Beiträge von Thorvald

OK - here it is.

One more for the wish list: Better compatibility with other Cad software. T.ex. following possibilty: You have drawings in PlanCad, and you can print them to printer, dxf or to PDF. That's fine. Now it could be nice if there was a built in dwg printer. This printer reads the drawing and reads the properties of the windows in the drawing and reads the scales. Then the program scales the drawing to 1:1 modelspace (if there are more windows with different scales, the program scales the main window to 1:1 and the other windows are scaled accordingly). The output are dwg modelspace drawings - can be one drawing for each one drawing in PlanCad.

Another possibility is that you can choose for the drawings where you want them - t.ex. plandrawings in 1:1 modelspace, and wall drawings in correct layout drawings. So that for several PlanCad drawings you get 1 dwg drawing file.

I have sometimes been asked to give my production drawings as dwg files, but I have said "no", because it doesn't work well. I dont think that production drawings in dwg are so important - but it could be a good thing when we are talking about plandrawings. Because not all are working with Dietrichs (unfortunately... )

Ok - I think I would change it via MOS manually. I might have HRB editor, but I haven't used it before.

A webspace - can it be a ftp-server?? But when I delete the picture from the ftp-server - then it will no longer be available here in the forum?

Hi. How to put a avatar, if I would like to use a picture, that I have on my computer?? I tried to put the URL (the file path, to the picture on my computer), but I am not sure if it worked.

Yes I have XP Pro on my desktop computer, and I have Vista on my laptop. So that could be the reason, as what you say.

Hi - I didn't understand the first thing you said, but it would also be more convenient to have evrything in the same wall.

All insulation is in slice 0, but in layer 15. How do you do that??

Before: 9. I don't like the Di-Cam view, it is (almost) useless, to my opinion. Why not put openGL view and Dicam together, to make it possible to work in the rendered mode.
Now: Now I have OpenGL workspace, but I don't use it - æææh - why not? I just tried on my desktop computer and there I don't have the same problem as on my laptop. Even though my laptop is only ½ year old and my desktop computer is 3 years old my desktop computer is better at this point. When I switch on GL work space on my laptop and move the cursor (the cross), then the cross disturbs the view and makes a lot of lines, so the view is useless. ...

11. As there is a wall macro a "ceiling macro" could also be very useful!!

This could still be very usefull for me - is it comming??

a9tech was a good hint. Another thing could be the possibility to convert dwg to PDF, without the autocad program. Is that possible??

I also want to ask: If I take the drawings from PlanCad and want to convert them to dwg - then the drawings must be saved in dxf and then converted to dwg. But what happens to text, measurements, colors and scale?? From earlier experience I found it difficult to make good dwg drawings of drawings from Dietrichs.

In the house (or 2 houses) that I am working with now I put a independent wall inside the "real", and then I can use this other wall for the steel. To put the two things together on a drawing would just be to insert stored image two times. And then I assume (I hope) that the steel will be in another layer than the "real wall". An option to be sure of that could maybe be to make the "steel wall" with core slice in -5 or any layer I don't use... ?

Ahaaaa aaaaaaahhhaaaaaa ....... You are so clever Der_Planer!! It is a pleasure to know you (even we did not meet). How could I oversee that "profiles"..... #-o

Ok - but it seemed that for now I did not need "list settings". Now I have copied items back and forth, so I now should have the same material database on the 2 computers. Nice!
Thanks for help.

I created some diameters in the database - how did you do that? Can you create any diameter you want - also small diameters??

I don't understand "list settings"? Does it matter?

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Perhaps you should first close your Dicam project?
Or restart the program, and open database only?

I just opened project data on my laptop and there I didn't understand why outlook is coming up, and what dhpstamm.mdb I should choose?? Should it be the one at the other computer??

Continued from what I say about armature. It would be convenient if it was possible to make round items and then the program it self calculates the coordinates. In dicam it is possible to make round bars (rods) at any diameter. But in wall and ceiling design rods have a square section. Is there any way to create round bars in wall and ceiling design. Is it possible to create a rod in Dicam, and somehow transfer it to wall or ceiling design.

How I can solve this? Or maybe Dietrichs developers can create armature items for use in the material database - or maybe somebody have already done that? It would be excellent if the armature then was having the correct surface texture of kamsteel. And also the possibility to put in the walls ore ceilings bended armature - this could maybe also be predefined in the program based on what diameter armature you choose, and then you can choose if you want L-bended U-bended or even bended in 4 corners.

Then I would prefer to have the items in the material database. I would also like to put armature into the material database, and it is possible, but problematic with small diameters because the distance between coordinates are getting too small.

If I use DiCam's library I cannot use the items as beams in wall and ceiling design - is that correct?

Hmm. I don't understand how. When I start 4-0, it looks like it starts up installation of Outlook 2000. And when I choose the database C:\Dhpdba\ on the laptop, it says that I am currently working on that database and I can't do anything. I want to transfer some new items on the laptop to my desktop computer.