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Hello Bob, I can tell you that I felt a lot of the same things the first few hours on HighDesign. The tutorials go great then you jump into your own project and it's a whole new ball game... For me it was because I just automatically converted back to the way I would do things in other programs (eit...

OK thanks! I had cleaned out all my app support files a few weeks ago to try and trace down a problem with another program and never moved them back into place. Now I have put them back and I have all the theme options. Do you have many line type options? That is still difficult to control... only o...

Hi Trevor, thanks for your reply. However, I cannot find it in the create image tool. I have tried clicking on the line style drop down menu, but nothing drops down, and there are no presets in my theme menu either. Is that where you have been able to find this? If so can you tell me in what file on...

In the HighDesign gallery there is an image whose caption is 'sketch effect'. Does this in fact exist within HD? If so can anybody tell me where to find/how to use it?

cheers,

macitect

Hi Bob and welcome. I had never even heard of GCADD so I just checked out their website. It looks an awful lot like autocad to me - just with an anorexic interface... I am fresh out of a master's program in architecture and working for a very large firm. We use autocad at work (we have an incredibly...

Ciao Andrea, Here is a wish of mine that I don't think would be too difficult... After the thread we had going about the printing I took a better look at your reusable title block tip. It is finally not exactly how I chose to do mine, but had I looked earlier your advice would have been REALLY helpf...

thanks for the tip Trevor. Does this mean though that I would stack all my sheets one on top of the other?

I am glad that my question started this discussion because there are a lot of things that I didn't realize and this has been really helpful. Thank you both for the prompt and detailed replies. Andrew, I think that the printing is one area that could use a fair amount of simplification and streamlini...

Thanks ybalx,

I agree the whole printing process needs to be revisited. I will submit the contents of this thread as an improvement request.

cheers,
macitect

ps when I am finished this one I will send you a copy of the file to show you how I've been working with HighDesign...

Well 1.6.2 is great, but one thing is still frustrating me. On a particular drawing I have a plan and several elevations set up. Each different element has a seperate sheet and each sheet is ASME B (11x17). I have set the print areas as ASME B using the snaps to set them exactly over the sheets. How...

Anything in the public domain (like music compositions after 50 or 75 years or something like that) can be used without paying any royalties.

Basically, Tekton is copyrighted... so not a freebie.

But honestly I don't have any idea what the copyright laws are concerning fonts...

cheers,
macitect

I also have one called Tekton. FOund it a long time ago and I think it too is in the public domain. It is styled on Francis Ching's printing. Anyone interested let me know. Will be happy to share. macitect EDIT : As it has been brought to my attention that this is not a public domain font, I guess I...

I'll just add my 2 cents... The fact that you haven't had much experience with CAD yet will work to your advantage as you won't already have long established habits. HighDesign is super easy to learn so you'll have no problem there. I also find that it has the NICEST interface of any 2D CAD program ...

Following a discussion in the general forum here is an official wish: that the fillet/join/trim tools will be modified to erase the portion of line opposite of the intersection to the portion that is clicked. Perhaps it is worded better by ybalx: "Back to point on the command, and perhaps this ...

Back to point on the command, and perhaps this belongs in the wish list forum, but a solution to this problem that would speed up the routine would be to force the break/trim/join routine to cleave off the section opposite the intersection of your selection as a default. Therefore, if you select tw...