Glenn - thanks for your kind words - maybe it>I have noticed that you appear to be quite knowledgable about CADintosh
just looks that way because I talk too much, as
I'm sure there are others much more knowledgeable
than me.
I'm replying to the CADintosh e-mail list as well
as to your own address - it may be of some use to
others to have these exchanges in the public
domain.
I'm sure there was at least a demo library with>Symbol libraries -- none came with the program
my copy. however, I have downloaded others from
the lemkesoft website - I quote here from the
documentation for it:
= = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = =
The following symbol librarys are available:
Drawing tools
Frames and headers
Oberflächenzeichen
Welding notes
Verbindungsmittel
HEX-Nut
HEX-Skrew
HEX-Bolt
Schlitzschrauben
Zylinderschrauben
Schloßschrauben
Cylindric Pins
Splinte
Row Material
Beams
Winkel
Channel
Z-Stahl
Krane rails
Sonderprofile
Smybols
Hydraulic symbols
Eletric symbols
Procedure symbols
Architecture
Vehicles
Humans
Sign
The librarys are available from http://www.lemkesoft.com
= = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = =
Incidentally, I observe from the content of some
libraries that Thorsten (or someone close to him)
is a model railway fanatic - there is one library
dedicated to Marklin rail sections.
I've not come across that problem as I haven't>I created one of common house plan
>symbols, but now I want to use them at a
>different scale that they were created at and
>when I
>use them in the new drawing they are like minatures-- way to small
tried to use symbols in drawings at scales
different to those in which the symbols were
created. Have you tried, after inserting the
symbol into your drawing, using the "change
attributes" item from the "symbol" menu? That
allows you to change the X & Y scaling of the
selected symbol, and to rotate it.
That's OK for one-offs. but long-term, I suspect
you may need to generate libraries in all the
scales you frequently use. I am open to
correction on that. There's probably an easy way
to change the scale of existing symbols, but I
don't know it off the top of my head.
BTW, I think you can submit your libraries for
inclusion in the lemkesoft website. If you think
others might like to avoid re-inventing the
wheel, you could do that as a public service. You
can also upload files to the Yahoo group server;
but for libraries I think the lemkesoft site
would be a better central clearing-house.
I suspect that as Thorsten lives in a metric>I am having major problems with scale. My
>drawings need to be in feet/inches and need to
>be drawn/dimensioned using fractions. Haven't figured that one out yet.
country, he does not have wide experience with
the imperial system and so some aspects of that
may not be as satisfactory as the metric units.
Although Margaret Thatcher prematurely turned off
the UK's change to the metric system, we are
slowly getting there, and I almost always find it
easier to draw in metric units. I have little
experience of using imperial units in CADintosh,
and would defer to someone more practised to give
definitive advice. However, it appears that all I
have to do to get drawings dimensioned in feet,
inches and fractions of an inch, is as follows:
From "options" menu choose "drawing..." and
select "unit of the complete drawing" to be
"foot", "type" to be "fraction" and "unit of
dialogue edit fields" to be "inch".
From "options" menu choose "dimension..." and
select the "creation" tab. Choose the "type" to
be "fraction" and the precision as required.
I think Thorsten says in his documentation that>You mention a manual. All I have access to is
>the Introduction and the User Guide - neither
>of which would qualify as a manual. I worked
>through the Introduction successfully, and the
>User Guide is just that -- a guide. Is there
>something more comprehensive out there.
it is _not_ meant to teach people how to use a
CAD program - but I've not seen any resource that
does set out to teach such skills. There's
probably something published (or maybe even
courses you can go on) for AutoCAD users, but
that is probably so specific to the AutoCAD tools
and feature-set that it would be of little use to
a CADintosh user.
I know that while some things are common to many
CAD applications, many of the things I've learnt
in CADintosh do not transfer across to TurboCAD
Mac (& vice versa). The user community of each
application is probably not big enough to justify
a commercially-produced manual going into more
detail than what Thorsten's already does.
Hagen Henke has produced a great manual for
Thorsten's other product, GraphicConverter. I
guess that is the sort of thing you're looking
for, which not only tells you the basic functions
of the program, but how to use them to achieve
many useful things.
For now, probably the best way forward is to ask
for help when you come across a specific problem.
That way, the archives of the list will gradually
develop into something more useful.
I suggest that you direct future queries to>I'm glad to know that there is a support group out there
; that will reach
the most people who use CADintosh, and will get
archived for future searches.
regards
Rowland
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