I've used Inkscape with vectorizations well in the range of the (early) tenths of thousands of nodes without crashing. Admiteddly, it gets slow, but then you have to do a bit of cleansing work. It's true that Inkscape renderization could be faster.
I think is also true that, at the moment, Inkscape is more ready for 'artistic' work than technical one. And size of images is not the only limitation... I think that Inkscape has issues with units and accurate placement of items, too? (I'm just blabbling here, so ignore me if I am wrong).
Could you pass us one of your CAD files, to experiment with it?
What exactly do you want to do with the imported CAD in Inkscape? Put it pretty for showcase printing, or something technical?
Denís.
Marcel.Tippmann@...2272... wrote:
I am working in the manufacturing industry. SolidWorks is part of the tools available for technical illustration.
Therefore I´m very keen on finding a way of passing geometric CAD data (just line drawings) into Inkscape.
Via DXF2SVG: I first tried to import a converted dxf. However the files are to big for Inkscape, it crashes when trying to import more around 500 objects.
Via Tracing: I tried to get around this problem by tracing the technical line drawing. But then again it resulted in about 400 single objects and 3000 nodes, Inkscape gets very very slow or even crashes.
Is it possible to generate a stroke tracing. Generating just a single stroke instead of multitudes of objects or surfaces?
Would be intresting to see if there are more users out there who are trying to pass CAD Data into Inkscape and use it for black-and-white line illustrations. I´ve been watching this mailing list for a while and I do get the impression Inkscape is mainly developed for art work, webdesign etc.. However passing geometric CAD data into Inksape is probably not an issue for the Inkcape users. (Hopefully I am wrong there).
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