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- Cheap Tricks • Duplicating Datacad Installs On Second System July 10, 2020Had a gentleman email me about setting up a second system for travel and keeping the same settings synced so I figured this might be something others are doing a lot more of right now so thought I would reply here on the forum so everyone can see also. This is what I have done […]joshhuggins
- DataCAD 21 • Re: Wall Cleanup July 10, 2020I am unable to clean up wall "T" intersections using the clean up tools. A little history with my present problem may be helpful. When I originally drew the walls they cleaned up just fine. After I inserted windows in the main wall the "T" intersections went away so I deleted the windows and redrew […]tlarso
- DataCAD 21 • Re: people templates July 10, 2020What about getting some stock images of people and creating symbols with the images. You would just have to make sure they are set to print first to avoid any overlap with your linework.Statistics: Posted by joshhuggins — Fri Jul 10, 2020 2:00 pmjoshhuggins
- DataCAD 21 • people templates July 10, 2020does anyone have any updated people templates? Mine are getting to be old hat and too many clients have seen them over and overStatistics: Posted by Skipp — Fri Jul 10, 2020 10:16 amSkipp
- Help Wanted • Re: Sun study July 9, 2020Hi Chris,You should be able to quickly model the spaces and use DataCAD's Sunshader which will show you the sun paths and also allows saved sun-shadow images that can automatically insert under the floor plan. There's also Dave Henderson's Shadow macro which provides vector-based shadows (hatching) - https://www.dhsoftware.com.au/macros.htmStatistics: Posted by Mark Bell — Thu Jul […]Mark Bell
- Help Wanted • Sun study July 8, 2020I am working on an 8,000 SF house with lot of south facing glass. Several consultants in the project want to have a sun study to help understand where daylight will fall into the interior of the building. We started the job in pencil and now DD and CD in DataCAD. We did not model […]cblair
- DataCAD 21 • Bitmaps disappearing July 7, 2020Anyone else having issues with bitmaps disappearing? I have been seeing it on Datacad 21 and a co-worker is seeing it on Datacad 20. We have to close Datacad completely down in order for the bitmaps to return. It's happening with bitmaps we have been using for years with no issues. Closing and reopening the […]joshhuggins
- Wishlist • Re: Alias List - Option to sort by Description July 6, 2020Joseph Baron wrote:Would it be feasible to add on option to sort the alias list by description?Done for the next build (21.03.05). I've added a View pull-down menu with the items 'Sort by Alias' (the default), and 'Sort by Description'. A checkmark will appear next to whichever sort was performed last.Statistics: Posted by Mark F. […]Mark F. Madura
- DataCAD 21 • Re: Hatch pattern crash July 6, 2020In the Pattern select menu, try turning off ScaleToView if it's on and when it locks up try holding the END key to stop the drawing of the patters preview and see if that helps.Statistics: Posted by joshhuggins — Mon Jul 06, 2020 3:56 pmjoshhuggins
- Wishlist • Re: Alias List - Option to sort by Description July 6, 2020I've done that by opening the .dca in word, and after a few search and replace, paste into a table, and sort by 2nd column, can create that list in about 5 minutes or less.Statistics: Posted by Roger D — Mon Jul 06, 2020 3:41 pmRoger D
- Cheap Tricks • Duplicating Datacad Installs On Second System July 10, 2020
