RE: [Flightgear-users] [OT] Aircraft Drawing Package
I thought of something like this for debugging Yasim models a couple of years back (http://mail.flightgear.org/pipermail/flightgear-users/2002-August/001511.html), but never got anything put together. If this works in 3D, it could be used to generate simple 3D models for external views in FG. So it is not offtopic at all! Richard -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Jon Berndt Sent: 17 August 2005 04:08 To: FlightGear user discussions Subject: RE: [Flightgear-users] [OT] Aircraft Drawing Package I've thought about this occasionally (how many of my posts start like that?). I wonder if there's anything that could do the reverse of that? Take an aircraft drawing (with labeled parts) and turn it into a DATCOM+ file? Jon -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Bill Galbraith Sent: Tuesday, August 16, 2005 7:39 PM To: 'FlightGear user discussions'; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [Flightgear-users] [OT] Aircraft Drawing Package Off Topic - Sorry if I am wasting your time I am looking for a graphics package to draw aircraft from my DATCOM+ configuration files. In that file, I have data available such as airfoil sections, wing span, fuselage cross-sections, horizontal and vertical tail locations, engine locations, etc. I'm not expecting highly detailed drawing, but merely rough pictures of what the aircraft looks like. I think it would help uncover problems in the configuration file. The input would be via a text file, which I can tailor to whatever is needed. I don't want to do any interaction with it (at least not yet). I fully expect to have to do something from scratch, but I thought I would ask first, to see if anyone has anything that they can suggest. Thanks, Bill This e-mail has been scanned for Bede Scientific Instruments for all viruses by Star Internet. The service is powered by MessageLabs. For more information on a proactive anti-virus service working around the clock, around the globe, visit: http://www.star.net.uk ___ Flightgear-users mailing list Flightgear-users@flightgear.org http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-users 2f585eeea02e2c79d7b1d8c4963bae2d
Re: [Flightgear-users] [OT] Aircraft Drawing Package
Bill Galbraith wrote: Off Topic - Sorry if I am wasting your time I am looking for a graphics package to draw aircraft from my DATCOM+ configuration files. In that file, I have data available such as airfoil sections, wing span, fuselage cross-sections, horizontal and vertical tail locations, engine locations, etc. I'm not expecting highly detailed drawing, but merely rough pictures of what the aircraft looks like. I think it would help uncover problems in the configuration file. The input would be via a text file, which I can tailor to whatever is needed. I don't want to do any interaction with it (at least not yet). I fully expect to have to do something from scratch, but I thought I would ask first, to see if anyone has anything that they can suggest. Let me first say that there are at least a hundred million 2d drawing libs available. If you want to add this functionality to an existing application that might steer you in one particular direction or another. If you want to start something from scratch, you'll probably get as many suggestions as there are subscribers to this list. My first knee jerk reaction would be to look at Perl-Tk. That's something I have experience with and the Tk canvas widget will let you do all kinds of 2d drawing, and even some interactive object manipulation if you want to get fancy (i.e. maybe you want to eventually draw the design and have the application kick out the FlightGear/JSBSim configuration file?) If you suspect you might eventually want to have a 3d component to your application, you might want to think about using OpenGL. It's pretty straightforward to set up a 2d drawing surface and then draw lines and text in screen coordinates. FLTK might be an interesting option ... that's a cross platform interactive gui builder that generates C code and is then compiled (i.e. theoretically fast). Perl-Tk is a scripted language so edit / run /debug turn around time is much faster, but it might start to bog down on complicated drawing tasks (but it ought to be more than fast enough for what you are proposing.) There's other ways to approach this too. If you just want to produce a picture, you might look at the GD package for perl. This allows you to open am image drawing surface and draw stuff to it, then save it out to png or jpg file for viewing with any image viewer. I use this approach for the Scenery download map. Of course for those who's brains have opposite polarity compared to mine, you can substitude python where ever I've written perl. I'm sure I'm just scratching the surface here, good luck! Curt. ___ Flightgear-users mailing list Flightgear-users@flightgear.org http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-users 2f585eeea02e2c79d7b1d8c4963bae2d
RE: [Flightgear-users] [OT] Aircraft Drawing Package
I've thought about this occasionally (how many of my posts start like that?). I wonder if there's anything that could do the reverse of that? Take an aircraft drawing (with labeled parts) and turn it into a DATCOM+ file? Jon -Original Message-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]On Behalf Of Bill GalbraithSent: Tuesday, August 16, 2005 7:39 PMTo: 'FlightGear user discussions'; [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: [Flightgear-users] [OT] Aircraft Drawing Package Off Topic - Sorry if I am wasting your time I am looking for a graphics package to draw aircraft from my DATCOM+ configuration files. In that file, I have data available such as airfoil sections, wing span, fuselage cross-sections, horizontal and vertical tail locations, engine locations, etc. I'm not expecting highly detailed drawing, but merely rough pictures of what the aircraft looks like. I think it would help uncover problems in the configuration file. The input would be via a text file, which I can tailor to whatever is needed. I don't want to do any interaction with it (at least not yet). I fully expect to have to do something from scratch, but I thought I would ask first, to see if anyone has anything that they can suggest. Thanks, Bill ___ Flightgear-users mailing list Flightgear-users@flightgear.org http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-users 2f585eeea02e2c79d7b1d8c4963bae2d
