PythonCAD One Year Report

PythonCAD was first publicly released on December 21, 2002, and after one year of development it is worthwhile to reflect on the status of the development efforts of the past year. The capabilities of the program have grown by leaps and bounds when comparing the eleventh release to the initial one. There are still some obvious shortcomings in the program, too. The saying Rome was not built in a day certainly applies here.

The comments below are a small collection of my thoughts after working on the program this year, and what I want to accomplish as development continues onward. Summarizing the highlights of the year in both good points and bad points seems a reasonable way to present my thoughts, so without further ado, here is how things looked as of December 30, 2004.

Good Points

Here is a summary of the things that I believe have gone well over the first year of PythonCAD development:


Bad Points

One cannot have good points without a few bad ones as well. Here are a few things that I think did not go so well this year. The bugs or design defects in the code will hopefully be removed shortly.


Onward And Upward

So with one year of development completed, where does PythonCAD go from here? Here are a few goals for the coming year:

These lists are not necessarily complete, especially what is given for the goals over the coming year. It would be great to have all of these goals met by December, 2004, as well as some of the other design ideas given elsewhere on the website. Hopefully the 2004 year in review page will list these goals as being met, and the new challenges that arise this coming year will be the starting points for development over the following year.