this svg file is not created inside inkscape, it's created with a separate tool.
nsdiag is part of the blockdiag.com set of tools, it lets you take a small text file and create a svg diagram. I've attached the text file that was used to create this .svg
for a simple diagram like this it wouldn't take more than a half hour or so to create it in inkscape directly, but if you can think about a more complex diagram that includes 50 systems connected to 84 networks with a total of 294 interfaces and 634 IP addresses, you will see that drawing this manually will take days, whild a script can create the bockdiag config file in a couple of minutes and then nwdiag can create a svg file in a few seconds.
I'm willing to consider modifying the svg file directly, or getting the blockdiag tools patched to write something different into the svg file if that's what it takes to make this work, but I was hoping that there was some way to work with the data as is, not just because blockdiag makes these less-than-optimal files, but because there are going to be other tools that do as well.
A CAD program that I have allows me to select not only objects, but points. If I select some points in an object and then move them, the object gets stretched/distorted appropriately. What I think I'm looking for in Inkscape is a way to grab the point that is the endpoint of the path as well as the objects and move them all togeather.
David Lang
On Tue, 22 May 2012, Gianvittorio Zandona wrote:
David, I saw your sample and I can see you created the lines with Shift+F6 instead of using Ctrl+F2. See the same example (less pretty) , but using Ctrl+F2. If you move around the boxes with Firewall (for instance), the line will follow as soon as you let the box go. Was this what you wanted to do? Gian
Op 22 mei 2012 om 21:25 uur schreef david@...2429...:
attached is a sample .svg file.
what I am trying to do is to grab the two networks in the bottom right and slide them up to close the large blank space between them and the network above them.
If I select the networks and text and then try to move them, the line segments do not move.
I don't see what ctrl+f2 is going to do with this.
David Lang
On Tue, 22 May 2012, Gianvittorio Zandona wrote:
@ David, Maybe I did not understand your question. Sorry if that is the case. Did you try with Ctrl+F2? Here is a quick tutorial http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-0cnYSEg4V4
@ Lars, I always confuse Lars and David ;-)
Good luck, Gian
Op 22 mei 2012 om 02:51 uur schreef david@...2429...:
I have some .svg files that I create with the tools at blockdiag.com (it does a good job of turning progromatic data into a valid graphic), but there are a lot of times when I would like to grab a chunk of the resulting digram and move it around. The problem I have had trying to use Inkscape to do this is that I can select and grab a block, but the lines stay put. I really want to grab the objects and the endpoints of the lines that are within the selection window and move the endpoints along with the objects.
Is there an easy way to do this that I have been overlooking?
David Lang
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