Delmer

It quite possibly could be that you have the same font located in more than one place in your system. You could try a search through your drive to see if there is a fonts folder in one of the applications or in more than one place amongst the system folders. - Or it could be the particular font you are using. You could try a basic Times or Arial to see if it behaves the same. [ 05-10-2005, 10:22 PM: Message edited by: Delmer ]

My limited understanding of the definition of a line in a vector program would be a given area within a specified distance from all points laying directly between A and B. Meaning the ends are by definition radiused. Rasters on the other hand would be delineated by pixels. You might try filling your wall with an image. Only thing is you would have to adjust your angle on every 'line'.

Tropics, depending on how important your goal is, there is the option of deselecting the show dim value and just using text. I have to admit though I've never seen dims laid out the way you want, are you sure the end users will understand? Typically I use a leader coming off the line to pull tight numbers to a better location (ACAD allows you to just grab the number and automatically creates a leader, keeping the dim live). There are extensive posts on dims in the wish list. [ 05-11-2005, 01:09 PM: Message edited by: Delmer ]

Not the most sophisticated, but from the view you want to match extrude a simple rectangle straight back, copy it into your file, use the set 3D working plane tool on the face of the rectangle. Post again if you have trouble.

quote: If I could give the contractor a scaled model of the building instead of plans, I would be in design heaven. The Patkaus (sp?) did a school for a native community in British Columbia and did just that. I'm sure they did have drawings, but there were enough unique aspects to the design and they were using local, largely unskilled, labor so built a big, I think half scale, model (for those that live in the saner parts of the world that mean 1/2" = 1'-0"). It was literally to be used to take measurements off of. [ 05-06-2005, 07:46 PM: Message edited by: Delmer ]

I guess I really don't have a specific answer other than if the object itself is locked, the complete record format for that object is likewise locked.

In a similar fashion to the Use at Creation checkbox used with classes, it would be good to have more independant control over text. One thought might be to have text attributes assignable in classes; font, size, whether it can be flipped or not. It would at least be a good thing to be able to have the main body of text self-adjusted but be able to turn it off for certain blocks.

Ron, I think the constrain tangent is probably working fine, only problem is when drawing circles the thing that is tangent is the construction line, be it diameter 3-point or radius. It would a good thing to have it create the actual object tangent. In the meantime, try using the Parametric, Constrain Tangent (though I'm not sure if the parametric constraints are in the base package if that is what you are using).

Joel, sounds like you might want to keep personal copies of common files, maybe use an automated backup software.

Saved the settings in my default.sta file and seems good.

I did just get the situation Tom has described in a file I had started a while back. Just had to set the Callout Preferences Leader Options in my case. The setting saves in the file fine, but the "All new docs" check doesn't seem to apply. [ 05-06-2005, 04:05 PM: Message edited by: Delmer ]

I'm guessing that there is a VA Preference set in one, likely the older, file. You might try temporarily setting the VA Preference sets to VA Defaults while you are copying items. File>Preferences>Set Project Prefs . . .

Hi Mat, sorry to say I don't have the problem on my Windows machine that you are getting. My OIP controls WGR classes as I would expect.

I much prefer the type of menu that spreads across the screen like the font selection over the menus that use the little arrows at top and bottom as seen in classes, hatches etc.

There is very likely a much better way, but one method would be to convert the extrude to 3d polys, delete top and bottom and 3/4 of the sides. You could likely be left with 6 or 8 pairs of triangles, use the set working plane to get proper orientation and rotate each flat. Mirror to get the other 3/4 back. Old school would say use a hot wire and foam or a band saw and wood to make a solid, wrap your paper and cut.

Sorry, apparently only the DWF Viewer is free. The DWF Composer which contains the DWG Viewer you have to pay for.

That's a good reminder. For those that don't have ACAD to check their output, I think the free Autodesk DWF Composer has a DWG Viewer. If someone knows for sure it would be good to verify. Though I can certainly understand why you would want to export sheets, in order to hopefully maintain simplicity, I try to just export specific items from design layers to model view. The only sheet item I export is my TB and let the engineers put them together. http://usa.autodesk.com/adsk/servlet/index?siteID=123112&id=2952277&linkID=4083878

Oh, sorry, I never looked. Use ctrl-C ctrl-v.

I like Art*lantis better though it is (often) still a wee bit cartoony. There are of course little things you have to find out about where certain functions are, but it is overall quite intuitive in comparison to most. There are much better renderers but unfortunately going through DWG with its inherent complications is almost always necessary. I'm not sure where to find them anymore but there are plug-ins for VW (my VW version 9 plugs still work). As a disclaimer I should say my rendering experiments are a couple years removed. I've not looked beyond RenderWorks or Art*lantis recently. I'm also interested to hear what others think.

Sure, you can cut or copy, just make sure you have the same number of cells selected in the paste area as you did when you copied. You can also copy into the text tool outside the worksheet, though not the grid.

Yup, its simple the second time through anyway.

Keep in mind that if you don't get it just right the first time you can edit the various components by double-clicking them. If your path is straight, you can do a simple profile extrude and use it in your solid subtraction.

Draw a closed path profile, draw a poly or line to run the course of the path, extrude the profile along the path. Place this object where it wants to be in relation to your solid element, subtract solids.

Under the Page menu, in Set Grid you can enter a grid angle (whether or not you have the grid showing). This will show you an I and J dimension at the top of the screen as you draw but the OIP on rectangles still only shows the X,Y unfortunately.

I'm curious what your final goal is, there may be alternate ways to accomplish it. The question you ask cannot be immediately done as in ACAD, much to the glee/disdain of ACAD users. Depending on what you're after you might try drawing your 3 circles and then using the parametric "Constrain Tangent" to connect them.