What is it?

This Elm package provides functions to create and manipulate SVG elements using the opensolid/geometry data types. You can:

• Draw 2D opensolid/geometry objects as SVG
• Apply OpenSolid-based 2D transformations to arbitrary SVG elements
• Convert SVG between different coordinate systems

Drawing

The lineSegment2d, triangle2d, polyline2d, polygon2d, circle2d, ellipse2d, arc2d, ellipticalArc2d, quadraticSpline2d, cubicSpline2d, point2d, vector2d, direction2d, boundingBox2d and text2d functions all produce standard [Svg msg](http://package.elm-lang.org/packages/elm- lang/svg/latest/Svg#Svg) values that can be included in any SVG diagram:

The appearance of the resulting elements can be customized by adding SVG attributes such as fill and stroke.

Transformation

The scaleAbout, rotateAround, translateBy and mirrorAcross functions behave just like their standard OpenSolid counterparts. You can use them to do things that would be difficult to do using just SVG, such as mirror a fragment of SVG across an arbitrary axis:

Note that these functions will work on any Svg msg, value, not just ones that happen to have been produced with this package! So you can use them as a convenient way to transform SVG that you've produced using some other package.

Coordinate conversion

The relativeTo and placeIn functions allow you to take SVG defined in one coordinate system and convert it to another. For example, you can take SVG defined in a model coordinate system where (0,0) is the center and positive Y is up, and use relativeTo to convert it into SVG in window coordinates for display, where (0,0) is the top left corner and positive Y is down.

placeIn is useful for 'instancing' or 'stamping' a fragment of SVG in many different positions with different orientations:

The render2d function provides a convenient wrapper on top of relativeTo to handle both coordinate conversion and creation of the top-level SVG element.

Installation

Assuming you have installed Elm and started a new project, use elm-package to install opensolid/svg, either by running

elm package install opensolid/svg

in a command prompt inside your project directory or by adding

"opensolid/svg": "3.0.0 <= v < 4.0.0"

to the dependencies field in your project's elm-package.json.

Documentation

Full API documentation is available.

Questions? Comments?

Please open a new issue if you run into a bug, if any documentation is missing/incorrect/confusing, or if there's a new feature that you would find useful (although note that this package is not meant to be general-purpose full-blown SVG package, more just a convenient way to render OpenSolid geometry objects). For general questions about using this package, try:

• Sending me (@ianmackenzie) a message on the Elm Slack - even if you don't have any particular questions right now, just come say hello!
• Posting to the Elm Discourse forums
• Posting to the r/elm subreddit
• Or if you happen to be in the New York area, come on out to the Elm NYC meetup =)

You can also find me on Twitter (@ianemackenzie), where I occasionally post OpenSolid-related stuff like demos or new releases. Have fun, and don't be afraid to ask for help!