Re: Floor plans?

[Ole-Johan Lauvås <joloevaa start no>]

Dia is wrong application for that task. Use Cycas from http://www.cycas.de

On Wed, 27 Feb 2002 15:16:39 +1300
Greg Trounson <gregt@maths.otago.ac.nz> wrote:

> Greetings,
> 
> I have used the latest version of Dia to draw up a floorplan of an
> existing split-level house.  
> 
> This was no easy task, as none of dia's built-in widgets have common
> floorplan-style symbols such as walls, windows and doors.  I instead
> resorted to a combination of lines, polygons and bezier curves.  It also
> revealed (IMHO) a few shotcomings of dia, especially in the area of
> scaling to arbitrary units.  I gave up on trying to make it to scale in
> the end.
> 
> Is there any plan to incorporate a widget/shape/sheet (pardon my
> terminology, I don't know what they're really called) with building plan
> graphics?  I understand that making plug-in shapes and sheets in XML is
> relatively easy.  Has anyone done this?
> 
> I recall visio having menus where you could insert benchtops, tables,
> and "Room Measurement" widgets.
> 
> thank you,
> Greg
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