On Wednesday, March 02, 2011 09:42:07 pm Przemek Klosowski did opine: > 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
I wound up doing it more or less by the grid, without adding any dimensions, then ksnapshoted the screen and printed that, which I penciled in some dimensions, enough to mill 8 mortises in 2 legs & get one side frame cut and test assembled. But that taught me 2 things, one, don't believe the chisel width as stated on the package, a 3/8" wide Stanley turned out to be about .435" wide! Where I was raised, 3/8"=.375", when did that change? About 4 hours trying to trim it precisely but no way to grab that tapered shank in my milling vice so I had to grind and hone. PIMA!!!! Two, change the blade on my table saw, its an ATB, and I found an ATBF wearing a CMT label that will go on it before I try to cut another tenon. Next time I'll try Qcad, but I hope its UI has improved since the last time I needed a whole bottle of naproxin sodium by the time I'd restarted it 6 or 7 times & never did get anything worth printing. That was maybe 2 years back up the log, so hopefully its more stable now. I just ran it for about 10 minutes, trying to get the feel and it didn't crash or freeze, so there may be hope. Thank you Przemek. -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) <http://tinyurl.com/ddg5bz> I'm RELIGIOUS!! I love a man with a HAIRPIECE!! Equip me with MISSILES!! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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
