Hello Tom I shall be looking at them when I start upgrading the Draw User Guide to version 4.0.
Regards Peter Schofield [email protected] On 12 Jan 2013, at 17:49, Tom Davies wrote: > Hi :) > Would those tips&tricks be good as an extra chapter or would they be better > as additional tips in different places within existing chapters? Are they > already written-up somewhere or could you write them to fit into the guide? > Regards from > Tom :) > > > > > >> ________________________________ >> From: Bruce Martin <[email protected]> >> To: [email protected] >> Sent: Saturday, 12 January 2013, 6:01 >> Subject: Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Draw Guide - User's idea. >> >> 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 [email protected] >> 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 >> >> >> >> >> > -- > Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to [email protected] > 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 > -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to [email protected] 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
