On Sat 25 Sep 2010 17:28 -0500, Ganeshram Iyer wrote: > 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.
Well, I don't know about standards in particular, but I have learned about common practices and at least defacto standards in mechanical drafting. I may be able to help a little in that regard. One thing is that good drafting is a bit of an art and doesn't always fit into 'the rules', so a drawing generator shouldn't be too rigid. It should allow for fine editing. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Start uncovering the many advantages of virtual appliances and start using them to simplify application deployment and accelerate your shift to cloud computing. http://p.sf.net/sfu/novell-sfdev2dev _______________________________________________ BRL-CAD Developer mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/brlcad-devel
