Very interesting, Stephen. Had you experience with DXF files before?
All of you are doing some very creative things with Rev. I just
received a 4th of July card from one of my sisters. This card looks
as if it could have been done with Rev. Any chance? If you care to
see it, this is the link:
<http://www.jacquielawson.com/viewcard.asp?
code=1243988046186&source=jl999>
Joe Wilkins
On Jul 4, 2007, at 1:43 PM, Stephen Barncard wrote:
A few weeks ago I was in upstate NY producing a record when the
project was cancelled so I went to visit some friends near Albany.
They're into high end exterior lighting design and use AutoCad
drawings to illustrate lamp layouts. When they go out into the
field it's important to know the inventory of lamps to take to the
job. They use objects in the drawing with three or four character
codes to indicate lamps and mountings. But their Autocad is PC, the
rest of the office was Mac, and Autocad didn't have the kind of
reporting they needed.
I had showed up unexpectedly and they were working hard, and I felt
like I wanted to contribute rather than take up space, so I figured
I'd offer to fix their network or do any kind of cyber-handyman
work they needed.
They told me they REALLY needed an accurate way to get a listing of
lamps/mounts from the drawing. Aha. A challenge. At first they had
tried using PowerCADD, which can read AutoCad files directly. But
PowerCADD's reporting was hard to use and quite baffling. But
powerCADD can export in DXF, a text description language.
So I whipped up an executable Mac app that could read a DXF file
and report on the lamps found from a list in a field. Total time:
about 6 hours, most of which were spent on interface. I even
included a custom icon of Bob, the "subgenus" dude. I hid the
lookup lists inside the executable, and provided a 'reveal in
finder' Applescript call so they could edit the lists in TextEdit.
This provided a time shortcut for me so I wouldn't have to take
time to make an editor.
They seemed very happy with it.
Hello.
A simple PGP Encrypt/Decrypt program that uses GPG for it's
backend. It's not worthy of publishing, but it certainly gets the
job done.
Thanks,
Brent Anderson
Fiery Ferret
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stephen barncard
s a n f r a n c i s c o
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