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DRAFT CHOICE v1.4 TRIUS REGISTRATION $ 40.00
GRAP MAY90 DRAFT CHOICE TRIUS CAD DRAW
FILES: drftch14.sdn
Update
Draft Choice is a versitile drawing, drafting and CAD program
from the same people who make the AS-EASY-AS spreadsheet.
NOTE FROM THE AUTHOR:
The Ver 1.3, manual just returned from the printer and its
already out of date. Sorry but we got a little carried away
adding improvements and new features.
The following Commands are new or enhanced from those found
in version 1.3 and are based largely on the feedback from our
registered users.
o IMPORTANT NOTE: To select any menu command you can type
just the first letter of the command. For example to draw
a line just type the letters DL which stands for Draw
Line.
o F3-KEY. A built in formula calculator can be accessed by
pressing the F3 function key. A dialog window will appear
which requests a formula. Simply type the formula and
then press the enter key. The result will replace the
formula in the dialog window. To exit from this mode
press the ESCAPE key twice. Note that a complete set of
math functions is supported and includes the following
(plus all the standard math operators ):
SIN, COS, TAN , ASIN, ACOS, SQRT, IF, EXP, LN, LOG
Example: Press F3, Type: SIN(45)*2 [enter]
The displayed result will be 1.414....
Press ESC twice to exit from the CALC mode.
o F4-KEY. This function key is used to toggle between two
modes of object selection (used for the EDITING
commands). The two modes are WINDOW and PICK. The window
mode requires that a window be placed around the group of
objects. Multiple objects may be selected using the
WINDOW mode. The PICK mode uses a small (8 x 8 pixel) box
which must be placed directly on top of the object and
then the enter key is pressed. Only a single object at a
time may be selected using this mode.
NOTE: To exit from the selection mode you MUST PRESS
ESCAPE (or the RT button on the mouse). You can toggle
between either the WINDOW or PICK modes at any time by
pressing the F4-Key.
The cursor has four separate forms to distinguish between
selection modes. It can be either a full screen
cross-hair (used for drawing), a small cross hair (used
for window selection), a pick box (used to select a single
object) and a mouse pointer used to select dialog window
choices (only with mouse driver).
o F10-KEY. The ability to attach to existing objects is
activated by pressing the F10 function key which presents
a dialog window. You have a choice of attaching to the
start, end or midpoint to the object.
o The number of displayed files has been increased to 9 per
window. Files are sorted with subdirectory names
appearing on the bottom of the list.
o You can turn off the Confirmation Verify Dialog box when
erasing objects. (An erased object may be restored by
selecting the EDIT UNDO command).
o The EDIT UNDO command will now allow up to 200 objects to
be restored to their original condition.
o Printer Support has been expanded to include the EPSON
LQ2500 or compatible 24 pin printers and the high
resolution printing mode of the regular EPSON printers has
been enhanced with a multiple pass method.
o A new PLOT BAUD command allows you to modify the baud
rate,stop bits,data bits of the com port.
o In the OPTION DEFAULT menu three new choices have been
added.
- PICK allows you to set the size of the pick window
displayed during editing/selection modes.
- BASESCALE allows you to adjust the internal scale factor
so that it is displayed as 1.0 .
- DOTSPACE allows you to globally change the spacing
factor used for line styles (dotted,dashed etc).
o The command OSHELL allows you to exit temporarily from
draft choice to the operating system. To return to DRAFT
CHOICE type EXIT and return.
(SDA format (c)Copyright 1990 The SDN Project & SDNet/Works!)