Hello all,
Let me introduce myself. My name is Ganeshram Iyer (Ganesh for short). I was
contacted a few weeks ago by Sean to contribute to the brlcad project and I
humbly accepted.
After some brief discussion, Sean suggested the "catalog generator" project
- i.e. a tool that will take a 3D model and automatically produce a set of
useful 2D drawings from it. I do have some experience with creating 2D
drawings from 3D models and readily agreed to work on this idea. Sean
expanded the goals of this project, briefly, as:
Defining the look/layout/feel for what a given 2D 'blueprint' might be like.
> What syntactic, semantic, pragmatic information could be and needs to be
> included? What would an example sheet look like (exact prototype mock-up)?
> Are there existing drafting document standards that we could conform to?
> Should we? What does STEP have to say about standard drawings and drafting
> formats?
I will initially be looking to do the leg-work to research the standards,
current practices and competitors' approaches on how the 2D drawing
generator could/should be done. I hope to dedicate at least a few hours a
week to this project at the beginning and will email my progress to the
group as I make significant advances.
If any of you have performed (or begun) such leg-work already for this
project and are willing to share your work I would be most happy to receive
such work. Additionally any advice you can give to a novice open-source
contributor is also most welcome.
Am looking forward to working with a project as well known as BRL-CAD.
Wish me luck.
Thanks
Ganesh
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Ganeshram Iyer
Open Source and CAD: http://ossandcad.blogspot.com
[email protected]
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