[Therion] Converting Inkscape Drawings of very large caves into Therion

[Ladislav Blažek]

 sorry "equate scrap1 scrap2" should be "join scrap1 scrap2"

 L.

 On Thu, 24 Feb 2011 15:44:57 +0200, Ladislav Blažek <lada at blazcata.cz> 
 wrote:
> On Thu, 24 Feb 2011 13:56:57 +0000, Footleg <drfootleg at gmail.com> 
> wrote:
>> After an excellent and most educational workshop on Therion run by
>> Andrew Atkinson last weekend, I have finally started to get my teeth
>> into the program. What I am attempting to do is find a way to 
>> convert
>> surveys drawn up in other software into Therion projects without
>> having to redraw everything. My current aim is to get the passage
>> walls in so that I can build various models from my surveys. So far 
>> I
>> have learned enough to get the passage walls from Inkscape into a 
>> th2
>> file using the Inkscape plug-in. The difficulties now come in 
>> deciding
>> how to break these very large surveys up into managable size pieces.
>> The XTherion map editor is unmanageably slow when I import the 
>> entire
>> cave into a single th2 file.
>>
>> Right now I've not got specific questions and am finding my way OK.
>> But I wonder has anyone already written any help on how to do what I
>> am trying to do? Especially when to split parts of the cave into
>> separate scraps, and how to make sure that maps drawn in separate 
>> th2
>> files join smoothly in the model? Some tips and guidance would be 
>> very
>> useful to avoid pitfalls. So if someone can point me at some help
>> (I've not managed to find any on the wiki) that would be great. If
>> none exists then I will start making notes so that I can contribute
>> what I learn to the wiki as an example.
>>
>> Footleg
>
> There are I think only 3 simple rules:
>
> 1. one scrap should not overlap itself
> 2. one scrap scrap should not contain more then approx. 100 m of
> passages in 1:100 scale (MetaPost limit)
> 3. passages should be divided into scraps in most simple places - if
> you will follow this recommendation then "equate scrap1 scrap2" is
> enough for joining two scraps.
>
> L.
>
>
>
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