Re: [Pythoncad-developer] [PythonCAD] Collada format in Python

[Glenn M. <gl...@ch...>]

I agree that Collada file format does not look very useful for a 2D CAD
program such as PythonCAD.
 
There are however several Pythom libraries available to work with Collada
files.
Just Google: Python Collada

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From: pythoncad-bounces+glenn=chr...@py...
[mailto:pythoncad-bounces+glenn=chr...@py...] On Behalf Of
ger...@gm...
Sent: Sunday, December 20, 2009 1:44 PM
To: Yagnesh Desai
Cc: pyt...@py...; pyt...@li...
Subject: Re: [PythonCAD] Collada format (xml based 3D data transfer)


Hi Yangnesh,

Did you look at the schema?
The collada schema only supports a subset of the geometric entities
PythonCAD support.
I PythonCAD was a full 3D CAD program you had a point but I don't see the
use for a 2D CAD program.
You can never make PythonCAD read or write a collada file without
significant loss of data.

I think this is not in line with the original principles of PythonCAD:
* a 2D CAD program
* fully programmed in python.

Are there any common file formats for 2D CAD files besides dxf?

Regards,
Gertwin


On Dec 20, 2009 6:09pm, Yagnesh Desai <yn...@ln...> wrote:
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> Friends;
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> Pythoncad uses xml based format to save the file
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> now this is Non-Standard format (ie not based on
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> any of the published standard) and cannot
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> be opened by any other softwares.
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> I came across this Collada format
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> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COLLADA
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> while looking at Google Sketchup.
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> (There must be something in this format
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> as google sketchup is supporting it out of box . . !)
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> If we migrate to (or support) something like such
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> a format we might make pythoncad more utilizable.
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> There are host of softwares supporting this format.
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> Regards
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> Yagnesh Desai
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