DXF and AutoCAD again

1999-03-22 Thread Fabrizio Massara
Dear All, due to many requests about writing on DXF files, I think to do something useful even for the future to provide to the list sample code I wrote time ago to write lines and text for a CAD application. The code is written with Microsoft® Visual Basic® 5.0, but it can be easily converted

Sun compass

1999-03-22 Thread francois.pineau2
Hello, I thank all persons who help me in my search about Suncompass. I will put all informations I received on a web site . I will give you the adress of this one. But I still have any questions. Is somebody Knows if other army than US have used this device or similar device? Is this

Re: capuchin dial

1999-03-22 Thread Jim_Cobb
The 007 Capuchin Dial is a PostScript program written initially by Eric MacPhereson, University of Manitoba and with a later revision by Andrew J Irwin, c/o Math 007, University of Toronto [...] Luke, Thank you for sending the info on the capuchin sundial. This looks fascinating. It

Re: capuchin dial

1999-03-22 Thread Jim_Cobb
Whenever you don't understand something, just reveal that ignorance to many people and then perhaps you'll understand... At least, I think that just happened to me. I think the key is that I don't cut out the 'slit and surrounding flap' completely, but leave it attached on the side opposite the

Latin motto

1999-03-22 Thread John Davis
Can you classicists out there help a poor engineer with the translation of the motto which I recently came across on a 17th or 18th century stained glass dial? It reads: SIC VITA NVLLA DIES SINE LINEA I think that's the right word order but it's just possible that LINEA, comes before the DIES