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A'way, I didn't get it back.=Well, after reading thru all 126 pages of my printed out manuals - and even remembering a bunch of it - I'm ready to attack using this system. C'tosh has gotta have the same ability!!Thnx for the band width.Tkat'Life's Journey is not to arrive at the grave safely in a well preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, totally worn out, shouting.Holy S**t!! What a Ride!!' Heretofore, I've had bunches in libraries and call them back as reqd. In mechanical drawings some things are high repeaters, C/L's, tapped hole sym, zero corners, &c. For those that do, hope you weren't too bored.Now, my next endeavor will be Chap. For those that didn't know, hope this helps. That means you don't have to be spot on.Aside: F12 refreshes the drawing.OK, enuf. It marks the closest point to the pointer and selects it when clicked. This will select the mid point or end point of a feature, whichever's the closest to the pointer when clicked. Now move another box right in the menu, funny looking 'C' w/ 3 red dots. Hopefully, I'm wrong and will discover the trick later on. See the small blue cross? Ta-DA! Intersection point.Unfortunately, it seems as tho the next action will draw a line to this point so it's only usefull when that's what you want to do. Select the intersect mode, 3rd box from right end, X w/ red dot.5.ğollow the instructions. Select Line->point-to-point3.ğollow the entry instructions and draw a couple of unconnected lines on the screen, make them so that when extended the intersection point will be on the screen.4. Select free-hand mode - finger pointer.2. Not that it's that important, but it means you don't have to keep doing the command-K thing to get the pallet out of the way in a busy drawing.OK, time for some (im)practical examples:1. Then by dropping to the function wanted, a sub menu shows up w/ the rest of the choices. It's fairly clear, particularly after working w/ a few examples.NOTE: With a 2 button mouse the right button brings up the whole toolbox pallet in note form. What's requested is a function of what's being done. Of these 4 start with the left one, free-hand mode.Just above this menu bar is the entry line. NOTE: You can cycle thru them using the 'tab' key. For me, the 4 boxes on the right are the most important. For a more in-depth study go there and follow the examples. It's sort of explained starting on pg 2 of the workshop manual. Viola! In the lower left bottom of the screen is THE most important menu of the system. Next I saved this drawing as 'Basic' so I can just drag it back out for the next part - but remember to rename it IMMEDIATELY! What threw me for some time was what to do next. For now, stick 'em in the lower left corner. I then move the X-hairs to where I want to start my drawing, that's shift-click-drag. I've not a clue what all the other setting control yet. I select paper size as A4 Landscape, inches, and decimal.Next, hit Option->dimension. The way I've found to do this is in the top menu. Therefore I want a new drawing to be scale 1:1, in inches, & 3 decimal accuracy. My dwgs are almost always of small mechanical parts, say no larger than 6'x8' or so. OK, open it up and then command-N to get a new dwg.

This is just a way I found.1st we assume you've got the pgm installed. Not only that, but like w/ most things, 'There's lots of ways to get across country'. BTW, I'm on a G4 running Panther.For those of you familiar w/ CADintosh this chapter can be skipped - as most disclaimers state. I like to have an example on the screen to play w/ as I read the book.

Well, after reading thru all 126 pages of my printed out manuals - and even remembering a bunch of it - I'm ready to attack using this system.

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