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Re: Part search
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Fri, 29 Oct 2004 07:43:39 GMT
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Hello Purple Dave,

"Purple Dave" <purpledave@maskofdestiny.com> schreef in bericht
news:I5yux2.14JC@lugnet.com...
In lugnet.cad.mlcad, David Laswell wrote:
If you drag any random part into the display panes, you can right-click • on
it and select Modify.  This will bring up a list of parts in • alphabetical
order...

Whoops, the same feature is available for adding new parts by clicking
Edit/Add/Part.  I often have the Mode set to Pan instead of Edit (which • disables
the Add Part function, but not the Modify Part function), since you can • still
click/drag new parts into the display (but you can't accidentally drag a
previously placed part out of allignment), and I usually have the zoom • cranked
in at 100-300 for precision placement and need to be able to scoot around • in the
viewpanes quite a bit (and I hate losing so much viewspace to scrollbars).

I don't know if you already knew, but it is quite easy to change the zoom or
the place of a moedel inside one of the four windows: keep <SHIFT> pressed
down to move the model or keep the <CTRL>+<SHIFT> pressed down while
dragging the mouse cursor in the desired window. In this way you also do not
need the scroll bars.

Greetings
    Maico Arts



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  Re: Part search
 
(...) No, I didn't know that. It didn't sound like something that I'd really find useful, but I've been trying it, and it does make it a lot more convenient to select pieces on-screen instead of either having to hunt them down in the part list or (...) (20 years ago, 30-Oct-04, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)

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  Re: Part search
 
(...) Whoops, the same feature is available for adding new parts by clicking Edit/Add/Part. I often have the Mode set to Pan instead of Edit (which disables the Add Part function, but not the Modify Part function), since you can still click/drag new (...) (20 years ago, 22-Oct-04, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)

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