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| 841166 | 2009-12-19 08:42:00 | I know there are a few out there. Users of Turbocad. I have a simple problem - how do you draw a straight horizontal line in TC In DCWIN I just simply pressed F8 to keep the line either horizontal or vertical. There seems no equivalent in TC and in fact my instructional manual doesn't have a horizontal line in it. So far I have just been manually controlling any line I draw - not good. I also wonder if others have found the help and forums for TC pretty poor. I spent some time tonight chasing a link to "FREE" help and advice only to be told I had to pay $12 for my question!!! |
Thomas01 (317) | ||
| 841167 | 2009-12-19 11:19:00 | Second picture (www.cadblog.net) + various others. | wainuitech (129) | ||
| 841168 | 2009-12-19 21:57:00 | Second picture (www.cadblog.net) + various others. The link led me to Autocad info. Autocad uses the F10 key to keep the line horizontal. DCWIN uses F8 to do the same. Both straightforward and easy to do. But Turbocad doesn't seem to have the equivalent and so far it looks to me as though I have to provide a construction line first then copy over that. A very clumsy method. I've tried googling and looking at all the pages in the instruction manual. The online help is anything but help. Straightforward lines seem an unknown device to Turbocad but I am sure I have done some in the past. Just cannot remember how. Tom |
Thomas01 (317) | ||
| 841169 | 2009-12-19 22:20:00 | Looks like you need snaps in turbocad. I don't have the software so can't check. Tutorial here:- downloads.imsidesign.com uide.pdf Which version of turbocad are you using? Maybe I can download a trial from here www.imsidesign.com and check it out? |
Sweep (90) | ||
| 841170 | 2009-12-19 22:24:00 | I found a South African site that gives Turbocad instruction and I got into the Line Tools section www.internettraining.co.za The shift key is used to produce horizontal and vertical lines. For some reason I closed the page and I cant get back to the original where the lessons could be chosen, it appears that registration is required. Somehow I got in the back door :) The page above takes a while to load. Edit: I re-found the source page: www.turbocad-africa.co.za |
Terry Porritt (14) | ||
| 841171 | 2009-12-19 22:48:00 | Hey Terry thanks for the info. Perfectly correct of course - in fact I had just found it and was about to mention this feature when you beat me to it. Its not in the manual - I have completely failed to find any mention of the shift key to do what I wanted in my manual. I have some others I will check. Turbocad do seem to have a good but extremely complex program on their hands - unfortunately their sales technique and help situation needs somebody like me to take it over and redo the lot. But at 77 I've been retired from that sort of job for a very long time. I am in fact looking into TurboCad again - not to use or because its easy but just the opposite. I need something to really exercise the old grey matter and I wouldn't enjoy learning Arabic although its probably easier than learning Turbocad. Tom |
Thomas01 (317) | ||
| 841172 | 2009-12-19 23:03:00 | Glad to hear you found it, things like that can drive one insane. For a time at DSIR I used AutoCad 9 on NEC 386 PCs for producing engineering drawings. |
Terry Porritt (14) | ||
| 841173 | 2009-12-20 00:18:00 | Glad to hear you found it, things like that can drive one insane. I think it did. |
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