7:01 a.m.
As we're nearing the release, we need more screenshots to show off the
new features in 0.46, to be published at
http://inkscape.org/screenshots/index.php?lang=en.
Here's a page describing how to create good screenshots:
http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/MakingScreenshots. Use the
information on that page and the best of the existing screenshots in
our gallery as inspiration.
At the very least, we need to illustrate:
- 3D box tool
- SVG filters
- more live path effects (we only have one screenshot for path along path)
- gradient tool's on-canvas mid stops
- a (meaningful) illustration of the color management at work
- new extensions
- new grid and guide features
- perhaps something with custom markers, along the lines of
http://needcoffee.deviantart.com/art/Gradients-To-Path-78650259
- any complex, stunning, impressive Inkscape art even if it does not
use the new features :)
See the release notes for a list of all new features:
http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/ReleaseNotes046
You can send your submissions to me for publishing on the site. Thanks
in advance!
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9:35 a.m.
A couple of people have posted screenshots on InkscapeForum.com -
http://www.inkscapeforum.com/viewtopic.php?f=21&t=672
bulia byak wrote:
As we're nearing the release, we need more screenshots to show off the
new features in 0.46, to be published at
http://inkscape.org/screenshots/index.php?lang=en.
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5:29 a.m.
New subject: GSOC 2008 / Technical Drawing in Inkscape
Dear Inkscape User List,
A few months ago I wrote to the inkscape user list to ask about the
possibility of adding some technical drawing features to your excellent
application, and we had a great discussion about how useful snapping to
nearest, endpoints, midpoints, intersections, quadrant, tangent,
horizontal and vertical would be.
I recently noticed a similar posting [Maximilian Albert] on the 'devel'
users list about adding similar features as part of a google soc 2008
project, and I wanted to say how useful I would find this, and hopefully a
few people from before could write and add their support.
While I'm not a coder, I was hoping to add a couple of suggestions of my
own as a user and avid fan:
- firstly, that the type of snap currently enforced (since several can be
turned on at once) is displayed somehow near the cursor, and if several
apply at once a key can be pressed to cycle between these
- secondly that snapping can be enabled whenever an input point is
required, not just for new shapes. So the center of a translation could be
from the midpoint of the side of a hexagon (say) and moved so it's aligned
with the corner (endpoint) of a rectangle.
- thirdly that each type of snap could be quickly turned on and off with a
simple keypress, and it's status displayed say in the status bar
The corel draw UI which implements this feature is explained in the file:
http://www.corel.com/uk/pdfs/cgs12/cdgs12_snapit.pdf
and autosketch (the first program I used with it) is explained at:
www.lepp.cornell.edu/~draft/ Manuals/AUTOSKETCH_USERS_GUIDE.pdf (p100)
If this feature is not considered large enough for soc, maybe it could be
combined with some other technical drawing features like the three point
circle, relative coordinates etc to make a larger one
Inkscape is a fantastic application, and with the newly added PDF editing
(hence PS editing via ghostscript), technical drawing/snapping is the only
barrier to extensive use at my university for publication of
academic papers which would be really fantastic for many academics.
Thanks for listening!
Cheers,
Alex
7:36 a.m.
New subject: Snapping (WAS: GSOC 2008 / Technical Drawing in Inkscape)
On Sun, 2008-03-30 at 21:29 +0100, A.J. Carter wrote:
Dear Inkscape User List,
A few months ago I wrote to the inkscape user list to ask about the
possibility of adding some technical drawing features to your excellent
application, and we had a great discussion about how useful snapping to
nearest, endpoints, midpoints, intersections, quadrant, tangent,
horizontal and vertical would be.
I recently noticed a similar posting [Maximilian Albert] on the 'devel'
users list about adding similar features as part of a google soc 2008
project, and I wanted to say how useful I would find this, and hopefully a
few people from before could write and add their support.
While I'm not a coder, I was hoping to add a couple of suggestions of my
own as a user and avid fan:
I played around with grids and guides and I think snapping should be
associated with the control/device/feature that they snap to, and not
have an independent "snapping" control.
