Julie Porter wrote: >>As has been pointed out, PS is a printing language and not that good >>for technical drawings. >> >> Michael > > Too right. And this from someone who used it daily for years. > DXF is the best way to archive documents. > > PDF has it's uses. I have not upgraded in a while, it is possible it caught > rampid-featuritise. There were books at Frys that described it. > > JPEG is fitting a round peg into a square hole. > > I would however question the longevity of something like turbo CAD. Anyone > remember Generic CAD? Now that was a really good program. > > DXF and it's cousin Gerber are plaintext ASCII.
I agree completely- in my former life as a double-E, I did lots of manipulation of DXF and gerber files to automatically create drawings and gerber plot files from coordinate lists. If a given CAD package produces a DXF which can't be immediately read by another, any decent programmer can can find the offending DXF text and fix it. Proprietary formats are dangerous. DXF is often the only way to port a drawing from TurboCad to Autocad and vice versa. (I've had an aversion to TurboCad ever since I first experienced it's GHODDAMNED LEFT-HANDED 3D coordinate system in 1997. To an EE who has the right hand rule permanently ingrained, this was impossible to overcome.) Using DXF for transfers discourages use of the over-cute features any cad package, helping one focus on the details instead of the fluff. Doug _______________________________________________ ERPS-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.erps.org/mailman/listinfo/erps-list
