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| Posted by George59 at Mar 21, 2016, 6:20:04 PM |
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Re: Several problem with using Sweet Home 3D hansmex, thanks for explaining the calculating method and letting me know that I wasn't the first one to notice this discrepancy. So, drawing walls upon a fuzzy scanned image should probably give not so bad results! Puybaret, I forgot to mention that the drawing I was talking about isn't an engineering drawing but some private party in the apartment building we live in and since he used thicker lines to indicate the main supporting walls, this drawing is kind of useless for me. But what I decided to do instead is to draw the floor plan with the right size walls in Sketchup and save that as an image and use that in SH3D as a background image. About the selection color under Windows XP, check the selected Color scheme in Appearance tab of Windows Display properties (see also here). The blue default scheme doesn't give so dark color on my computer. Based on your instructions I did manage to change color in question to light, or sometimes it's called "baby" blue, it fixed my problem. ------------------------ (for those of you, who want to do the same change, here is the exact path if you have Windows XP: right click on desktop then... Properties, Appearance, Advanced, under ITEM pick "Selected Items" there you can change the color "Color1" to your preferred color. ------------------------ I do like the space bar + mouse click&hold way of dragging. Shift+ or Ctrl+ could have also be used since they don't have any function in the same situation, but it is there. Sorry to say that, but you're wrong: Shift is used for multiple selection and Ctrl key is used for duplication. By the way, using the space bar to pan in the plan is found in some other 2D drawing software too.What I meant was, that when I want to move the canvas, I don't click on the object(s) to do that but anywhere on the canvas. Currently if I click on the canvas while holding the Shift or Ctrl key and try to drag the canvas, nothing happens, that's why I said, that those two keys don't have any function in this scenario. So, basically while the tool "Select object in plan" selected, you could also move the canvas or pan in plan with your mouse while holding down any of those two keys. Just an idea. Note that even if I also prefer those shortcuts, they are not so easy to use on some foreign keyboards where the + key requires to press the Shift key. You're right about this, it is the scenario with all laptops, so you can scrap that idea. If you could change the center of zooming to the current position of the mouse, it wouldn't even make sense to deal with the short cuts for zooming IMHO. Basically this is a drawing program where the primary tool supposed to be the mouse and only those functions should need keyboard assistance that a mouse couldn't do by itself. About functions of magnetism and align... both seem to do the same but with different items. Wouldn't it make sense to combine the two into one tool like "Snap To"? This is how it's done in Sketch up and don't recall every causing me any problem. (I know, that you might get sick sooner or later for me bringing up SketchUp so often, I do that not to piss you off but because that's one of the few graphics applications I use and am familiar with.) So if and when the "Snap To" option is ON (with an ON/OFF icon on the tool bar), you could move any wall, or furniture with the mouse, when you approach another wall or furniture with it, it will just snap to it, if the stationery items happen to make up a corner then the furniture will snap to the corner if it's close enough to both. I could even imagine that there would be a preference in setting the strength of the snappiness in pixels. In a few (rare) questionable situations, you could just turn off the feature "Snap To" for those actions. G. |
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