Hello Warren,
I believe the feature is termed "rubber-banding" and yes I believe
AutoCAD can rubber-band objects that are "grouped" together. MiniCAD (my
latest CAD venture) also has this feature. I recently downloaded a demo
copy of DeltaCAD per Tom McHugh's suggestion and was very impressed with
the functionality for the price, I'm not sure if it supports
rubber-banding though. Hope this helps, please let me know what you find
out.
Regards,
Luke Coletti
Warren Thom wrote:
>
> Hi, I have a question about Autocad. Is it possible to place a
> "variable" point or points in a drawing that will have other points,
> lines, circles and angles "depend" on the location of the variable
> point? That is, the variable point can be "dragged" to a different
> place and have other parts of the drawing shift accordingly. For
> example, you have a circle with points A,B and C on the radius, with A
> being variable. You print triangle ABC, shift A to different place on
> the circle and print the new triangle ABC. OR you have have a copy of
> triangle ABC called DEF in another part of the drawing . If you change
> angle CAB then the corresponding angle in triangle DEF is moved the
> same amount.
>
> I am not one to spend a lot on software (an agreement with the wife),
> and AutoCAD is expensive. But this could be a very powerful feature in
> a CAD program for dialist. Knowledge on the subject is appreciated.
> BTW-- The graphing program Graphica comes close to having that power,
> but through programming steps. WinGeom does it, but is has limited
> printing and file features.
>
> Thanks --Warren (Lat 41.649 Long 88.096 -- the front yard, Long=
> 88.095 is the back yard)
