#GIFDXF
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John,
I picked up on your conversation earlier concerning the meshes created
with gifdxf, but have only recently had the time to try the program….now
I see (or is it don't see) what your talking about. Is the C program
available for general consumption/shareware? If so, I would be interested
in checking it out.
TIA,
JDH
JDH,
I just sent DXFUH.ZIP (DXF Unhide) to you by CIS mail. The .EXE is
there plus the C source for you entertainment. I could upload it to the
forum, but I'd like an independent evaluation first. I sent it to someone
else a month ago but I never heard from him. If it works OK for you, could
you let me know?
The DXFUH unhides ALL the lines in the DXF file, including the diagonal
lines that are normally hidden in a mesh. Not overly elegant, but the best
I could do in one night – solved my immediate problem.
The C source is free and worth every penny! I made no attempt to be
clever, just get the job done. Note that the state machine hard-coded in
the guts may be specific to GIFDXF DXF files since those were all I
analyzed at the time. If the GIFDXF author would simply change one line of
his code, all this would be unnecessary.
Enjoy!
JKJ (helping the blind to see)
John,
Thanks for the files. I'll be trying them out over the course of
this week and will let you know how it works. BTW, I am not a C programmer
(seems like eons since I did all my graphics in AtariBasic on an old Atari
64K machine, not to mention my Sinclair 1000) but have always been
interested. Any suggestions on where and with what to begin?
As to the wait time on AA Pro: my dealer is telling me that once the
order is in <grumble> it should only take 2-3 weeks. Guess I shouldn't take
that too seriously, huh?
JDH
IMHO (don't you just love these acronyms?!), the easiest way to learn C is
with either (Microsoft) QuickC or QuickC for Windows – both are interactive
and let you learn more quickly. I've brought several programmers up to
speed that way.
QC for Windows is especially great – although it's a bit confusing at first
to set up. The advantages are lots: online reference manuals (just a
keypress away for any C function, etc.), COLOR CODED SYNTAX (a REAL
teaching and debugging aid), good debugger, etc. You can write DOS
programs, Windows programs, DLLs, and a hybrid DOS-Windows variant. Good
clean fun!
JKJ (…taking nothing TOO seriously!)
Thanks for the HO, I'll check them out.
JDH
That DXFUH.ZIP file sounds like the sort of utility that I could
really use. Do you know where and how I can get it please? (in one of the
libraries here?) Thanks.
— Steve
I haven't uploaded it – I wanted someone to give it a crash test first.
(runs fine for me, will it work in general?) Jeff Heft has it now and will
check it out. It's only 10K; I'll CIS-mail it to you. JKJ
Thanks.. much appreciated.
— Steve