Hello, Art, On Autocad and Intellicad ou can perform the action both ways: either first chosing an action (ex. move) and then the program asks to select objects, then select vector or 2 points; or first selecting objects and then chosing the action (keyboard or menu), then the program asks to select the vector.
Stretching/moving is quite easy as an object can be selected and a "grip" on a corner (for stretching) or in the middle (for moving) can be dragged with the mouse. When the drag operation starts, you can chose 2 points or a vector just like the "select-action" mode. There is an alpha IntelliCAD edition for Linux/Wine that you may test. IntelliCAD is almost an AutoCAD clone and behaves similarly. Two editors currently, I tested the first one. http://www.progesoft.com/ http://www.bricscad.com/ Greetings, Petko On Tuesday 13 December 2005 17:59, Art Haas wrote: > Hi. > > The recent discussion and patches regarding changing move operations to > require first selecting the entities and then specifying the > displacement(s) warrants more discussion. For move operations, I think > that the proposed changes are worthwhile, but I'd like to hear from > people familiar with other CAD packages, particularly AutoCAD, how > similar operations are performed. Does the program require you to select > entities first, or do you start some move command mode and then specify > which entities will be moved? How about other operations like entity > stretching or splitting? _______________________________________________ PythonCAD mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pythoncad
