Using python for a CAD program
David Cuthbert
dacut at kanga.org
Mon May 22 10:56:41 EDT 2006
baalbek wrote:
> David Cuthbert wrote:
>> This does not mean the design itself should be stored as an RDBMS. As
>> I've stated previously, CAD data (both electrical and, it appears,
>> mechanical) does not lend itself to RDBMS relationship modeling.
>
> I simply do not agree with this.
>
> A CAD program (like Autocad) is nothing
> but an advanced database editor: the program loads data from a binary
> file and creates its object (in memory) from the tables that it reads
> from the file on the disk.
Well, then, good luck with this. Let us know when you've rediscovered
that simply structuring data in a table does not make an RDBMS.
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