Re: make a drawing with Emacs

[tomas]

On Thu, Sep 24, 2020 at 06:09:23PM +0300, Jean Louis wrote:
> * tomas@tuxteam.de <tomas@tuxteam.de> [2020-09-01 11:19]:
> > On Mon, Aug 31, 2020 at 10:52:59PM +0200, Emanuel Berg via Users list for 
> > the GNU Emacs text editor wrote:
> > > Yuri Khan wrote:
> > > 
> > > >>> If you are thinking 3D, then OpenSCAD might suit
> > > >>> you: pametric, script-centric, text-friendly.
> > > >>
> > > >> No no, 2D, top-view! Like an old school
> > > >> engineering drawing, but less detailed. But with
> > > >> real units...
> > > >
> > > > You want 2D, get LibreCAD.
> > > 
> > > I want to write code (data) and then have it
> > > translate into a drawing. See the original post.
> > > So no GUI, no actual "drawing". CAD doesn't sound
> > > like that, but maybe I'm wrong?
> > 
> > TiKZ and OpenSCAD qualify, but they cover different areas (the one
> > is for (gorgeous!) diagranms and the other is for (dimensional)
> > drawings.
> 
> Maybe you wish to say 3D dimensional, as if you only mean dimensional,
> then anything in this world including any types of graphs are
> dimensional.

Sorry, I was unclear: It didn't mean the 3D capability of OpenScad
(which is there) but the possibility of adding measures to the
features (perhaps "dimensioned drawing" is more accurate).

And yes, OpenScad's "internal" format is also text, thus Emacs-friendly.

Cheers
 - t

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