Re: Substitute for DeltaCad?

2023-11-26 Thread Simon WS
Freecad and nanocad work well, power draw also works except when I used it, I had to write my own trig functions. However I never exported the dial plates from them as I can and still do use deltacad. I have also used progecad. My book "Programming Shadows" has sample code for them, as well as othe

Re: DeltaCad has been discontinued

2023-05-07 Thread Simon WS
I would offer for consideration several options that work well and are easy to program and use; some are more functional than others. I have tried and written code for all of them, and I discuss them on my website, as well as having functioning code for various dial types. NanoCAD https://nano

Re: A mis-aligned vertical dial

2021-11-09 Thread Simon WS
Although the original question referred to a vertical dial, for a horizontal dial it works very well 6 months in the year on the pole, fairly well as the latitude moves towards the equator, but does get progressively less and less accurate. Simon On Tue, Nov 9, 2021 at 12:08 PM Dan-George Uza wro