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New subject: Snapping (WAS: GSOC 2008 / Technical Drawing in Inkscape)
On Mon, 2008-03-31 at 22:59 +0200, Diederik van Lierop wrote:
Mr. Shawn H. Corey wrote:
>
> I played around with grids and guides and I think snapping should be
> associated with the control/device/feature that they snap to, and not
> have an independent "snapping" control.
So when for example a rectangle's corner snaps to a grid, you would
rather toggle the snapping (or specify the snapping distance) for the
corner instead of for the grid? Why would you want that? Or am I
missing the point?
No, I mean each gird or guide has it's individually controlled snap.
With 0.46 it's possible to have more than one grid and it's possible to
have multiple guides. The snap controls for each should be with each;
not in a separate tab.
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10:24 p.m.
New subject: New Technical Drawing Features
Hi,
I'm a physicist who is a regular user of inkscape. I've written to the
mailing list before to ask about the possibility of increasing the number
of tools for technical drawing (snapping, geometric constructions etc.). I
was very excited to hear that Maximillian Albert was implementing some of
these as part of GSOC 2008, and I've just been trying the latest
development snapshot.
As a autodesk/corel user I was expecting tools for things like the 3 point
circle, 2 point circle to appear as flyouts for the circle tool (or a
seperate icon somewhere), and the tangent/bisector to be a kind of
'snapping constraint' when drawing new shapes that was either on or off.
I'm having trouble understanding how to use these features as inkscape
live path effects, and I wondered if anyone could explain how to make them
work?
Also, what is the benefit of implementing these as LPE's as opposed to the
more usual CAD approach adopted by corel designer 12/X4 or autocad etc?
Many thanks,
Alex
2:20 a.m.
New subject: New Technical Drawing Features
Hi,
First off, are you using just the live path effects or the actual
Geometry Tool (as I believe it will be called)? My guess is you're not
using the tool as the button for it is not enabled in the nightly
builds, in Inkscape hit Ctrl+Shift+F6 to switch to it. The tool is not
close to completion from my understanding and a number of changes are
still on Max's todo list. Another thing is that we received word from
Max about 2 weeks ago that his laptop was no longer working, so more
work on it from him is on hold at the moment. I know this wasn't the
type of response you were looking for, but I didn't want you to feel
that your message was being ignored (since it would be Max who would
reply and he's unable to).
Cheers,
Josh
A.J. Carter wrote:
Hi,
I'm a physicist who is a regular user of inkscape. I've written to the
mailing list before to ask about the possibility of increasing the number
of tools for technical drawing (snapping, geometric constructions etc.). I
was very excited to hear that Maximillian Albert was implementing some of
these as part of GSOC 2008, and I've just been trying the latest
development snapshot.
As a autodesk/corel user I was expecting tools for things like the 3 point
circle, 2 point circle to appear as flyouts for the circle tool (or a
seperate icon somewhere), and the tangent/bisector to be a kind of
'snapping constraint' when drawing new shapes that was either on or off.
I'm having trouble understanding how to use these features as inkscape
live path effects, and I wondered if anyone could explain how to make them
work?
Also, what is the benefit of implementing these as LPE's as opposed to the
more usual CAD approach adopted by corel designer 12/X4 or autocad etc?
Many thanks,
Alex
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New subject: New Technical Drawing Features
Been quietly listening in. Ctrl+Shift+F6 = WOW! That new mirror tool is something else.
Very excited
about these new features. CAD people will appreciate this. :)
heathenx
Josh Andler wrote the following on 10/9/2008 1:20 PM:
Hi,
First off, are you using just the live path effects or the actual
Geometry Tool (as I believe it will be called)? My guess is you're not
using the tool as the button for it is not enabled in the nightly
builds, in Inkscape hit Ctrl+Shift+F6 to switch to it. The tool is not
close to completion from my understanding and a number of changes are
still on Max's todo list. Another thing is that we received word from
Max about 2 weeks ago that his laptop was no longer working, so more
work on it from him is on hold at the moment. I know this wasn't the
type of response you were looking for, but I didn't want you to feel
that your message was being ignored (since it would be Max who would
reply and he's unable to).
