RE: Shapes for 1U rack-mount servers

["Luc Cessieux" <cessieux hotmail com>]

I have propose to lars a shape type which could answer at your problem but I 
now answer of him for the moment.
I think that all update of dia use many time.
Thank lars if you have a little time to look my objects
Luc



> From: Martin Gleadow <jez arafel org uk>
> Reply-To: discussions about usage and development of dia 
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> Subject: Shapes for 1U rack-mount servers
> Date: Sat, 11 Mar 2006 17:43:20 +0000
>
> I have recently started using Dia to document network architectures and 
> have found it highly useful.  However, when it came to documenting a rack 
> full of 1U servers I couldn't find any shapes that really fitted my needs 
> so decided to create some.  I am reasonably happy with the way they have 
> turned out (and I learned a fair bit about the Dia shape format in the 
> process).
>
> You can download them from http://jez.choralone.org/dia.html where you can 
> also preview them in icon form.
>
> Feedback and comments welcome.
>
> I have the following notes and observations on them:
>
> * They are 2D only since this was easier for me to create and frankly there 
> is little point in seeing the rest of a rack-mount server
>
> * I have created different designs based on the different servers I needed 
> to document - I figured that if I needed to document the type of server it 
> was better to do so diagrammatically rather than add a text label to each 
> one
>
> * There is no internationalization in any of the files
>
> * Icons are 80 pixels wide as they were too small to see at 40px
>
> I drew the shapes in Dia and exported them as .shape files, using Gimp to 
> tidy up .png's where necessary.  The only problem I encountered here was 
> the addition of heavy black lines to the shape file - I manually edited 
> these and removed 'path' elements which appeared to be causing the 
> problems.
>
> I initially used 160px icons with the idea that there would be one icon per 
> line in the menu - however I couldn't get this to work.  Is there something 
> which needs to be done to the .sheet file to tidy the menu?
>
> As an aside, is there an easy way to add a colour fill to the Sunfire v120 
> shape created by the intersection of the bezier lines with the edge of the 
> rectangle?  If this is unclear I can provide a rendering of what I would 
> like to do.
>
> A nice feature may be to improve the shape-creation mechanisms within Dia 
> to make it really easy to add shapes created from within the program.
>
> Finally, thank you to all who have worked to make this tool, it is fast 
> becoming one of the key items of software in my job.
>
> Martin
>
> --
>
> Martin Gleadow
> jez arafel org uk
>
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