapper would make the following uber-converter chain into what looks like one command. cat file.dxf | dxf2rzp | rzp2svg > file.svg A bit of hacking on the python rzp2svg would get you just as far *very quickly* without any of the aforementioned issues and would likely yield more long-term growth if inkscape doesn't mind the dependency. --Eric [1] http://scratchcomputing.com/projects/uber-converter/ [2] http://scratchcomputing.com/uc/trunk/ -- Peer's Law: The solution to the problem changes the problem. --------------------------------------------- http://scratchcomputing.com ---------------------------------------------

Hi Matt, Good to see what you've working on this summer, sorry to hear about the issues you've had wrt funding. Have got it compiling ok on win under mingw, and have fixed the inx so it works for win32. compile with mingw just required the mingwenv.bat being put in the dir with the code, run that then do make -f makefile and it compiles no probs. The inx required a couple of tweaks, I've attached what I have working, I've currently put the dxf2svg.exe directly in the extensions dir. only tested it with one of the optical mount files you pointed to, will see if I can find some other testcases. Cheers Sim btw, some documentation in the readme would be good, even if its only run with dxf2svg test.dxf > test.svg __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

How is that done and where is it put? Matt

Fixed, sorry. I used the wrong extension on ps2dxf I changed it to .sh. Matt