What features would you like to see added to a future version of DataCAD?
#79687 by Neil Blanchard
Thu Apr 29, 2021 3:22 pm
This is not a big wish - when doing as built drawings, we sometimes write dims in feet and inches, and other times in inches. So, when we dimension the drawing to check things, and to look for how to resolve an issue, it is easiest to have the dims in the units that we measured them. Can we have a quicker way to change a number / group of dims from the drawing default feet and inches to inches? Right clicking and selecting Properties, then the pulldown menu to select Inch/Frac and then click Apply to every dim takes more time that I'd like.
#79688 by Roger D
Thu Apr 29, 2021 3:37 pm
What about
Change/Dimensions/Lock Scale and then select by area/group
#79694 by Neil Blanchard
Mon May 03, 2021 8:29 am
Okay, I should have posted this to the "How Do I ..." section. I didn't realize the Lock Scale option lets you choose the new scale type.

Here's a Wish List item - to make the T Intersection cleanup simpler and faster. The "select line to trim to" should not be required. Here's an illustration:

T Intersection Cleanup.png


In any of these situations, the intended trim line is ALWAYS going to be the line near the cursor. I have drawn the selection areas, and there is no reason to have to select the line to trim to. If you ever trimmed to the other line of the vertical wall in this illustration, it would result in an "Escher" wall that folds space in a way that would never exist.

T Intersection Cleanup-02.png
Last edited by Neil Blanchard on Mon May 03, 2021 12:39 pm, edited 1 time in total.
#79695 by David Porter
Mon May 03, 2021 11:58 am
For quick changing the dimensions to lock them in at another scale type, I created alias' so that pressing the CRTL, space bar, and a couple of letters, gets me right to picking the dimension to change or to encircle all dimensions using the Window menu choice. Below are my aliases

Change dimen to inches:
[CHIN]
comment=Change dimen to locked inches
alias=^:^F8^F1^S8^S1^F5^S0^F1^

Change dimen to decimal (I use this a lot with site plans to match up to the decimal dims used by surveyors):
[CHDEC]
comment=Change dimen to locked decimel 2 places
alias=^:^F8^F1^S8^S1^F4^S5^S4^S5^F2^S0^S0^F1^
#79696 by joshhuggins
Mon May 03, 2021 1:39 pm
#81060 by Neil Blanchard
Mon Jun 27, 2022 10:26 am
We could use a GTV Manager - just like we use the Layer Manager. On projects with as many as 11 or 12 menu pages of GTVs - they need to be reordered and/or renamed, and paging between all the menus to do this can get tedious.

Maybe - a tab can be added to the LM for a GTVM? We have the GTV Update function on the LM - this could be expanded to function as a GTV Manager?

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