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My first CAD test: Was I too tough?

all,

I've never given any prospective employee a "CAD Test," but I was asked to do so
today. I quickly came up with 20 questions which I figured any knowledgable
person who knows the program would be able to hit it out the park.

Instead, I got a serious case of deer-in-the-headlights-itis.

I didn't want to make it version specific, but I understand some questions would
not be answerable for someone running an older release, and gave the person a
pass in those cases.

I also didn't care if the questions were "useful" on a day to day basis; the
idea was to get an idea of how well the user knows AutoCAD.

So, I'll ask you guys: Was this a decent CAD questionnaire?

1. What are the names of the first 7 AutoCAD ACI colors?
1 =
2 =
3 =
4 =
5 =
6 =
7 =

2. What are System Variables? How are they used?

3. When dimensioning in Model space, what DIMSCALE value would you use for
dimensioning for a 3/16"=1'-0" plot?

4. When working with External References (Xrefs) what is the difference between
Overlay and Attach?

5. How would you specify a Viewport scale of 1/4"=1'-0" in a Paper Space
Viewport, using the Command Line?

6. What is a CUI file?

7. What is a fast method for selecting MText objects with a Style of "MEDIUM"?

8. What does the FROM osnap do?

9. What does Zoom Dynamic do?

10. What are the special rules concerning layers and colors in Blocks?

11. If you dimension two parallel walls and get a dimension of 14'-5 13/256",
what do you do?

12. What is one way of dimensioning something along an angle?

13. Explain the difference between the DIVIDE and MEASURE commands.

14. What does PSLTSCALE do?

15. What is an easy way to open an Xref from a parent file?

16. What is an easy way to close a Polyline?

17. What support file do you modify to create custom command aliases?

18. What is the command-line sequence you would use to change all Xref layer
colors to color #8 (gray)?

19. What does BATTMAN do?

20. What command do you use to change your default Plotter?

Extra Credit / Trick Questions:

1. During the MOVE command, what happens if you hit in response to the
"Specify second point or :" prompt?

2. What generally happens when you do a PERPendicular Osnap on a Spline curve?


I had some more trick questions, but since the first 20 didn't go so well, we
just called it a day at that point 😞


Matt
mstachoni@comcast.net
mstachoni@bhhtait.com
255 REPLIES 255
Message 121 of 256
Anonymous
in reply to: Anonymous

He wants to CAD with you.

"Kate M" wrote in message
news:5570891@discussion.autodesk.com...
Define "not working"? What's your procedure?

"Steven Ondrias" wrote in message
news:5570747@discussion.autodesk.com...
that aint working for me... got any other pointers to make it work?.........

--
Steven Ondrias, Technician
President =====> Hunters of Texas
VP =====> Amigo and Jetta Society of America
Member =====> Ted Nugent Fan Club
C3DPOS dual 19's Matrox 650-128 XPpro sp2 dual P 3 Ghz 2GB ram
eagle point guru...
overall a nice guy......
t5's official sausage sender.....

"Kate M" wrote in message
news:5570599@discussion.autodesk.com...
Hover over an object until the snap appears, then move off the line until
the parallel tracking vector appears. It's a little touchy, and you have to
be pretty good at guessing what the parallel vector might be, but it does
work. I think it's the only snap that doesn't actually let you click on the
object you're snapping to, but forces you to click somewhere else.

"Dave Drahn" wrote in message
news:5569908@discussion.autodesk.com...
I'd guess most of us would "pass" - you woulda got me on #8 though if it
read
"What does the PAR osnap do?"

I stilll have not figured out how to use that; read Help, asked around,
dinked with it a few times in my spare time - it's just never switched on
for me.

(Anybody?)


"Matt Stachoni" wrote in message
news:5569527@discussion.autodesk.com...
all,

I've never given any prospective employee a "CAD Test," but I was asked to
do so
today. I quickly came up with 20 questions which I figured any knowledgable
person who knows the program would be able to hit it out the park.

Instead, I got a serious case of deer-in-the-headlights-itis.

I didn't want to make it version specific, but I understand some questions
would
not be answerable for someone running an older release, and gave the person
a
pass in those cases.

I also didn't care if the questions were "useful" on a day to day basis; the
idea was to get an idea of how well the user knows AutoCAD.

