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Alex

Why not support DWG? I asked this question in version 1.1 and the response was the dwg format is not an open standard and thus HD was unable to work with it at that time... several years ago. It didn't make much sense to me then, but I had a work around to open dwg's in Sketchup and then export to d...

This is in a realm of crossing over platforms between the Mac and Windows OS that will always be troublesome. I would suggest you print as though you had the larger plotter in house through the HD print preview and print routine, and then when the Mac printer dialog box comes up, print to PDF. Use t...

Snapping a print area rectangle to the page margin should print at 100%. The application seems to know about specific margins and how they change depending on printer, paper size and orientation in Page Setup. If Print Area command can not snap this way, then design the Sheet corners to be snap-able...

For multiple scale details I use sheets Start with the original drawing Select the portion you want to detail Copy/duplicate to a new sheet Change the scale You'll have to either readjust dimension and note dialogs to resize text for the new sheet in order to keep it the same size overall (compared ...

This is how I use a titleblock. I created a typical drawing with a sheet. Identified the typical page setup. Made print boundaries visible Draw the titleblock Select the titleblock and print area Make a new symbol For a new drawing or sheet create a layer called Title 1, Title 2, and so on create a ...

For me, the solution is for the Print Area should snap to the Sheet page margin, knowing that changes on printer and orientation, and reflect a 1:1 ratio. The other thing that is nice about the Sheet Page margin is that they seem to be the only snap-able object on the sheet. So when you move a sheet...

Andrew, thanks for your reply... alas here's the rub. Your answer works well if your drawing is not larger than the page margin borders. As soon as your drawing breaks over a page margin border, the Print Preview forces the plot to more than one page. Select "Fit to one page" and the reduc...

Sure, by using the "Point" icon, sorry I don't have HD on this machine so I'm loosley referring to its true commands. In the Point routine, you can manipulate the drawing Origin with a big "O", which will control the grid and elevation dimensions. You can also place as many small...

You're close to solving it. Place your first window/door in the wall. Once you've set the outside with a click to close the command, you should find that arrowing over the wall will bring up the next window. Enter "L" to bring up the length text box, enter "the new distance apart (dep...

I echo your comments. I believe its a code error and its been around for a long time. I usually get a reduction of 98.xxx% so I haven't complained too much. Here's what I believe is happening: Select the page size and orientation in Page Setup. For example you pick 11x17 landscape. Select the page s...

Here's a nice font I found. I bought the Medium font and it prints nice at 6 pixels and above. The kerning is a little tight on the medium.

http://www.paratype.com/astore/fonts/Architect.htm

Alex

And the most obvious way to move around whilst drawing... the Apple Mighty Mouse or a mouse with scroll click wheel...

Yes this is normal. Workarounds: Enable "click-click" drawing method in the Preferences (opposed to "click-drag" and this will let you start a line, then arrow over the scroll bars to move the drawing around mid-stream. I always work with this setting on object creation. It allow...

I'm interested in this one too...