Wilsons Sandbox

How do you do a simple erase, a small piece of a line, etc ?

At 2004-10-28 18:53 +0000 Clem Jensen wrote:

>How do you do a simple erase, a small piece of a line, etc

Clem - use the trim function. That can both extend and shorten lines,
as well as put nice fillets on corners. All you need to do is decide
where the line will get trimmed, either with reference to another
line or arc, or a freehand point. There used to be a very simple
tutorial distributed with CADinosh that explained the basics like
this. Maybe it's not included any more.

regards

Rowland
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I believe I've figured out the trouble I've been having getting my
drawing to print to the scale I want.

If I want my drawing to print at 1/2inch=1foot, I set the units of the
completed drawing (from the Options menu- Drawing) to foot. I also
check the units of dialog edit fields to inch and also choose Type as
fraction and set the precision. I don't change the user defined,
relative to mm.

Then, at the bottom of the drawing, in the scale box, I choose user
define from the bottom of the list and enter 1 divided by 24, which
shows up in the box as 1:24.

This gives me the results I want! It makes sense to me now and doesn't
seem confusing anymore. Thanks for keeping me going guys.

Michael

Here's one for Thorsten - if an angular dimension is edited or its
attributes changed, things seem to go wrong.

I tried to change an angular dimension from 30.0 degrees to 30
degrees by changing the number of decimal places in the dimension
attributes tool. After closing the dialogue box the dimension became
330 with the degree symbol shown twice. It doesn't seem to happen in
all cases, as another angular dimension (15.0 degrees) on the same
drawing did not show the same symptoms.

Also, after using the edit dimension text tool (as an alternative way
to achieve the same effect), an extra (straight) line appears
underneath the text. I wondered if it might be the signal for an
approximate dimension, but I have "don't mark inexact dimensions"
ticked.

Haven't checked yet if these things happen to linear dimensions too.

OS X 10.2.8, CADintosh X 5.0, 5.2 beta

regards

Rowland
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