#421 service network plugin

[L@u]

A plug-in to manage all networks (electricity, computers, TV, telephone, water, drain, heating, ...) would be interesting.
It will allow to define the outlets but also the cabling (and compute lengths as well).
Ideally the cabling and the outlets would be shown in different layers (if that will be ever supported).

[enfant_terrible]

While this is quite complex, a first and more simple iteration would be to allow be able to add just outlets of different pre-defined categories (like the current door and window categories; new categories could be e.g. light switch, socket etc). This would e.g. allow to generate floor plans with the corresponding standard symbols in the right places -- like this http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Symbol_circuit_breaker_%28one-pole%29.svg?uselang=de for light switch etc. BTW, these symbols as found on wikipedia or wikimedia commons are public domain SVGs, so they could be used!
( Generation of such floor plans could be done via export to dxf, which is requested here: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=3112745&group_id=152568&atid=784668 ).

[enfant_terrible]

I've now had a look into the plugin tutorial and javadoc and found out that there's already the planIcon property which can be used for such symbols, though planIcon (which is a Content instance) cannot read SVGs yet (SweetHome3D 2.6 under Ubuntu 11.04 here), so I have to use PNGs.

So I guess having SVG support for Content fields, and possibly something like a fixed or minimum size for the planIcons (as many of the relevant objects -- light switches, sockets etc. are relatively small), would already solve part of this feature request. Then we could add those public domain SVG symbols I mentioned in my last comment to the electric service outlets already present in the Contributions models library...

As for the other part, I'm requesting an 'Option to export "pure" floor plan (walls, doors, windows)' here: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=3422682&group_id=152568&atid=784668