Cheers,
Josh
A.J. Carter wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm a physicist who is a regular user of inkscape. I've written to the
> mailing list before to ask about the possibility of increasing the number
> of tools for technical drawing (snapping, geometric constructions etc.). I
> was very excited to hear that Maximillian Albert was implementing some of
> these as part of GSOC 2008, and I've just been trying the latest
> development snapshot.
>
> As a autodesk/corel user I was expecting tools for things like the 3 point
> circle, 2 point circle to appear as flyouts for the circle tool (or a
> seperate icon somewhere), and the tangent/bisector to be a kind of
> 'snapping constraint' when drawing new shapes that was either on or off.
>
> I'm having trouble understanding how to use these features as inkscape
> live path effects, and I wondered if anyone could explain how to make them
> work?
>
> Also, what is the benefit of implementing these as LPE's as opposed to the
> more usual CAD approach adopted by corel designer 12/X4 or autocad etc?
>
> Many thanks,
>
> Alex
>
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New subject: New Technical Drawing Features
Can I second that WOW ! I hadn't found that toolbar so thankyou to Josh
for pointing it out to me; it all makes much more sense now.
A lot of physicists like myself and light technical drawing enthusiasts
will be very excited by the next release :-)
Alex
On Thu, 9 Oct 2008, heathenx wrote:
Been quietly listening in. Ctrl+Shift+F6 = WOW! That new mirror tool
is something else. Very excited
about these new features. CAD people will appreciate this. :)
heathenx
Josh Andler wrote the following on 10/9/2008 1:20 PM:
> Hi,
>
> First off, are you using just the live path effects or the actual
> Geometry Tool (as I believe it will be called)? My guess is you're not
> using the tool as the button for it is not enabled in the nightly
> builds, in Inkscape hit Ctrl+Shift+F6 to switch to it. The tool is not
> close to completion from my understanding and a number of changes are
> still on Max's todo list. Another thing is that we received word from
> Max about 2 weeks ago that his laptop was no longer working, so more
> work on it from him is on hold at the moment. I know this wasn't the
> type of response you were looking for, but I didn't want you to feel
> that your message was being ignored (since it would be Max who would
> reply and he's unable to).
>
> Cheers,
> Josh
>
>
> A.J. Carter wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'm a physicist who is a regular user of inkscape. I've written to the
>> mailing list before to ask about the possibility of increasing the number
>> of tools for technical drawing (snapping, geometric constructions etc.). I
>> was very excited to hear that Maximillian Albert was implementing some of
>> these as part of GSOC 2008, and I've just been trying the latest
>> development snapshot.
>>
>> As a autodesk/corel user I was expecting tools for things like the 3 point
>> circle, 2 point circle to appear as flyouts for the circle tool (or a
>> seperate icon somewhere), and the tangent/bisector to be a kind of
>> 'snapping constraint' when drawing new shapes that was either on or off.
>>
>> I'm having trouble understanding how to use these features as inkscape
>> live path effects, and I wondered if anyone could explain how to make them
>> work?
>>
>> Also, what is the benefit of implementing these as LPE's as opposed to the
>> more usual CAD approach adopted by corel designer 12/X4 or autocad etc?
>>
>> Many thanks,
>>
>> Alex
>>
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New subject: New Technical Drawing Features
I know i'm late to this thread, but i only just discovered these too.
thanks josh!! these are great.
Andy
On Sun, Oct 12, 2008 at 9:35 PM, A.J. Carter <ajc200@...2354...> wrote:
Can I second that WOW ! I hadn't found that toolbar so thankyou
to Josh
for pointing it out to me; it all makes much more sense now.
