Is there a way to set-up Datacad for multiple configurations or multiple users?
- Maybe a recorded Macro?
- Keep Dcad-18 as dark-background, and install Dcad-20 as a separate installation with the light background?
It would be better to be able to just "toggle" back-n-forth as-needed.
I'd like to change-over my program preferences and pen-tables from a dark-background to a white background for greater flexibility between Datacad and Sketchup-Pro in 2019. But I have several decades of drawings that use a dark background and light-lines. I can change the preferences manually from the toolbar, but them I have to manually change-back to access older legacy drawings.
I"m finding that working simultaneously on the dark Prussian Blue background in Datacad and the white background in Sketch-up and Layout to be an strain on my aging eyes, ...especially late at night. Twenty years ago I worked in an office that used Datacad on a light-gray background as the office standard, so I have done it before. We used line-weights and black and gray lines rather than the panoply of colors for printed pen-table line-weights. I'm not-yet decided on using "White", or a very-pale Canary like sketch-paper as the background color. The only nuisance of using a non-white for the background is the default pen-color doesn't flip Color-"White" to Color-"Black". I have to use one of the custom-colors for "BlacK" instead on the color menus.
I necessarily don't want to change the older legacy drawings files. Just to use the light-background on any new drawings files or significant projects. Some of the symbol files will either need re-editing, or just duplicate them configured for the light background. In the early months there will be a lot of going back-n-forth, so it would be convenient to not have to manually reset every time, ...very time consuming.
Thoughts? Suggestions?
- Maybe a recorded Macro?
- Keep Dcad-18 as dark-background, and install Dcad-20 as a separate installation with the light background?
It would be better to be able to just "toggle" back-n-forth as-needed.
I'd like to change-over my program preferences and pen-tables from a dark-background to a white background for greater flexibility between Datacad and Sketchup-Pro in 2019. But I have several decades of drawings that use a dark background and light-lines. I can change the preferences manually from the toolbar, but them I have to manually change-back to access older legacy drawings.
I"m finding that working simultaneously on the dark Prussian Blue background in Datacad and the white background in Sketch-up and Layout to be an strain on my aging eyes, ...especially late at night. Twenty years ago I worked in an office that used Datacad on a light-gray background as the office standard, so I have done it before. We used line-weights and black and gray lines rather than the panoply of colors for printed pen-table line-weights. I'm not-yet decided on using "White", or a very-pale Canary like sketch-paper as the background color. The only nuisance of using a non-white for the background is the default pen-color doesn't flip Color-"White" to Color-"Black". I have to use one of the custom-colors for "BlacK" instead on the color menus.
I necessarily don't want to change the older legacy drawings files. Just to use the light-background on any new drawings files or significant projects. Some of the symbol files will either need re-editing, or just duplicate them configured for the light background. In the early months there will be a lot of going back-n-forth, so it would be convenient to not have to manually reset every time, ...very time consuming.
Thoughts? Suggestions?