Re: Floor plans?

[Greg Trounson <gregt maths otago ac nz>]

Thank you, that voiced my sentiments pretty much spot on!

So has anybody attempted to create a sheet with house-type stuff?
Or at least point me to a good dia/XML tutorial and I could have a go
myself :)

Greg


Geoff Gerrietts wrote:
> 
> Quoting Greg Trounson (gregt@maths.otago.ac.nz):
> > "Ole-Johan Lauvås" wrote:
> > >
> > > Dia is wrong application for that task. Use Cycas from http://www.cycas.de
> > >
> >
> > Are you sure?  Dia has a lot of potential, and has an "almost there but
> > not quite yet" feel when it comes to floor plans, at least for those of
> > us that don't want something as complicated as Cycas.
> > I also could not locate the CVS tree for cycas.  It appears to be closed
> > source.
> 
> I like the idea. I think the ease with which you can slap together a
> rough floorplan in Visio attests to how Dia could do this quite well.
> 
> I think Cycas and many of the other drafting tools available are quite
> nice, but they really answer a different need than the "drag and drop
> some shapes" approach Dia allows -- more for the person trying to
> model a home than for the person trying to figure out how to shuffle
> his furniture around.
> 
> Or the person trying to make floormaps for his Shadowrun game, for
> that matter. ;)

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