“Paste Special” is an underappreciated feature in many programs. It is quite useful in Excel for pasting the values as opposed to the formulae in cells. I recently found “paste special” to be just the tool in needed to complete the design of a very complex sundial, a combination of three sundials with different gnomons showing five different time systems. The dial has hundreds of lines and thousands of points. Fer de Vries Z 2000 program could generate most of the lines for each of the designs that were trimmed and completed in DeltaCAD. But how do I put them all together as the origin point, the base of the vertical gnomon, was different for each of the designs. In the past, I had merged dxf files but that didn’t work this time. Then I found that “paste special” under the edit tab was just the tool to use as it offered pasting the actual DeltaCAD file information in a new position on the master diagram. It allows you to specify the coordinates of the center of the pasted information exactly where you want it. I found drawing a box through the extreme points of the selected information and location the center from the intersecting diagonals gave me the center that I needed to use. I can see many uses for this “paste special” tool. For example, adding an EQT graph would be easy with this tool. The design remains a work in progress and the file is too big to attach here but if anyone would really like to look over my shoulder, I can sent the DeltaCAD file, the dxf or the pdf versions. Again this confirms that DeltaCAD is a great program for sundial designers. Regards, Roger Bailey Walking Shadow Designs Note: [email protected] is my alternate email for the sundial mailing list as I cannot send messages through my normal [email protected] account while traveling. We are en route to Madeira.
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