[Tugindia] POVRay: AutoCAD like?
H S Rai
tugindia@tug.org
Sun, 13 Oct 2002 22:39:33 +0530 (IST)
A few days back CVR wrote:
> ... enlighten users with newer technologies like integration of
> Povray into TeX.
I must thank CVR to introduce politely POVRay to subscribers. A lot of
good softwares are available, but problem is how to find right
one. Mostly we limit our choice what is available around us, and we
fail to do proper survey even in this era of information technology.
As I could undersatnd, POVRay is wonderful software to create scenes
and even animation. Can we use this as an "Engineering Drawing"
package such as AutoCAD. As most of engineers (Civil, Mechanical) need
such package to produce orthogonal projection (Elevations, Plans) with
dimensions, where rendering is not required. Now my question is as:
Can we use POVRay for this purpose? If not, can anyone suggest any
other software available to fullfil such requirement.
I could not find feature equivalent to "pline" of AutoCAD in any
drafting packages (free/opensource) tried by me on Linux so far. With
"pline" you can draw a combination of line segments and arcs in a
variety of way, with different line width and also variable line
width.
--
H.S.Rai
Q: How did you get into artificial intelligence?
A: Seemed logical -- I didn't have any real intelligence.