Getting in touch

[DuncanLithgow]

Hi there - I'd love it if you could join us on the community.osarch.org forum so we chat about your great little application for 2D CAD

We really need some good options in the FOSS world so it's great to see this here. FOr now I've added the project to https://wiki.osarch.org/index.php?title=Getting_started_with_2D_CAD_drafting but haven't yet had time to make software page for it, you're very welcome to make one yourself. A good template is https://wiki.osarch.org/index.php?title=Inkscape

I hope to see you soon on our forum, maybe in this thread https://community.osarch.org/discussion/815/new-2d-cad-application-cadzinho/

[zecruel]

Hello,

I'm the lone (well, not quite) developer of CadZinho. It started as a personal learning project to develop my programming skills (and also English language skill). I do it in my spare time, kind of as a hobby. I'm not a software development professional.

So the project grew, and reached an interesting level. I know it's necessary to write the documentation, but I haven't been able to organize my time for it yet.

Well, the main objectives of CadZinho are:

• Free software: permissive license, both in its own code and in that of third parties;
• Portable: different platforms and operating systems, no administrator privileges, few external dependencies;
• Extensible: script language (Lua) that allows the addition of new features, automation, customization. Perhaps this is the most ambitious goal, as it intends to make CadZinho a base platform for more specialized applications.

Some features of CadZinho:

• Natively open, view, create and modify DXF files;
• Uses the "modern" DXF standard (2007 version);
• Supported entities;
• Standard colors and line weight;
• Layer management;
• Management and creation of blocks, including attributes;
• Text type management, with support for SHP, SHX, TTF fonts;
• Linetype management, with support for LIN files and complex linetypes (with shapes);
• Hatch management, with support for PAT files
• Exports to PDF, SVG, PS and image print formats;
• Lua scripting language for extension, which allows configuration, macros, custom interface and custom interactive mode.

To do:

• Dimmensions;
• Improve Lua API;
• Layout mode (Paper or print editing mode);
• Polyfaces (maybe 3D support?);

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*Polyfaces (maybe 3D support?);

This kind of stands out from the other goals. I think 3D support is an immense amount of work. So until a clear use case and a clear path forward how to achieve 3D in CZ is known, I'd suggest focusing on the other goals (maybe including constraint editing/solving?).

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Btw. we (Nuklear maintainers) are recently making some more updates to Nuklear and would like to hear from you about your experience with Nuklear. Feel free to chime in our issue tracker and start a discussion.

CZ is one of the biggest apps ever written using Nuklear and we think this could help us in steering the project further.

Thanks!