PerlCAD Development Plan

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Version 0.0 - February 2010 - ? - Open GL Based Proof of Concept

General

Functioning OpenGL
Basic UI Layout
Commandline parsing
LINE command
PAN command
ZOOM command
PS Output

Version Pre 0.0 - 01/Aug/2003 - 01/Feb/2004 - QT Based Proof of Concept

General

Functioning PerlQt
Basic UI Layout
Create DB Backend - In memory
Create DB Backend - SQL Lite
File Open Dialog
Basic DXF Reading
Be able to draw a line
Be able to draw a circle
Working Grid
Working Snap
Working Ortho
Working Zoom
Read and draw lines of document
Save out lines of document
File New
File Save
File Save As...
File Exit
Working Layer
Working Color
Working Width
Working Linetype
Actions Abstraction
System Icon Importing
Basic Configuration Reading

Features

Draw - Line
Draw - Circle (Center / Radius)
Draw - Circle (2 Point)
Draw - Circle (3 Point)
Draw - Rectangle
Draw - Polyline
Draw - Text (basic)
Modify - Erase
Support for blocks
Tools - Run Script...
View - Vports (Basic viewport support)

Command Entry

Take commands from Command line
Take commands from STDIN
Return necessary output to all commandlines
Keep Command History
Take commands from toolbars
Execute Commands
Review History
Tab complete

Version Pre - 0.1 - - Initial release

General

Improved DXF Reading
Save configuration
Object Snap Modes
Object Browser Window
Properties Window
Dialog - Grid/Snap/Ortho
Dialog - Paths
Dialog - Object Snap
Tools - Macro

Features

Selection - By Element
Selection - Window / Crossing Window / Fence
Grips
Modify - Line
Modify - Point
Draw - Ray
Draw - Construction Line
Draw - Arc =>
Draw - Circle => TTR
Draw - Donut
Draw - Block =>
Tools - Display Order (Bring to Front, Send to Back, Bring Above Object, Send Under Object)

Version 0.2 - -

General

Add Viewpoints support
Load Viewpoint
Save Viewpoint
Move Vewpoint
Add UCS support
Load UCS
Save UCS
Move UCS
Orthographic UCS (0,0,1 ; 0,0,-1 ; 0,1,-1 ; etc)

Features

Draw - Multiline
Draw - Polyline
Draw - Polygon
Draw - Ellipse =>
Draw - Spline

Version Pre - 0.3 - -

General

Measure 2d area (properties dialog)
Measure 2d circumference (prop dia)
Measure 2d moment of initia (prop dia)

Features

Draw - Hatch...
Draw - Boundary...
Draw - Region

Version Pre - 0.4 - -

General

Dialog - fonts
Fonts - cxf support
Fonts - ttf support ?
Text - Explode to letters
Text - Explode to lines

Features

Draw - Text
Draw - Mtext
Draw - Text along path

Version Pre - x.x - -

General

Features

Complete
In Progress
Not Started


Edit - Copy
Edit - Paste
Edit - Paste Properties
Edit - Paste into layer
Edit - Properties (duplicate of Modify - Properties and properties window)
Dimensions

Save Block
Insert Block
Create Block

Acad - Tools - Spelling
Acad - Tools - Quick Select...
Acad - Options - Toolbars
Acad - Options - Menues

Draw - Graph
Draw - Points on line (by number or distance)

Draw - Insert Image
Draw - 3D Polyline
Draw - Surfaces =>
Draw - Solids =>

Work Sets (selection sets)

Dimension

Bind - Point to Point
Bind - Point to Fixed
Bind - Point to Snap

Modify - Erase
Modify - Copy
  Copy
  ------
  Multiple Copy
  Multiples
  ------
  Copy/Rotate
  Copy/Pick/Rotate
  ------
  Copy2Layer
  Copy2Layer, Type it
  Copy to Clayer
Modify - Mirror
Modify - Offset
Modify - Array
Modify - Change
Modify - -----
Modify - Move
Modify - Rotate
Modify - Scale
Modify - Stretch
Modify - Lengthen
Modify - Extend and Trim
Modify - Break
Modify - Chamfer
Modify - Fillet
Modify - Redifine Block
Modify - -----
Modify - Region
Modify - Align Entities
Modify - -----
Modify - Hide Entity(s)
Modify - Explode

File - Save Selected