WildCAD - a simple 2D drawing application

Dadoum dadoum at protonmail.com
Thu Jan 26 13:23:46 UTC 2023


On Wednesday, 25 January 2023 at 14:36:54 UTC, Johann Lermer 
wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'd like to announce a little project of mine that started some 
> years ago as a C++ application and which I finally managed to 
> port to D. It's called WildCAD and it's a simple 2D drawing 
> program (you know - lines, circles and so on). It uses a 
> command line interface inspired by AutoCAD and features a very 
> immature DXF im- and export.
>
> The application uses a DIY widget set (which comes as a sub 
> project) called WildWidgets. Both can be found at 
> https://gitlab.com/elvin.eu/wildcad.git and 
> https://gitlab.com/elvin.eu/wildwidgets.git
>
> Currently both are restricted to DMD and Linux/X11 only. Sorry 
> for that. On the plus side just very limited dependencies are 
> needed - mostly X11, Cairo and Cups. It's still very rough and 
> using it can be a bit of a challenge.
>
> Any feedback or help is appreciated ;-)

Hello, cool work.

Just a small tip: add screenshots in your readmes. It will make 
people more interested  because when there are none, usually 
people will not take the time to fetch the project to check it 
out.


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