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Many of these are found in SketchUp:

Highlight lines when something you are drawing aligns with another point, end, etc.

Divide tool that works like SU.

Select tool like in SU, where left or right determines if box is inclusive or crossing.

Floating tool bars instead of the archaic, and I do mean archaic, menu bar at the left. Each user has a different waay of doing things. THere are some tools that I use all the time that others don't at all. Tool bars like in PowerCad would be awsome.

Make the mouse wheel like every other program regarding zoom. Datacad is backward.

Some of these things we can do now.

- The highlighting of points and ends is supposed to be a feature of v.12

- Don't know about the divide tool, sorry.

- This has been brough up many times, and was decided for most, it's just as quick to tap F1 for crossing.

- You can undock all of the menus and toolbars. You can customize the toolbars buttons also, but customizing toolbar buttons could be done a lot better by the program. See the View menu for toolbar options.

- Add or revise the line below in the dcadwin.ini file [General] section to read:
Reverse Scroll Wheel Zoom=True

peeps, I agree about the SketchUp system. It seems so much more intelligent, especially the dynamic inferences. However, so much of SketchUp's functionality is tied up in the right-click menu that would not be possible in DataCAD due to it's longstanding use of the right-click as exit.

josh, the ReverseScrollWheelZoom change didn't work on my box. I looked it up in the forum and tried it, no go.

btw, fancy finding you on the TiVo Community forum. I'm there occasionally as Redthumb. Good luck with the TiVo. You'll love it. I do. I hope you can find a true TiVo and not a non-hackable D* DVR.

(Off Topic) Yeah now that I orderd the DVR80 from Valued Electronics, I found the post about Direct TV and Microsoft teaming up, and sounds like the R15 might end up with the HMO I was looking for. Oh well, I'll keep these units untill I can see the R15's in action. I can't wait to bust those boxes all to pieces, and start tweaking them out! I'll keep an eye out for ya there Redthumb. Great name for that forum Small world after all I guess.

As for the reverseing the scroll wheel, did you close Datacad before changing/adding that line, and save it?

Hello Greg,

I happen to disagree with you on this -- having to remember "which way" to draw the box would be a major pain for me.

Two more points: I only use Crossing about 1 out of 5 times that I use Area (or Fence), so I only have to use the F1 key a few times -- if DataCAD used the ACAD method that you are advocating, I would have to remember which way to draw the box every time! Secondly, the F1 crossing also applies to Fence -- how would you handle it with Fence?

I use the F1, F2, F3, F4, F6, F8, and F10 buttons all the time, in addition to using many Alt shortcuts, and I use the number pad all the time,too -- so moving my left hand to various parts of the keyboard is second nature!

So many of the tools in DataCAD depend on the consistency of the function keys, in order to let you mouse -- or use the keyboard and the mouse at the same time. It would be quite "against the grain" of this basic philosophy of DataCAD, and I would be so incredibly surprised, amazed, baffled, shocked, stunned, astonished, dumbfounded, agape, thunderstruck -- if Dave G. ever implimented this change!

Unless, there was a way to do it as an option...

I tried the Reverse_Scroll_Wheel_Zoom=True at least four different ways to no avail. My office uses DataCAD14 - any new advice on the subject of reversing the scroll well zoom?

Pulling my hair out trying to figure out how DataCAD works in general as I am trained in the AutoCAD ways...