[cad-linux-dev] Re: viewports

  • From: Chris Somerlot <csomerlot@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: cad-linux-dev@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2004 16:05:37 -0400

I can do this in autocad (as of v.2004), it lets you set freeze/thaw
by viewport. the uber-converter, tho, just translates between file
formats, so I'm not sure this functionality can be built in.

On Tue, 24 Aug 2004 12:53:50 -0700 (PDT), phrostie <pfrostie@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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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