Harold Fuchs wrote:
This does not seem to make any difference. I'm not sure what the purpose is of this feature. I do not seem to be able to "re-scale" objects after drawing them.
It's used to draw and print in different measures. That didn't sound quite clear, so I'll try with an example:
Sometimes our company exhibits in fairs. We need to make a sketch of the stand to send to another company who makes the real project, plans and build the thing. We used to did it in draw using the scale option.
We sketch the stand using real measures. I mean, we made in Draw a 20x20 meters square as the floor or a 2x2 meters circle as a column. We use the scale option to be able to print it in a A4 or in A3, while keeping the real measures in the drawing.
Note that the person that did the sketches was mainly a salesperson, who lacks any training in architecture or computers and is horrified just looking at real programs (i.e.: AutoCad) interfaces. It's quite remarkable how fast and easy she has grasped Draw and how fast she became productive (a matter of minutes to draw the plane, she was using it to study the different furniture placements the next day). Specially as she only uses it a couple of times a year.
Sometime simplicity triumphs features. Anyway, I hope that this explained the use of the scale. Javier. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
