Re: dia for floor plans

[Alex Mandel <tech_dev wildintellect com>]

Sam Fourman Jr. wrote:
> hello
>
> I am very new to dia, and I was wondering if there are some templates
> to use dia to draw baisic 2D floorlayouts
>
> we use Visio for this now, and visio has a tool that can calc square
> feet inside a shape. How would I use dia to do this?
>
> visio is one of the last few hold out apps then our office can be windows Free.
>
>
> Thank you for your input
>
> Sam Fourman Jr.
> _______________________________________________

You could write (or contract) an extension to dia to do this calculation 
since it's easy if you have the dimensions of an object.
You can even do it in python look here for some examples 
http://www.gnome.org/projects/dia/python.html

Otherwise consider a more CAD oriented application like QCAD.

Alex