What I did with Rev last month

Andre Garzia andre at andregarzia.com
Wed Jul 4 17:31:20 EDT 2007


Hello Joe,
card making with Rev: http://ezpzapps.com/kartolina/

Jims Sims made this software... it works very well! :-D

Cheers
andre

On 7/4/07, Joe Lewis Wilkins <pepetoo at cox.net> wrote:
>
> Very interesting, Stephen. Had you experience with DXF files before?
> All of you are doing some very creative things with Rev. I just
> received a 4th of July card from one of my sisters. This card looks
> as if it could have been done with Rev. Any chance? If you care to
> see it, this is the link:
>
> <http://www.jacquielawson.com/viewcard.asp?
> code=1243988046186&source=jl999>
>
>
> Joe Wilkins
>
> On Jul 4, 2007, at 1:43 PM, Stephen Barncard wrote:
>
> > A few weeks ago I was in upstate NY producing a record when the
> > project was cancelled so I went to visit some friends near Albany.
> > They're into high end exterior lighting design and use AutoCad
> > drawings to illustrate lamp layouts. When they go out into the
> > field it's important to know the inventory of lamps to take to the
> > job. They use objects in the drawing with three or four character
> > codes to indicate lamps and mountings. But their Autocad is PC, the
> > rest of the office was Mac, and Autocad didn't have the kind of
> > reporting they needed.
> >
> > I had showed up unexpectedly and they were working hard, and I felt
> > like I wanted to contribute rather than take up space, so I figured
> > I'd offer to fix their network or do any kind of cyber-handyman
> > work they needed.
> >
> > They told me they REALLY needed an accurate way to get a listing of
> > lamps/mounts from the drawing. Aha. A challenge. At first they had
> > tried using PowerCADD, which can read AutoCad files directly. But
> > PowerCADD's reporting was hard to use and quite baffling. But
> > powerCADD can export in DXF, a text description language.
> >
> > So I whipped up an executable Mac app that could read a DXF file
> > and report on the lamps found from a list in a field. Total time:
> > about 6 hours, most of which were spent on interface. I even
> > included a custom icon of Bob, the "subgenus" dude. I hid the
> > lookup lists inside the executable, and provided a 'reveal in
> > finder' Applescript call so they could edit the lists in TextEdit.
> > This provided a time shortcut for me so I wouldn't have to take
> > time to make an editor.
> >
> > They seemed very happy with it.
> >
> >> Hello.
> >>
> >> A simple PGP Encrypt/Decrypt program that uses GPG for it's
> >> backend. It's not worthy of publishing, but it certainly gets the
> >> job done.
> >>
> >> Thanks,
> >> Brent Anderson
> >> Fiery Ferret
> >
> > --
> >
> >
> > stephen barncard
> > s a n  f r a n c i s c o
> > - - -  - - - - - - - - -
>
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