New Beta Release 0.6.2

[Manfred Moitzi]

New features:

• NEW: create new layouts - Drawing.create_layout(name, dxfattribs=None)
• NEW: delete layouts - Drawing.delete_layout(name)
• NEW: delete blocks - Drawing.blocks.delete_block(name)
• NEW: read DXF files from zip archives (its slow).
• CHANGE: LWPolyline returns always 5-tuples (x, y, start_width, end_width, bulge). start_width, end_width and bulge is 0 if not present.
• NEW: LWPolyline.get_rstrip_points() -> generates points without appending zeros.
• NEW: LWPolyline.rstrip_points() -> context manager for points without appending zeros.
• BUGFIX: fixed handle creation bug for DXF12 files without handles, a code 5/105 issue
• BUGFIX: accept floats as int (thanks to ProE)
• BUGFIX: accept entities without owner tag (thanks to ProE)
• improved dxf2html; creates a more readable HTML file; usage: python -m ezdxf.dxf2html filename.dxf

Planned for next version:

• support for BODY, 3DSOLID, REGION, SURFACE, you can get/set the ACIS data as plain text
• compressed data for unused binary data and unused sections (THUMBNAILIMAGE)
  

Best regards,

Manfred