I don't think, many of us here have much spare time. I work 7 days a week at
my job alone. I do plan to start(volunteer)
a Hotline ftp server for rotary engine info, when I get my cable modem
installed. I haven't thought of all the guide lines yet,
but I will probably require basic info in text format, text with
pictures(MSWORD), maybe PDF, Spreadsheet(EXCEL), CAD
in dxf, pictures in jpg, gif, etc. To a point, yes, there is no perfect cad
file standards, but if we can agree, in the real computing
world, most people use Microsoft Word(wordprocessing), Excel(spreadsheet).
With all the Free/low cost 2D/3D CAD programs
out there, on the net, we as a group can standardize to say one simple Cad,
Cad/Cam program for submitting your idea's to the
group so that wouldn't be a problem. People who work every day with dxf CAD
files from mulitude's of programs are use to this.
Yes, they may have to clean them up once in a while. At least they get 99.9%
of the info they need in the dxf file. When you get
just a Jpg, Gif of a drawing, a 1000+ members have to go through the work of
redrawing it into there own cad program. That's what
I mean, by focusing more on the problems here, save time, save money, save
reinventing the wheel. Why keep duplicating
what someone else has already done. That's where a database of info comes in
handy. We all have something we can contribute
here. But nobody knows who, what, where, when.