Patrick wrote:
I am not a great programmer but fortunately I can program in Python. Do you think the dxf output from Inkscape can be made useful for standard CAD stuff? I was going to write a script with a GUI to allow people to control the scaling?
There are plenty of improvements that could be made to the dxf_outlines.py script. You can see that it is very simplistic right now. We could make the scaling configurable via the gui. We could give the user an option to perform polyline approximation of curves. (There is a simple routine for this in flatten.py. It could be improved to be both faster and more accurate. cf. http://www.cs.concordia.ca/cccg/papers/36.pdf ) And I'm sure you could think of other things. But I think we must be careful not to forget the class of users for whom the script was originally created. I would like to retain this simple, preconfigured output option for them. (This could be done by having two INX files point to the same script, one providing more configurability and the other providing a configuration equivalent to the current script.)
Aaron Spike