[cad-linux-dev] Re: viewports
- From: phrostie <pfrostie@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: cad-linux-dev@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2004 12:53:50 -0700 (PDT)
I've been asking(from a number of different projects) for this for a while.
i always tried to describe it as having multipule coordinate systems/axis.
just as you can segregate geometry by layer, by also segregating geometry that
belongs to a given "view" you add a number of different functionalities.
--- Bruno Postle <bruno@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Mon 23-Aug-2004 at 14:26 -0500, Eric Wilhelm wrote:
> >
> > We haven't even touch on acad's "paper space" yet, and pythoncad
> > is just starting to get printing. Maybe "geometry/" should be
> > "model/", and then we have "layout-1/", etc. (or layouts/1/,
> > layouts/2/ ?)
>
> "paperspaces" are drawings-within-drawings much like an unreferenced
> block/symbol - So they would naturally become subdirectories with a
> specialised "viewport" element that references the parent directory.
>
> The problem would be distinguishing them from any other
> subdirectories.
>
> --
> Bruno
>
>
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