Dear Sirs: I use Draw fairly extensively, and often like a mechanical CAD system, notwithstanding the decimal accuracy of about 3 digits instead of about 12 for a real CAD. I am also aware that there is/was an American University using this as a CAD tool with their students.
In doing so, there are many extra tricks that can be helpful, such as creating a *_library of "components"_* or pre-drawn items that one re-uses frequently. When I was using Generic CADD, back in the DOS days, one user had made and shared an extensive library of Mechanical piece parts, largely U.S. machine screw sizes and threads. what he did with a series of macros could as easily be done by repeated copy, paste and assemble of the threads, heads, etc. Added to that, I always have at least one "scrap page" at the end of each file to save items or groups for reuse as I create. Since I use LibreOffice in both Windows XP and Linux (Fedora 17 x_86-64), I have an extra hard drive on that machine to handle data storage and sharing, and 2 NAS boxes on the network for my other machines. >From this I build electronic and electrical hardware and other mechanical conveniences, largely for my own use in retirement. _*The "zoom rectangle":*_ One such item is a "zoom rectangle". It is simply a rectangle, named something like "zoom rectangle" with no fill and the border of a colour that I am not likely to use as part of the actual drawing (by habit, I usually use Light Blue). I then copy, paste and size on the active slide around the area I am working on at the time. Then I use object zoom to get in there quickly, especially if I have to go in and out of that area many times in rapid repetition. On 09/27/2012 04:46 AM, PeeWee wrote: > Hello > > I have updated Chapter 3 Working with Objects and Object Points to include > zooming, snap functions and guide lines from Chapter 8 Tips & Tricks. The > zooming, snap functions and guide lines have been updated before being > placed into Chapter 3. > > Chapter 3 is a more suitable chapter for these topics as they are an > integral part of working with objects. > > This new version is now in the Draw LO3.5 drafts folder for review and > comment. > > Please let me know if you agree with this move. > > Regards > > PeterS > > > > -- > View this message in context: > http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/Draw-Guide-Chapter-3-New-Version-tp4009537.html > Sent from the Documentation mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to documentation+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/documentation/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
