[cad-linux-dev] Re: Addressability for drawings, xrefs, blocks, and viewports
- From: Bruno Postle <bruno@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: CAD linux development <cad-linux-dev@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2004 19:00:42 +0100
On Tue 24-Aug-2004 at 12:08 -0500, Eric Wilhelm wrote:
>
> > "Drawings" can be referenced by pointing to a directory (useful
> > for xref/block/symbol/viewports).
>
> Possibly, but xrefs, blocks, and viewports each have properties
> that drawings don't.
Drawings that are used as xrefs and blocks have a "location" in
another drawing, but that is a property of the thing that references
them. Similarly, a viewport is a reference to a (parent) drawing
except with a display boundary and a custom layer-list.
--
Bruno
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