A lot of physicists like myself and light technical drawing enthusiasts
will be very excited by the next release :-)
Alex
On Thu, 9 Oct 2008, heathenx wrote:
> Been quietly listening in. Ctrl+Shift+F6 = WOW! That new mirror tool is something
else. Very excited
> about these new features. CAD people will appreciate this. :)
>
> heathenx
>
> Josh Andler wrote the following on 10/9/2008 1:20 PM:
>> Hi,
>>
>> First off, are you using just the live path effects or the actual
>> Geometry Tool (as I believe it will be called)? My guess is you're not
>> using the tool as the button for it is not enabled in the nightly
>> builds, in Inkscape hit Ctrl+Shift+F6 to switch to it. The tool is not
>> close to completion from my understanding and a number of changes are
>> still on Max's todo list. Another thing is that we received word from
>> Max about 2 weeks ago that his laptop was no longer working, so more
>> work on it from him is on hold at the moment. I know this wasn't the
>> type of response you were looking for, but I didn't want you to feel
>> that your message was being ignored (since it would be Max who would
>> reply and he's unable to).
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Josh
>>
>>
>> A.J. Carter wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I'm a physicist who is a regular user of inkscape. I've written to
the
>>> mailing list before to ask about the possibility of increasing the number
>>> of tools for technical drawing (snapping, geometric constructions etc.). I
>>> was very excited to hear that Maximillian Albert was implementing some of
>>> these as part of GSOC 2008, and I've just been trying the latest
>>> development snapshot.
>>>
>>> As a autodesk/corel user I was expecting tools for things like the 3 point
>>> circle, 2 point circle to appear as flyouts for the circle tool (or a
>>> seperate icon somewhere), and the tangent/bisector to be a kind of
>>> 'snapping constraint' when drawing new shapes that was either on or
off.
>>>
>>> I'm having trouble understanding how to use these features as inkscape
>>> live path effects, and I wondered if anyone could explain how to make them
>>> work?
>>>
>>> Also, what is the benefit of implementing these as LPE's as opposed to
the
>>> more usual CAD approach adopted by corel designer 12/X4 or autocad etc?
>>>
>>> Many thanks,
>>>
>>> Alex
>>>
>>>
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New subject: The Power of Technical Drawing
Hello,
This is possibly a little off topic, but I just came across this web-page
with some examples of technical drawings. Admittedly they are drawn in
illustrator but the ship in particular is so breathtakingly complicated
(640MB, 720 hours) that I thought other people may appreciate it!
http://www.khulsey.com/demo_1howto.html
Make sure to click the 'see the latest high resolution' link to appreciate
the depth of the detail.
1:41 a.m.
New subject: The Power of Technical Drawing
On Thu, Nov 27, 2008 at 10:10 AM, A.J. Carter <ajc200@...2354...> wrote:
What impresses me most deeply about this image is that while "line
art" was done in AI, the "coloring" was done in Photoshop. Is AI
unable to do all those shadows, lights and textures itself, in vector?
Is it just power of tradition, or would it be just too slow to render
or memory-hungry if kept in AI? Or may it be that
traditionally-trained artists just don't consider it so important for
the final image to be resolution-independed, open and reusable vector?
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9:59 p.m.
New subject: GSOC 2009 Technical Drawing Features
Hello,
As a regular inkscape user within a university I was excited last year
about the possibility of some technical drawing features as part of GSOC
2008 (Maxamillian Albert).
I was wonderinf if anyone might know whether anything ever came of it ?
Thanks,
Alex
10:59 p.m.
New subject: GSOC 2009 Technical Drawing Features
On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 9:59 AM, A.J. Carter <ajc200@...2354...> wrote:
Hello,
As a regular inkscape user within a university I was excited last year
about the possibility of some technical drawing features as part of GSOC
2008 (Maxamillian Albert).
I was wonderinf if anyone might know whether anything ever came of it ?
We have a new tool for all kinds of geometric constructions, but it is
disabled now because it is unfinished. If anyone is interested in
this topic, you are more than welcome to resurrect this code and make
it available. Unfortunately Max himself left before finishing it.
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5:43 a.m.
New subject: [Inkscape-devel] GSOC 2008 / Technical Drawing in Inkscape
A.J. Carter wrote:
- firstly, that the type of snap currently enforced (since several
can be
turned on at once) is displayed somehow near the cursor, and if several
apply at once a key can be pressed to cycle between these [...]
