Beiträge von Jim Rogers

When I want things to show up, I create them as a block of wood, using 2-1-1 and then just change the texture set of the object, such as grass or road....

I made a copy of your sloping grass and moved yours out. I then created two blocks the size of your building outline and did a hard-soft cutting of the building through the grass. Then I deleted the two blocks, and it worked this way.
If you look at the object texture set in 2-0-8 you'll see I have it set for grass.
I hope this helps you.

Zitat von Jens Krause

Hi Bavariaboy,
-You can use the functions 3-4-1 General Cut or 3-4-8 Cut Perpendicular To View
-In the single beam info (middle mouse button), you can click "New", select "Cut off" and enter the parameters for the cut manually.
-You can also use the Smart Tags (3-2-2) to enter a cut off.

Jens

Don't you mean 3-5-1 and 3-5-8?

Here it is in English

You can make the entire grass area and then do a hard soft cutting to remove the house footprint from the grass areas....

I usually make my templates with the title box in another view port so that it doesn't rescale when you change your main drawing scale.
Hopefully you've done that.
As for auto insertion, there is quite a list of things that the program can insert into your title box for you so you don't have to add them each time.
I have typed them into a word doc for easy reading, and understanding.
If this is something you'd like to do (auto insert into title box) I can post the list and give you some suggestions of how to make it work.
Just let me know.
Happy Holidays....

I have a document that shows how to add your textures or colors to the program.
I'll try attaching it to this post.
If you have the program known as "MSWord" you can open it and view it.

If it doesn't work for you, let me know and I'll see if I can convert it to pdf for all to see and use.

Can that be done?
I haven't tried it.

There should be some objects in your library already.
Did you look in 1-5-1 and couldn't find any?

Jim Rogers

Markus:
Thanks for the invitation.

I've summited one, so far.

Where can we see the pictures that were picked for the previous calenders?

I see them in the gallery, but which ones made it?

Also, where can we get the new calender? for 2007? when it's done.

User defined date format in D-CAM, for us who don't use 9-10-2006 but use 10-9-2006.

I thought I had requested this some years ago.....but I can't see to find the email where Wil Dancy of Dietrich's NA asked for my date format input.

It would seem that if we can open a file to change the name of a timber being shown in 2-1-1 inside STABART.frg that it should be easy enough to open a file where "#makedate# is defined and move "display day" and " display month" from one position to another.

It doesn't seem like it's rocket science to move the display label from one spot to another......

I hope I won't have to wait another two years for this, simple change......

Is there a way for us in the USA to edit our programs so that the date creation automatic function will display the date the way we use it here?

This would be very helpful if they could do this.
One way I work around this is to open the processes box on the post and modify the housing and the mortise to the shorter sizes and then it will look right......

We call these timbers "purlins"....... or purlin for one......

Purlins can go above the rafter plane or within the rafter plane when drawn in D-CAM using 211 commands.
Section 320 has some purlin names, also 330 (in the English version).
Over here most timber names are based on the location in the frame.

Hope this helps.

Der_planer:
The kaapstander is, I believe, Dutch for capstan. That is another name used for this wooden tool. One encyclopedia said when the drum/axle is vertical it is a capstan, when the drum/axle is horizontal it is a windlass.....
Same machine, same process to winch in line/rope/wire but two different names.
The text I entered is a exact copy of the picture which is now available in the gallery under "free-construction"......

Thanks for your help.....

Some time ago, I was inspired to create a windlass and gin pole to use in timber framing.
I have done so recently.
There are some photos of the research and the completed project in the gallery, and should be approved by the moderator shortly.

The windlass will need some minor improvement to make it function properly. We hope to complete these improvements this weekend.

It was fun to create this and using D-CAM made it much easier to do.

One of the photos has a caption and I was wondering of the Dietrich's community could help me translate it in English?

Here is the text from the photo:

Tekening 94:

De kaapstander:

Nasst het lastige, per omgang tweemaal, overstappen had de kaapstander nog het nadeel van het zich om de spil verplaatsen van het daarom geslagen part van de loper. Om de loper naar zijn beginstand te kunnen terugschuiven moest de trek op de loper, als deze zijn uiterste stand had bereikt, worden overgenomen door het aan de kaapstander bevestigde seistouw dat dan met een stoppersteek aan de loper weerd geboden (seizen = binden, het seizen bij de kaapstander werd ook verschieten of vervaren genoemd. Het seistouw moest dunner zijn dan de loper). Bij rondloping met zon en rechtsgangige winding om de spil zal de loper omhoogklimmen. Bij het seizen zal hij gemakkelijk naar de beginstand kunnen vallen.
Zou men linksgangig windern dan zal hij naar beneden bewegen. Daarna zou het meer moeite kosten hem naar de hoge beginstand te brenge.

Could you let me know what language this is also?

Thanks in advance....

Thanks for the info.....

What is the standard normal size of a jpeg attactment for having pictures viewable within a post on this forum?
Pixel size?
File size?
What are the limits?
Thank you.

About the time tracker idea, again, my other program has an "idle" button that can be set to a specific time. That is if the program is idle for 5 minutes the clock stops automatically, and starts again automatically once the program is used again. And you can adjust this "idle" time to whatever value you want.

Jim Rogers

A new and helpful item would be to have a time tracker attached to the program.
What it would do is start keeping track of time when you open a project and keep track of the time spent working on it.
They have these in other CAD progams and are great.