Lastly, as far as zooming and shrinking the image, have you used the Scale X and Scale Y picks on the lower left? Greater than 1 enlarges, less than 1 shrinks it. One of the beauties of a CAD program is that the drawing size is infinite. Secondly, are you lofting full size? If not, I recommend it. That's the best way I've found yet keep the lines to the front. When the image covers them up, I zoom out and click outside the image. Also note that my comments apply to TC 17, so YMMV.Īs far as the lines disappearing behind the image, I find it best to make my keel line and perpendiculars much longer than the image. So if he or any other expereinced TurboCad operators say something contrary to what I say, please ignore my comments. I would very much value any ideas or tips from you experienced folks?īefore I say anything else, Wayne Kempson is (in my opinion) the resident expert of lofting and TurboCad.
Is there an easier way? I was hoping to try and draw a line on the imported picture (say between the verticles), lock/merge/group this line with the picture, and then set the line's length via the properties/values for line length hoping this would then scale the grouped photo with it - BUT this does not seem to work (or more likely I am doin git all wrong ).Īlso, is there anyway in TurboCAD to make layers semi-transparent when working with them so I that can see the image/lines under the selected object while manipulating them? A lot to ask but I have been unable to find anything in the set-up or preference3s etc to do this. Sending it to the back is not the same as layer management in say Photoshop, as in this case it is the objects that are sent to the back (which can be on the same layer). This process is difficult as when the object (layer) to be scaled is selected it comes to the fore and hides the underlying dimensions/scale layer. I then import the image, rotate it to get it level and then manually adjust it (takes a lot of fiddly adjustments but eventually I get there) so that the picture fits to the required scale (as drawn on the Dimensions layer - usually the length between verticals with elongated perpendicular ends).
To date my routine has been to create a layer with dimensions (real-world scale) shown. I have already imported the deck plans for two of this class as well as a photo (adjusted) which I use to trace and/or align to draw the deck fittings/arrangements. I am trying to draw the deck arrangements for a ship (one-of -a-kind design) but very similar to the gun despatch vessels of the mid-nineteenth century. Could anyone please advise the best way to scale an imported picture which I intend to use to trace, or take alignment lines from. Hi, I am a relative newbie to CAD (using TurboCAD 20 Deluxe) and believe I am going about the scaling process the wrong way.
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