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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