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by debenriver
Sun Aug 03, 2014 8:29 pm
Forum: iPocket Draw
Topic: Dynamic dimensions?
Replies: 4
Views: 15588

Re: Dynamic dimensions?

You are both absolutely right of course – I was only joking – well maybe half joking! I am very conscious however that RealCadd cost me $135 – I didn't have to pay $3000+ – and all updates have been free. And it does pretty much what I need it to, pretty efficiently – and where it doesn't I can usua...
by debenriver
Sun Aug 03, 2014 4:21 pm
Forum: iPocket Draw
Topic: Dynamic dimensions?
Replies: 4
Views: 15588

Re: Dynamic dimensions?

Hi Mike I don't know about iPD, but RC is mildly quirky about stretching more than one object at a time. In ClarisCad, you could grab and object and its associated dimension line and drag the whole lot and the dimensions increased or decreased appropriately. This worked fine for vertical and horizon...
by debenriver
Fri Aug 01, 2014 10:42 pm
Forum: RealCADD
Topic: Suggestion
Replies: 11
Views: 12547

Re: Suggestion

Oh – I'm glad about that. It wasn't logical that it wouldn't work! Boat drawings are nearly always curves and seriously odd shapes. So you need lots of data to define them. And a lot of the parts are big. Even with the boat I am currently working on (20') a lot of the drawings have to drop down to 1...
by debenriver
Fri Aug 01, 2014 11:15 am
Forum: RealCADD
Topic: Suggestion
Replies: 11
Views: 12547

Re: Suggestion

Mike: Can't you ungroup the dimension group so you get a dimension line (with arrows or whatever) and a number which is text. Then give the text a white background. Then, if necessary, move it to the front, so it will sit on top of the dimension line, not under it. Then move it over the dimension li...
by debenriver
Thu Jul 31, 2014 10:36 pm
Forum: RealCADD
Topic: Suggestion
Replies: 11
Views: 12547

Re: Suggestion

Hi Mike: L1 is the distance the witness lines extend beyond the dimension line L2 sets the length of the witness lines from the dimension line towards the object being dimensioned. So if you set L1 to 10 and L2 to 50 the witness lines will extend 50 px from the dimension line towards the object and ...
by debenriver
Thu Jul 31, 2014 1:02 pm
Forum: RealCADD
Topic: Suggestion
Replies: 11
Views: 12547

Re: Suggestion

Hi Eric Ok this worked for me (on the drawing I posted): I drew a line at the start on the right hand side. The used Cmd-M to repeat it at -200 intervals. Then trimmed all the lines top and bottom. That is what I usually do and up until now I have used those as the dimension lines as per original qu...
by debenriver
Tue Jul 29, 2014 12:50 pm
Forum: RealCADD
Topic: Suggestion
Replies: 11
Views: 12547

Suggestion

Hi Eric A couple of things that you might consider in a upgrade sometime: 1. Autosize line. This is any line configuration (typically a plain line with an arrow each end) with the length of the line dimension set in the middle. It make dimensioning drawings, where the standard dimensioning tools are...
by debenriver
Sun Jul 27, 2014 2:45 pm
Forum: iPocket Draw
Topic: Tangent
Replies: 8
Views: 19892

Re: Tangent

The only reason I have for not having all the attractions turned on all the time is that on a complicated drawing, with a lot of intersecting lines and lines close to each other, you get too many attractions and the one you want doesn't happen! For example in RC, P seems to predominate over I, so so...
by debenriver
Sun Jul 27, 2014 11:38 am
Forum: iPocket Draw
Topic: Tangent
Replies: 8
Views: 19892

Re: Tangent

You mean by cutting the circles and retracting the arcs to the end points of the tangents? ClarisCad had that capability too and it was useful... You can achieve the same circle-cutting result in RC by drawing an arc over the circle, using centre attraction as the start and end point as the radius a...
by debenriver
Sun Jul 27, 2014 12:04 am
Forum: iPocket Draw
Topic: Tangent
Replies: 8
Views: 19892

Re: Tangent

It would be nice (but it's not at all essential) to be able to join two circles or arcs with a tangent in RealCADD too! It would also be very nice (more important than tangent to two circles) if the tangent was subject to constraint by the shift key – so one could draw a vertical or horizontal (or 4...