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General discussion about BabaCAD / Re: Tape measure

« Last post by babadmin on January 19, 2021, 05:34:55 pm »

BabaCAD has "Properties" palette/window (on the right app's side). When line or polyline object is selected, "Length" attribute in "Properties" shows current length of selected line/polyline. For multiple selected objects, lisp command can be coded. I suppose that lisp already exists on the net, but if not I can write that lisp command and post it here. Then you just copy lisp command code to lineslen.lsp (create a new txt file in notepad) and copy .lsp file to Support/Lisp folder. Run command APPLOAD and choose that .lsp before command LINESLEN to execute. Also you can add lineslen.lsp to bcad.mnu (located in Support folder of BabaCAD installation; Program Files/BabaCAD/BabaCAD 2020...).to be loaded on BabaCAD startup.

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General discussion about BabaCAD / Re: Mid point on osnap

« Last post by babadmin on January 19, 2021, 05:15:33 pm »

Mid-point OSnap already exists. It works on LINE objects. Draw line object. Start another drawing command (another LINE or ARC/CIRCLE) and move cursor near the middle of the line object and OSnap will snap to mid-point (orange rectangle marker shows on), same like it activates on end-points.

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General discussion about BabaCAD / Mid point on osnap

« Last post by PerryBond on January 19, 2021, 02:21:11 pm »

Can you add mid-point onto OSAP?

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General discussion about BabaCAD / Tape measure

« Last post by PerryBond on January 19, 2021, 01:53:34 pm »

Is there a measure command or tape measure?
I realise you can always put a dimension on something then delete it, but I was looking for a quicker way to check the length of something?

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General discussion about BabaCAD / Re: Can't see main menu

« Last post by babadmin on January 07, 2021, 12:25:59 am »

You're welcome. Thank you for using BabaCAD. I don't have wine here, but I have some pepsi in the fridge. It's raining here in Sarajevo, but ideal evening for watching movies and #stayathome

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General discussion about BabaCAD / Re: Can't see main menu

« Last post by PerryBond on January 06, 2021, 08:51:41 pm »

Thank you. I am impressed with your quick and detailed reply. It is late here in the UK and I've had some wine, so will watch the video and follow your comments tomorrow.
Thanks again, I am honestly impressed.

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General discussion about BabaCAD / Re: Can't see main menu

« Last post by babadmin on January 06, 2021, 07:44:03 pm »

Plot in BabaCAD is explained with all details in video tutorial ('How To Plot Your Drawing in BabaCAD') which can be found on Tutorials link on website main page: https://www.babacad.com/tutorials.html

To specify your rectangle as a layout for printing, first must go to Layout view (click on Layout tab at the bottom or click MODEL/PAPER switch toggle button on the bottom of app window). Also, be sure that your Model is active (double click inside of viewport rectangle or click MODEL/PAPER switch, and your mouse cursor will change to crosshair cursor). You can use mouse scroll (middle) button to zoom in/out to find your rectangle in model or you can use ZOOM command (use Zoom/Window option) to select your rectangle to zoom to it. There are few commands in [View] category to set page layout,plotter settings and to add more viewports to your layout. Multiple viewports can be used in your case, so you can have three viewport rectangles on the same page to plot (you can zoom in/out and pan/move drawing elements inside each of viewports idependently). Also you can use PLOTSCALE (can be found in [View] menu) to print in specific scale (ex. R 1:2, R 1:10..., by just typing scale factor after command PLOTSCALE, explained in detailed in mentioned video tutorial).

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General discussion about BabaCAD / Re: Can't see main menu

« Last post by PerryBond on January 06, 2021, 07:43:20 pm »

I'm now assuming that's out of date.
I have three rectangles, inside each of them I have a drawing, /=I want to print each one; how do I specify the rectangle as a layout?

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General discussion about BabaCAD / Re: Can't see main menu

« Last post by PerryBond on January 06, 2021, 07:41:29 pm »

Plotting / printing

There are three commands for managing plotting / printing:

menu option File -> Plot plots/prints chosen Layout to the ploter/printer

menu option File -> Plot Preview View on output before plotting/printing

menu option File -> Plot Setup Settings of plotting/printing

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General discussion about BabaCAD / Re: Can't see main menu

« Last post by PerryBond on January 06, 2021, 07:35:43 pm »

OK, so I want to print a specific area, not sure how to do this, so I go to help. It states:
Plotting / printing
There are three commands for managing plotting / printing: