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j45on:
--- Quote from: John Stevenson on May 26, 2011, 05:49:41 PM ---Short on documentation ?
186 page manual here free for download.
http://www.3ds.com/fileadmin/PRODUCTS/DRAFT_SIGHT/PDF/GETTING-STARTED-GUIDE.pdf
John S.
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I have been following that and I have managed to draw some of the panels for a wooden puzzle box :ddb:
I could not figure out how to draw a simple square with the last program I had :palm:
I am getting there slowly :D
DaveH:
Jason,
Well done, :clap: :clap: :clap: you know what they say "practice makes perfect" :thumbup:
:beer:
DaveH
kwackers:
I tried to draw a cylinder for a steam engine using it. All went well, even felt like I was getting the hang of it! Draw a box here, relative to that one there, mirror that object etc etc.
But then when I came to dimension it, the dimensioning arrows are bigger than the cylinder! In fact if I shrink the image to make the dimension arrows about the right size my cylinder is a dot.
I think somewhere along the line I've got my scale wrong, perhaps I selected angstroms...
kwackers:
Does anyone know how to enter fractional values? i.e. 1 9/16 into these cad packages?
Seems to be a pita to have to manually convert stuff like that before typing it in. I tried changing the units to fractional but nothing I typed in seemed to make it happy. (This is for draftsight, but I guess the procedure is common amongst most).
Country Bubba:
in your example, in the command bar type 1-9/16 and it should work.
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