RiscCAD
RISCWorld
Introduction
About this manual
We assume you are conversant with using RISC OS and applications such as Draw, Edit and Paint. This manual does not serve as a guide to using your computer, or as a general guide to using windows, menus and dialogue boxes. It is recommended that users familiarise themselves with the Draw application. Many RiscCAD operations are very similar to operations performed by Draw.
Conventions used
Throughout this manual the following conventions are used.
References to menu items, mouse buttons and window buttons are shown in Bold.
Left, centre and right mouse buttons are SELECT, MENU and ADJUST respectively.
Choosing an item means use the mouse SELECT button and click on the icon or menu item referred to.
CTRL-A means hold down the CTRL key and press and release the A key.
SHIFT-F9 means hold down the SHIFT key and press and release the F9 key.
SHIFT-CTRL-G means hold down SHIFT and CTRL and press and release G
SHIFT-Drag means hold down the SHIFT key while dragging an object with the SELECT key of the mouse held down.
The Program Menu is opened by moving the mouse pointer over the RiscCAD icon on the icon bar and clicking MENU.
The Main Menu is opened by clicking MENU anywhere within a drawing window.
Installing RiscCAD
Double-click on the !INSTALL application on the CD and drag the icon in the window which appears to wherever on your hard drive you want RiscCAD to be installed. It is recommended that you first create a suitable directory for this, The !INSTALL program will install the main RiscCAD application and support programs but not the example files or HTML manuals. You can run or load these files directly from the CD or, if you want to have them available from your hard drive, just copy them over by dragging in the usual way.
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