Re: a future Dia package for geometrically precise mathematicalfigures?

[Alan Horkan <horkana tcd ie>]

On Mon, 16 Sep 2002, Cyrille Chepelov wrote:

> Date: Mon, 16 Sep 2002 14:53:30 +0200
> From: Cyrille Chepelov <cyrille@chepelov.org>
> Reply-To: dia-list@gnome.org
> To: dia-list@gnome.org
> Subject: Re: a future Dia package for geometrically precise mathematical
>     figures?
>
> Le Mon, Sep 16, 2002, à 06:41:56AM -0500, josac@mac.com a écrit:
>
>
> > How much of this has been done? How much is possible with Dia?  Are
> > there people out there interested
> > in working on a project like this? Advice or leads and any other
> > feedback is appreciated.
>
> How much has been done ? Practically none. It would be trivial to modify
> PROP_TYPE_POINT to have a property editor widget, giving one of your points
> (exact coordinates).
>
> constraints tools a la AutoCAD or better, SolidWorks, with a constraint
> solver, would be insanely great, but aren't the most trivial thing to do (I
> don't think it would be an unwelcome addition at all !)
>
> 	-- Cyrille

I remember someone mentioned they were considering making a tool to allow
the drawing of N sided polygons (and maybe stars) where the user can
specify N (and i bemoaned that by the time of the next release the
Polygons i drew would be obselete).
I dont have time to find the link for you, hopefully the person who
mentioned it will speak up

i wonder if maybe you could have a guppi plugin and get it to 'plot' the
shapes for you?
http://www.gnome.org/projects/guppi/

Sincerely

Alan Horkan
Dublin, Ireland