Posted by Rallaz on Sep 18, 2013; 7:47am
URL: https://forum.librecad.org/Some-improvements-for-CAM-usage-tp5708789p5708805.html

Hi Robert,

In addition to what dxli said:

The good site for patches is http://sourceforge.net/p/librecad/patches/ in the forum will be lost between the other threads,
and a good practice is many small patches rather than one large (une patch for plugin, another for start / intermediate / end color, etc.)

The plugin has, at least, an error, I am not the author ;-)
cam is not a good name (too generic) might be the name of a menu in which to add various CAM utilities

 

Effad wrote

 Unfortunately there is no way to access splines from plugins so I am thinking whether I should implement the "Reverse direction" feature directly in the main code.

implement the "Reverse direction" feature directly in the main code is a good idea
and also add support for splines in plugins

 

Effad wrote

 A "connect object" feature which allows to combine multiple single lines into a polyline and multiple polylines into a single (big) polyline and multiple splines into a single spline.

The "connect object" feature for spline are un-inplemented, but, for polyline already exists
see commands under "draw->polyline" in special "Create polyline from existing segments"
segments can be lines, arcs or polylines


TIP, How to revert a polyline:
Draw a line (auxiliary), from some point to last vertex of the polyline
"draw->polyline->Create polyline from existing segments" and select the new created line
at this point, the polyline are reverted but need to remove the first vertex added by the auxiliary line
"draw->polyline->Delete node" select the polyline, activate endpoint snap!!! and click in first vertex to remove.


welcome and greetings,
Rallaz