On Sun, 17 Apr 2011 13:10:27 +0530 "Pranav Lal" <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi all, > > I am trying to draw the plan of my house in SVG. I want to draw the > plan like it is drawn in autocad. So, if I start with a rectangle for > the boundary of the house, I want to show a door in the boundary. I > can write the letter "d" for door inside the rectangle but in > Autocad, that bit of the outline is erased. How do I do this in SVG? > > My current diagram looks like this. > > <?xml version="1.0" standalone="no"?> > <svg width="100%" height="100%" viewBox="0 0 600 800" version="1.1" > xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg";> > <rect width="150" height="450"/> > <text x="155" y="160">D</text> > </svg> As usual, there are several ways to handle this. I did a set of similar drawings a fews ago. In the process I tried out several different approaches to doors and windows. 1. Place a rectangle filled with the background color where the door should be. Although this approach is simple, the effect is only visual. The "wall" is still there behind the rectangle. 2. Place a rectangle filled with the background color and stroked with a thin line. Like the previous approach, this is simple, but the effect is still only visual. The "wall" is still there behind the rectangle. 3. Replace the simple rectangle with a path, only drawing lines where the walls actually exist. This approach is more complicated, but it gets a more accurate representation. It was also more necessary in my case, because my house is not rectangular. If you are looking for a "good enough" image, to see what you can get without investing a bunch of time, the first two approaches do work relatively well. G. Wade -- Simplicity and elegance are unpopular because they require hard work and discipline to achieve and education to be appreciated. -- Edsger Dijkstra ------------------------------------ ----- To unsubscribe send a message to: [email protected] -or- visit http://groups.yahoo.com/group/svg-developers and click "edit my membership" ----Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/svg-developers/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/svg-developers/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: [email protected] [email protected] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
