Hi Steve: Glad you got the package, and thanks for all the compliments. I'm sure you figured out that I'm much more of an artist and craftsman than a mathematician and computer expert!
You ask if I use delta Cad. Steve, if I could be granted one wish pertaining to dialing, it would be to master Delta CAD and/or Turbo CAD. It was a bit frustrating hearing from Sarah Edmonson yesterday how beautiful your Azimithal and Singleton drawings are when processed with Turbo Cad. I, however, use a screen capture and print with an Epson stylus 1200 printer that is able to print large 13" by 19" pages, then I enlarge by Xerox the print to the sundial's final size (diameter: 40"). Needless-to-say, by using the screen capture method, the drawing's final version has very unacceptable stepped lines instead if nice smooth curves. To use this flawed drawing, I will have to trace by hand the entire drawing, using a french curve, to eliminate those annoying jagged little steps. I know many of us dialists, especially the dial makers, do NOT know how to get a good printed hardcopy of the sundials we design using the various sundial generator programs. I'm definitely one of them. Frankly, I don't even know where to begin to teach myself CAD. I suppose I could enrole in some college courses which teach CAD, but I find the prospect of returning to school even worse! Meanwhile, I wish there was a way that I could send my files of a sundial design to someone who does have CAD who could print a hard copies for me and then send them back to me for a fee. Do you know of anybody out there who might offer this CAD printing service? I'm sure there are many of us CAD deprived dialists who would be interested if there were. CAD deprived, John Steve Lelievre wrote: >On another matter, do you use DeltaCAD? If so, does the version support >macros? It's just that I have converted my earlier programs to run as >DeltaCAD macros, and tidied them up for publication. I would like to send >them to you, if you have the capacity to use them. It will be some months >before I will be ready to publish them as free standing programs, as I am >waiting for Microsoft to release their new version of VisualBasic. I need it >for professional reasons but I am sitting tight for now as I don't want to >fork out over $600 US buying a version which is about to be superseded. My >existing YaBasic programs simply aren't fit for publication, due to the >nature of YaBasic itself. > >All the best, > >Steve > >
