![]() ![]() If you subsequently change the properties in the layer table, all lines previously drawn with that tool will change accordingly. You will need to do this for each drawing tool on first use, but once set they will use the layer properties. Similarly for the line style and thickness drop downs. Press that and your line will automatically pick up the colour of the layer you are drawing in. There is one that looks like a stack of paper. Towards the end of that grid, you will see some hieroglyphs. For example, the default setting is black, using the dropdown opens a menu showing a grid with lots of pretty colours. To enable this once you have set up your layers table, all you have to do is select your drawing tool (line, arc, circle.whatever), then change its properties (colour, line style, thickness etc) using the drop downs in the tool ribbon just above the drawing space. This one puzzled me when I first started exploring TurboCAD. might be spot-on but your drawn details be virtually impossible to make. In a professional setting you'd be regarded sarcastically by the machinists as a "college-boy engineer" - your calculations and specs. However, it struck me that if you don't already have at least some, fairly broad practical workshop experience, you are wasting your time learning CAD because you will never be able to design things, only draw pretty pictures of them. I think it safe to say most model-engineers can skip that section. Incidentally I noticed Neill Hughes devotes a few pages to summarising the basic machining processes. Neither book though, helps me use TurboCAD's Layer feature for either line-setting or separating / repeating areas of drawings.Īnd yes, I have asked on the TC Users' Forum but seemed unable to put over that I want to know how to operate the tools. He also shows a sample of an equivalent layer-properties table, probably that of the particular CAD programme he uses. Neill Hughes' CAD For The Workshop is more forthcoming, and he develops that sub-assembly theme to separating whole fields of a complex drawing, such as a layer each for the engine, electrics, etc. ![]() His example is the axle-boxes on a 6-wheel tender - draw one axle-box on its own layer and copy it. Brown's CAD For Model Engineers barely mentions Layers but hints they are for repeating parts of drawings. I do have two generic CAD primers, but whilst they suggest things that Layers can do, they are obviously not necessarily applicable to every CAD "make".ĭ.A.G. Whilst it's possible to select several drawing objects at once for editing, this is less reliable and certainly very laborious for editing dimensions, and altering a dimension re-sets its appearance to the defaults. I have to draw everything on the default Layer 0, then edit them afterwards. IF it is possible to pre-set the dimension properties (line characteristics, arrow size, label font and size, decimal places, etc.) how? So how do I use the wretched things so they work?ĭimensions - somewhat akin to the Layers problem. ![]() There is though, no or button and even when the tool-bar shows my entries have been saved, they do not work. I fill in the layer-formatting table, typically creating three Layers - outline, centre-lines and dimensions, but the last might not work as a layer anyway. I cannot see how though, and the on-line "Help" manual does not instruct you. Layers - I am not certain of their real purpose, but they seem to allow pre-setting line properties. Having made some progress with TurboCAD Deluxe 19, even to the extent of very tentative 3D drawings (pretty but of no practical value in the workshop) I would like to use some of its main features properly. ![]()
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