On Tue, Mar 1, 2011 at 3:19 PM, gene heskett <[email protected]> wrote:
> Greetings everybody; > > Fooling around (I think thats what some folks would call it :) with > heekscad, I have some solids laid out as if I'm looking down at the top of > a piece of furnitures corner post, depicting how the tenons are going to > meet inside the leg. 3 questions for those more fam with heekscad than I > obviously am. > > 1) How can I switch on a dimension mark that looks like this: > |<---1.45"--->| > > 2) And, force the dimension figure printed to be some arbitrary scale, like > 8 squares of the background grid = 1.00" > > What I want is to mark all the dimensions on the printout so I don't have > to pencil them in, if I can... > 3) print the result, I'm getting instant feeds of blank paper. > Don't know about heekscad, but for 2D drawing that you might use for an assembly, I'd use another free CAD program, Qcad. In Qcad you draw the dimension like any other feature on the drawing, anchoring the first and second point to the part features, and placing the label in freehand mode. I like to put dimensions in their own separate drawing layer. As to the scale, it's a general property of the particular drawing, together with the measurement units, and the output format of the dimension numbers ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Free Software Download: Index, Search & Analyze Logs and other IT data in Real-Time with Splunk. Collect, index and harness all the fast moving IT data generated by your applications, servers and devices whether physical, virtual or in the cloud. Deliver compliance at lower cost and gain new business insights. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
