Re: building shapes

[Lars Clausen <lrclause cs uiuc edu>]

On Mon, 29 Jul 2002, Alan Horkan wrote:
> On 16 Jul 2002, Lars Clausen wrote:
>
> > Date: 16 Jul 2002 09:50:00 -0500
> > From: Lars Clausen <lrclause cs uiuc edu>
> > Reply-To: dia-list gnome org
> > To: dia-list gnome org
> > Subject: Re: building shapes
> >
> > On Tue, 16 Jul 2002, Michael Plotsker wrote:
> > > does anyone know of a source for 2d building shapes i.e. doors,
> > > kitchen cabinets, sinks toilets, tubs, furniture, etc for dia? I would
> > > like to use it as a poor man's cad program for planning my
> > > construction project on my house.
> >
> > Someone was talking about doing this earlier, but I never saw any shapes
> > for it.  With exporting as shapes and the sheets&objects dialog, it's
> > pretty easy to do a basic set yourself.  If you do make some, we'd be
> > happy to include them in Dia.
>
> i added a quarter cirle to the CVS version of dia, which might be userful
> for representing doors and stuff

You can do many a thing with the Beziergons.

> dia does yet not allow connecting lines to lines which would be helpful
> for this kind of thing (although i suspect i could hack the XML and get
> myself an SVG path)

Not so, you just can't connect to endpoints (which may be what you want
here).  The problem is that when searching for a connection point to
connect to, the line would find itself and it would be very ... strange.
I suppose we could add a 'not-this' object to those calls.

-Lars

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