RealCADD and iPocket Draw

Mike: I'll be waiting for your manual! You're so much more of a power user than I am, I'm sure to learn a lot. I'm not sure that is true at all – but nice of you to say so! I decided to make it in PHP/HTML, so it could be used in a browser – but of course I have to do all the coding as well, which h...

Eric I think that it is better to : - select the objects - Duplicate ⌘D - Convert to lines ⌥⌘L - Convert to polygon ⌥⌘P - Choose the back color - Send backward ⌥⌘B Yes in a perfect world I guess that would be the way to go! But I'm not fussed if I can't immediately re-create a radius for example – I...

Hi Eric Can you tell us what is new – makes it easier to test :D I can see RGB numbers on the colour palette – which is nice. I don't use colour much (except on proposal drawings), so it has never fussed me overmuch. But I agree, it is really hard to pick out what colour you have made something if y...

Good morning Hubert! That is pretty strange – I've found RealCADD to be 100% good at hatching closed shapes and it makes a pretty good stab at unenclosed shapes, overlapping shapes etc.. In the sketch below the lines are not made into polygons – they are just selected and hatched. Screen Shot 2015-0...

Hi Hubert It looks as if the two rectangles that you are hatching are incomplete areas. Or you have other bits of unjoined lines left from construction. When that happens, just draw a rectangle, using snap, hatch it and then delete the rectangle. The little rectangles can be coloured white and broug...

Hubert Select the objects (lines. polygons, arcs, bezier curves, etc). Click ⌥⌘L. Click ⌥⌘P. And it's done. To turn it all back to individual lines click ⌥⌘L. If necessary use ⌘J to select all the joined lines and then ⌥⌘P to turn it back to a polygon/polycurve again. But you can't turn arcs, curves...

Hi Mike, Hubert The trouble with duplicate and move is that it is OK for vertical or horizontal lines but not for lines at other angles – unless you do a lot of sums with cosines of the angle :( . And no good for polycurves which is what I deal with a lot. Other than that, I use ⌘M a lot. Oddly enou...

Hi Eric

Got it!! Many thanks.

George

Eric, Hubert Theoretically, RealCADD asks to change the scale of objects to be paste (with or without ⌥) when the scale of the objects is different than the scale of the active layer. I use this feature all the time without problems. But I don't check the "Through layers" box – I don't qui...

Hmmm... Yes of course the Option and Shift keys are already in use – I had forgotten that :!: I guess one would quite quickly learn to like the two different selection modes: "left to right" to select objects wholly enclosed by the marquee; and "right to left" to select objects p...