Paul Hirose wrote:
I'm having trouble drawing a path depicting a vessel's movements. For example, from some starting point, go 123 miles on course 091°, thence 73 miles on course 346°, etc.
Sounds like turtle geometry to me.
I can get the diagram just right by first roughing out the path by eye, then using the Inkscape XML edit feature to modify the node coordinates. To get the correct numbers I perform vector math on a calculator. This is laborious and blunder-prone. Is there a better way?
You could write an extension to process a file that describes the vessel movements and creates a new path tracing that path at a certain scale. If you know python it would be rather quick to create such an extension using the pturtle.py module in the extensions directory.
http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/inkscape/inkscape/share/extensions/ptu...
Aaron Spike