Re: Layers. Are they available in the trial version?

[ptgrowm]

I just downloaded CadIntosh, and seem to be getting along rather well with it. I don't know
how to use the "Layers" command. Is it available only after you register?

I'm used to ME10 with its "Parts" function.

Thank you

Ray

[RowlandCarson]

At 2007-01-18 20:35 +0000 ptgrowm wrote:

>I just downloaded CadIntosh, and seem to be getting along rather
>well with it. I don't know
>how to use the "Layers" command. Is it available only after you register?

Ray - not sure about that - it's been a loooong time, and several
CADintosh versions, since I registered. No doubt Thorsten can give
the definitive answer.

I do think that the layers system is not very intuitive, unlike (say)
ClarisDraw or OmniGraffle which do what I'd expect without a lot of
head-scratching. It took me a while to get what I wanted last time I
used layers. It did all seem to work OK once I figured it out,
though. However, I was trying to do something simple using layers
just the other day (using the latest release, CADintosh X v5.5.2) and
kept being frustrated by my inability to work out the sequence of
instructions to achieve what I thought should be very easy. I was in
a hurry, and so didn't look at the manual, but just did things
another way. Your query makes me now wonder if it's not just me being
stupid, but possibly a bug.

I don't have time to investigate today, but I'll try to check
properly, also open some older files and see if they work OK, then
report back here.

regards

Rowland
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[RowlandCarson]

At 2007-01-18 20:35 +0000 ptgrowm wrote:

>I don't know
>how to use the "Layers" command

Ray - I did a very quick check on an older file and the layer stuff
in that is all OK in the current version of CADintosh. I also created
a new file and whatever I was doing before, it all seems to work OK
now. I did take a look at the manual - when all else fails, read the
instructions!

>I'm used to ME10 with its "Parts" function.

What's ME10?

regards

Rowland
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[ptgrowm]

--- In cadintoshmac@yahoogroups.com, Rowland Carson wrote:

>
> At 2007-01-18 20:35 +0000 ptgrowm wrote:
>
> >I don't know
> >how to use the "Layers" command
>
> Ray - I did a very quick check on an older file and the layer stuff
> in that is all OK in the current version of CADintosh. I also created
> a new file and whatever I was doing before, it all seems to work OK
> now. I did take a look at the manual - when all else fails, read the
> instructions!
>
> >I'm used to ME10 with its "Parts" function.
>
> What's ME10?
>
> regards
>
> Rowland
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> | Wilma & Rowland Carson http://home.clara.net/rowil/
> | ... that's Rowland with a 'w' ...
>

Hi Rowland,

Thanks for answering my post.

Maybe it's me not being used to using layers that could be the problem. ME10 was the
product name of Hewlett Packards 2-D Drawing package. The product was sold off to
CoCreate, which I believe is a german company. The 2-D package is now called Onepace
http://www.cocreate.com/designer_drafting.cfm

ME10 used a convention called "Parts" to isolate and manipulate a single part or group of
parts that lived within a larger assembly.

[RowlandCarson]

At 2007-01-18 20:35 +0000 ptgrowm wrote:

>I just downloaded CadIntosh, and seem to be getting along rather
>well with it. I don't know
>how to use the "Layers" command. Is it available only after you register?

Ray - I forgot your original question when I last responded. Yes,
some useful aspects of the layer system (eg layer definition/naming,
and filtering) are disabled in the unregistered version.

You can move stuff between layers in 2 ways:

using the Layer menu, which affects everything on a layer;

or using the "apply layer" tool from the graphic tool item on the
tool palette, you can move individual entities.

Sorry to be so late with this - I've been a bit swamped with other
stuff in he last few weeks.

regards

Rowland
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