- thirdly that each type of snap could be quickly turned on and off with a
simple keypress, and it's status displayed say in the status bar
Indeed, it should be indicated somewhere which snap mode is active. I'd
prefer to go the status bar route though, because I don't think it's
important enough to display it near the cursor. Besides, showing it at
the status bar is the easiest thing to implement. Please file an RFE for
this in Launchpad and assign it to me.
About the cycling / toggling of the snap mode: if you toggle the
visibility of the grid/guides, you also toggle the snapping. This
toggling is already linked to keys (# and | ), isn't this sufficiently
convenient? Of course there will be use cases for snapping to invisible
grids (or not snapping to visible grids), but these are probably much
less common. For these special cases one would simply have to open the
document properties dialog, that's only little additional effort. I can
think of stuff that needs to be fixed or implemented more urgently on
which I'd rather spend my precious time ;-).
- secondly that snapping can be enabled whenever an input point is
required, not just for new shapes. So the center of a translation could be
from the midpoint of the side of a hexagon (say) and moved so it's aligned
with the corner (endpoint) of a rectangle.
I'm not sure that I fully understand what you're trying to explain here:
what do you mean with "center of a translation"? Would you simply like
to have the midpoint of one of the hexagon's sides aligned to a corner
of the rectangle? That will be possible as soon as I implement the
snapping of midpoints, which is on my todo list. Currently, we could
only snap the hexagon's nodes (endpoints) to that corner.
Regards,
Diederik
6:07 a.m.
New subject: [Inkscape-devel] GSOC 2008 / Technical Drawing in Inkscape
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Indeed, it should be indicated somewhere which snap mode is
active. I'd prefer to go the status bar route though, because
I don't think it's important enough to display it near the
cursor.
But it would be nice to temporary show next to the cursor what type of snap happened! ;)
Johan
7:49 p.m.
New subject: [Inkscape-devel] GSOC 2008 / Technical Drawing in Inkscape
Dear Diederik,
Thanks so much for taking the time to reply (see below).
Indeed, it should be indicated somewhere which snap mode is active.
I'd
prefer to go the status bar route though, because I don't think it's
important enough to display it near the cursor. Besides, showing it at the
status bar is the easiest thing to implement. Please file an RFE for this in
Launchpad and assign it to me.
I was thinking of the status bar giving a quick indication of which snap
modes (insersection, quadrant) are currently globally turned on, since
several could be on at once. A single keypress could then visually turn
each off at once without loading the document properties tab.
To indicate the current snap as a line is drawn I was thinking of
something either floating next to the cursor, or the shape of the cursor
changing as it jumps when you are drawing a line and come within a 'snap
radius' of an active snapping point (as Johan said).
I think it would be important to indicate to the user in some way whether
the system thinks it's currently snapping to a gridpoint or an endpoint if
two are nearby and both types of snap are turned on at once.
I've found the following page online with a few screenshots showing corel
draw - if you scroll to the bottom of the page and see the image before
last. As you see corel shows the type of snap as a line is drawn by the
shape of the cursor, and by the floating 'help' message.
http://www.cadintools.com/cdr_tips.htm
I'm not sure that I fully understand what you're trying to
explain here: what
do you mean with "center of a translation"?
To explain what I was meaning, if you take a look at the final screenshot
on the same page:
http://www.cadintools.com/cdr_tips.htm
In this they want to move (translate) the rectange from the upper left
position so that it ends up just touching the circle. With the snap
enabled as they click to select the rectangle they can pick it up _from_
the midpoint of the right side (so that is where they are 'holding it' as
they move) and then release when this point is caught by the quadrant snap
of the circle. This guarantees the rectange and circle are perfectly
aligned and touching, and applies to all types of snap. When I said
'centre of translation' I was meaning the midpoint of the right side of
this rectange in this case, and this centre can be selecting using all
possible snap points of an object or group of objects.
I hope that makes what I was meaning clearer ?
I agree with Shawn that with multiple grids possible the on/off snap is a
property of each which I hadn't though of before!
Thanks for your time Diederik and for the patience to listen again - I;d
lvoe to hear any comments :-)
Alex
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