What I did with Rev last month

Joe Lewis Wilkins pepetoo at cox.net
Wed Jul 4 19:07:16 EDT 2007


Thanks for the info Andre.

Joe Wilkins

On Jul 4, 2007, at 2:31 PM, Andre Garzia wrote:

> 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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