16 Sep
2009
16 Sep
'09
noon
On Wed, 16 Sep 2009, Brent Hilpert wrote:
try out Cameron's Classilla for an improved
browser, but I've been meaning to
ask here about ClarisDraw/MacDraw for awhile.
I have hundreds of pages of reverse-engineered schematics of old equipment,
drawn in ClarisWorks. It's my own 'symbol library' so I don't expect to
be able
to convert them easily to some common CAD schematic capture, but does anyone
know of a conversion or upgrade path to pull these into the future (or
present), besides printing and scanning them?
Alternatively, is the file format definition out there in public, so I might
write a conversion program some day?
Over the past 2-3 years or so there have been several applications that will
read the ClarisDraw file format. However, to the best of my knowledge none
of them will read a custom 'symbol library', I have a library of my own
symbols as well, and haven't tried to read it with anything else. I forget
what the app I have that will read them is called, I like it more for
converting than for using as a drawing program.
One of these days, after I move to a more modern Mac, I want to demo the
various CAD packages that are available. I've been thinking, and I suspect
that a CAD app is likely to be more to my liking than any of the drawing
apps (I even own Adobe Illustrator and hate it).
Zane