Beiträge von Thorvald

I remember when I had AutoCad, I could import a picture file, and it is possible to draw on top of it. A nice thing in Autocad was that this imported object was scaleable as all other objects, so it was easy to scale to correct scale. In D-Cad imported pictures cannot be scaled.

I wonder what will happen, if you have an AutoCad drawing, with a scanned picture/drawing of t.ex. other buildings, roads etc. and you save this AutoCad as DXF. Insert this in D-Cad - what will happen to the scanned image - will it become editable lines as other lines you draw??

Aah ok, I was thinking about that maybe it was that explode thing that I was missing. But I don't have AutoCad so I could not explode it, and I didn't have time to get it done otherwise.

So I made a screen picture of the PDF, imported it into D-Cad, and by drawing on top of the picture with lines and splines, I had a fairly good success to make the drawing by "copying" the picture. I knew the width of one of the buildings on the "picture", so it was just to insert the picture with the correct size. And then I also knew the size of the new buildings so I could draw them in correct size. And after finishing the drawing, I could delete the picture and voila, I had a fairly ok situationplan. But it was here, that the freehand drawing tool would have been useful.

The feature "freehand lines", could perhaps sometimes be usefull to have in D-Cad - for making sketch drawings...

Ok - I have a situationmap, where some buildings are sketched. This I have in PDF. I would like to use these drawings as underlay for work in Dietrichs. It is possible to convert the PDF into DXF - I tried AideCad, and when I open it in DWG viewer it looks ok, but importing it into Dietrichs it is empty. What could that be?

Another possibility is to make a screenshot of the PDF, and import it as a picture in D-Cad. But how well will that work? Can I draw on top of the picture? Maybe because the background is white.

Ok - it worked fine! Thank's for the tip. The roof beams are not perfect - i.e. meeting each other perfectly symmetric, but there is a reason for that: The groundplan is square, but the two pairs of roof sides have slightly different angles to make this straight line in the top. But since the rafters are not going to be visible anywhere, these small differences will be covered.

I was thinking about slanting rafters - but then I thought "no", they would not do it. But ok - I have to give it a try.

Hi. I have this roof - almost pyramid roof. In my world this roof is made of 4 roof elements. When making the one element, I need a hip rafter (as far as I can see). But when I insert it, it always is inserted so the one hip rafter is shared by two roof surfaces. This I don't want. In each of the 4 hip lines, there should be two hip rafters - one at each side of the hip line.

How to do that?

Ah I understand this. This is not in PlanCad, but something like this could be nice.

Mybe this will make more icons, but I have an idea and a point for wishlist, that will save some icons. So for version 8: Today when you want to dimension vertical you have to choose vertical dimension, etc... It would be nice if you just choose distance- or baseline dimension and then the program itself finds out if you want to measure horizontal, vertical or angled. Maybe to choose vertical or horizontal with arrows on the keyboard - because sometimes you want to measure horizontal, but the points you choose are not in a horizontal line.

Yes I know - but probably not with "save as" option. With this I mean to save the picture in whatever location you want and with whatever meaningfull filename you want??

Jason's tip is in fact quite interesting - to select what elements to be solid and what to be tranclucent.

When I "take pictures" I normally take a screen shot from OpenGl, where I can choose tranclucent or solid view, and paste it into Photoshop, where I can save it with whatever filename, filetype, and location I want.

The option to make such a "save as" operation directly from OpenGL is still not possible?? Or will it be in version 8?

OK - I found it under "download".

No one can answer this? Is it on the Dietrichs webpage I find the different available tutorials??

Thank's for the tip...

Now it is working. But not exactly as you said - I had to delete the two circles and whatever was inside. I have no idea, what it could be. :roll:

How to create my own photo galery / album or whatever???

For some strange reason one of my drawers have this one drawing, that always comes out in black print, even if converted to PDF and then printed. And the PDF-print is OK!! :roll: :? :-k

I don't understand anything. And it doesn't matter if we print from her computer, or from my computer or on any printer.

Is it possible to find Dietrichs tutorials / manuals in lithuanian or russian??

The activation filter in D-cam is a nice thing - but a little bit irritating if you have to select a number of items. It would be nice if the filter function worked in a way like display style, where you can put marks for things you want to see.

Another thing is in Ground Plan, that it would be nice to be able to turn on and of walls you want to see or not see. Both in the display and when making drawings. Because some times one makes walls, just to be able to make some items on the building.

Aha, I couldn't find it in the menus - then I was reading "Umschalt+U" and then my best guess was that this would be "Shift+U" - and yes it was!!

And now I see, that it is already black, because the values are 0,0,0. It just doesn't look like a black steel plate, because there some light on it.

Yeaah but how to change the color?