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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