TurboCAD Mac Forum

NickWS,

Re 3, Ok, so does that mean that if you are only drawing in 2d you do not use those tools in the palette starting with Model to Sheet? Instead, you would just create a new layer called, say, 'Sheet 1', activate Show Page Breaks in Drawing Window, move the drawing where you wanted it and then draw/paste title block etc around it? Then, create another layer for Sheet 2, manipulate the drawing position to suit new purpose, etc? You would just turn layers on and off to see what was needed in each sheet before printing individual sheets?

Yes, this is correct this does not work well or really at all with a 2d drawing. The steps in your previous post is one way of creating and using a template for 2d drawings.

~monizuka

Monizuka

thank you very much, hope you have a pleasant day.

Brian

thefro1957,

We are hoping to have a patch by the end of the week.

~monizuka

Hi Monizuka

You Mention a patch for this problem, may i ask what sort of time frame Please?

Regards

Brian

Great! Thanks, mitchb. I hadn't realised the Wall Styles could be opened again from the Data palette.


Any thoughts on the best way to create layout sheets with purely 2d drawings when one wants the fills to show on the printed sheet? or is the way I've suggested above about right?

NickWS,

regarding question 2, wall colors and pattern can be changed by using the "Fill Properties" tool. Select the wall, open the "Fill Properties" tool and select the new color and pattern. As soon as the selection is made the wall will change but the color and pattern in the dialog box does not update. Now go back to the "Object Properties" Data tab and open the Wall Styles and see the change. I don't think this is the intended method for doing this but it will work until a fix is applied.

Shot 1 is the original wall, shot 2 is changing the color and pattern and shot 3 shows completed change.

OK, I'll have to explore that feature. Never used BOM in my old CAD. If I can add arbitrary text columns that don't relate to any quality of drawing objects and can just enter my special comments about how to plant, or what pot size to buy, etc, it'll work for me.

NickWS,

TurboCAD Mac currently has a feature called (BOM) Build of Materials.  This feature will create a table with multiple cells.


~monizuka

NickWS,

1. See the two diagonal magenta lines? In the draw window, I want them to show above the fills where they cross them but all my efforts have failed. You'll find other examples of the same thing if you turn of my Fills layer. Strangely, When printed to PDF some of these lines show above fills, some below. I have them in a higher level than the fills, which would work in other CAD and graphic apps I've used, but perhaps TC doesn't work this way (?).

After reviewing the drawing file I will need to forward this to the development team for further assistance.


2. I set the wall fills to a mid-grey using the 'more' option in fill colours but all I keep getting is black (or any of the other colours in the initial drop-down choice if I choose them, but nothing from the 'more' colour palette).

To change the fill color or pattern of a wall use the options modifier of the wall tool. To access these options select the wall tool, once selected in the Data Entry Field an options selection will appear in the right corner of the Data Entry Field. Please review the attached wall tool image.

3. I clearly don't quite get how the Model to Sheet tool works. I've tried many different settings but my 2d plan in the frame on the sheet continues to have no fills, just wire frame.

Model to sheet is used to create 2d representation of a 3d object and set the new 2d views to a template. In the Model to Sheet attached image there is a 3d blue box using Model to Sheet I was able to created multiple scaled 2d views placed on a template.

~monizuka