Re: 2-D CAD/CAM

[Ian Redfern <RedfernI logica com>]

I have done the Canadian map symbols PDF, because translating PDFs into
SVG is pretty painless. I haven't done the road colours, because without
arbitrary rotation they seem a bit useless, but I've included the shield
symbols.

It's at http://public.logica.com/~redferni/dia/

If anyone has any other PDFs they would like translating into Dia
shapes, let me know.

Ian Redfern.

On Mon, 2002-09-23 at 19:48, Lars Clausen wrote:
> On Monday, 23 September '02, Alan Horkan wrote:
> > On 23 Sep 2002, Lars Clausen wrote:
> >
> > > Date: 23 Sep 2002 10:51:03 -0500
> > > From: Lars Clausen <lrclause cs uiuc edu>
> > > Reply-To: dia-list gnome org
> > > To: dia-list gnome org
> > > Subject: Re: 2-D CAD/CAM
> > >
> > > On Mon, 23 Sep 2002, Alan Horkan wrote:
> > > > below is a response to a message on the Sodipodi list As Dia is more
> > > > design oriented than sodipodi i was surprised that he had not even
> > > > considered Dia
> > > >
> > > > I was thinking maybe i will have time to produce more shapes soon.
> > >
> > > If you feel like making slightly less serious shapes, I was thinking
> > > about maps shapes (interstate, highway etc) and military shapes
> > > (infantry/tank/artillery etc).
> >
> > Ooh Tanks, got any example bitmaps?  Ill get drawing today and tommorow.
>
> The military symbols: http://www.army.mil/cmh-pg/books/korea/ebb/sym.htm
>
> Map symbols: The more complex ones, for topographical maps, are described
> at http://mac.usgs.gov/mac/isb/pubs/booklets/symbols/ I was thinking more
> like http://www.mtq.gouv.qc.ca/carte_routiere/PDF/legende_en.pdf (Canadian)
> or its US equivalent (which I haven't found yet).
>
> > I have been thinking about doing map shapes but i think i need to be able
> > to click objects to objects (rather than using just grid alignment)
> > before i could do nicely tiled maps.  (i have not given this a lot of
> > thought, i just dont immediately see how i could produce really nice maps
> > in Dia).
> >
> > I hope to get a demo copy of Visio in the next day or two so i will be
> > able to study the inteface and provide some example files.
> > Do we have anywhere to store files?  an archive/gallery or do we just
> > attach files to bug reports?
>
> There's a visio directory in the dia-web CVS, I've been putting random
> samples in there.
>
> -Lars
-- 
Ian Redfern
Consultant
Telecoms Solutions
Logica UK
Tel: +44 (0) 20 7446 1686
Email: RedfernI logica com
www.logica.com


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