[PythonCAD] Scale?

[Stuart Brorson]

> >As you note there hasn't been any menu/dialog created to adjust the
> >drawing scale, so by default everything is 1:1. In addition to cooking
> >up a dialog for setting the scale, I'd like to have the scale factor
> >being displayed all the time on the drawing window.
> 
> Does the scale affect drafting in any way, or does it just control 
> printing?

This is an issue staring with drafting.  That is, if I am drawing a
bridge whose basic structural objects are large (10s of feet long),
then the internal representation of the bridge holds all lines,
cicles, etc. in these large units.  Then, when I want to print out, I
can't because the basic drawing would require thousands of individual
sheets of paper tiling the entire drawing.

It also means that I can't put into the drawing a detailed view (say)
of a subsection of the bridge at a different scale.  But that's an
advanced feature. . . . .

The concept of scale factor *does* exist in the program, I just
suspect that it is a feature which isn't fully implemented yet.  I
would like to fix a few other things first (by sending in patches),
and then I don't mind looking at the scale issue.

Stuart