So, I'll ask you guys: Was this a decent CAD questionnaire?

1. What are the names of the first 7 AutoCAD ACI colors?
1 =
2 =
3 =
4 =
5 =
6 =
7 =

2. What are System Variables? How are they used?

3. When dimensioning in Model space, what DIMSCALE value would you use for
dimensioning for a 3/16"=1'-0" plot?

4. When working with External References (Xrefs) what is the difference
between
Overlay and Attach?

5. How would you specify a Viewport scale of 1/4"=1'-0" in a Paper Space
Viewport, using the Command Line?

6. What is a CUI file?

7. What is a fast method for selecting MText objects with a Style of
"MEDIUM"?

8. What does the FROM osnap do?

9. What does Zoom Dynamic do?

10. What are the special rules concerning layers and colors in Blocks?

11. If you dimension two parallel walls and get a dimension of 14'-5
13/256",
what do you do?

12. What is one way of dimensioning something along an angle?

13. Explain the difference between the DIVIDE and MEASURE commands.

14. What does PSLTSCALE do?

15. What is an easy way to open an Xref from a parent file?

16. What is an easy way to close a Polyline?

17. What support file do you modify to create custom command aliases?

18. What is the command-line sequence you would use to change all Xref layer
colors to color #8 (gray)?

19. What does BATTMAN do?

20. What command do you use to change your default Plotter?

Extra Credit / Trick Questions:

1. During the MOVE command, what happens if you hit in response to
the
"Specify second point or :" prompt?

2. What generally happens when you do a PERPendicular Osnap on a Spline
curve?


I had some more trick questions, but since the first 20 didn't go so well,
we
just called it a day at that point 😞


Matt
mstachoni@comcast.net
mstachoni@bhhtait.com
Message 122 of 256
Anonymous
in reply to: Anonymous

I also use linetype BYBLOCK for some linetypes in blocks as well.


"John Mayo" wrote in message
news:5569840@discussion.autodesk.com...
We like By Block as well for some stuff. Other stuff is By Layer.

--
John Mayo
Project Engineer
Conklin Associates
Ramsey, NJ

Civil 3D 2007, LDT 2007, Raster Design 2007
P-IV at 3.5 GHz
2 GB Ram
Nvidea Quadro FX w/ 128 MB Ram
wrote in message news:5569734@discussion.autodesk.com...
BOOOOOOOOOO!
Message 123 of 256
Anonymous
in reply to: Anonymous

What happens if the block needs to be inserted on more than one layer where
one layer is turned off but the other one is left on, such as section cuts
on current and future construction where future may be off for some
printings?

"Dave Drahn" wrote in message
news:5569968@discussion.autodesk.com...
They are created with layers that we can control through the layer manager
(well, with routines that change layer colors/linetypes as needed). What if
you have a block that has a need for different lineweights within it? I
suppose you could give poly width, but that limits you by the viewports
scale. Or a block that, in one viewport, you need to turn part of it off?
So, yea, no other good way to deal with that and those are the kinds of
blocks we have - they're kind of detailed.

As far as freeze/thaw (visibility of the entire block), that's accomplished
by what layer the block sits on (our block placement layers are named in
accordance with their "plan space") and has nothing to do with what layers
the block entities are created on - that layer it sits on also does not have
any affect on the color of the block, which is the way we need it here.

... so boo back, Don (tongue raspberryin' you back)

"Don Reichle" wrote in message
news:5569963@discussion.autodesk.com...
Boo, hiss, boo Dave.

So your Blocks rest on Layers that need to be kept track of?

As to whether they're:
On;
Off;
Frozen;
or Thawed?

--
Don Reichle
"The only thing worse than training your staff, and having them leave is -
not training your staff, and having them stay." 😮
A reminder taken from Graphics Solution Providers' Calendar page
-------------------------- ------------------------------------------
!! Please discuss whatever we tell you with your SysMgr !!
!! They appreciate staying in the loop 🙂 !!

LDT-2K4
AMD Athlon64 2.2GHz 2GB RAM
XPPro 32bit SP2
WD Raptor 10K-rpm 37GB HD
Nvidia GeForce FX 5200 128MB

"The only Constant is Change".

"Dave Drahn" wrote in message
news:5569942@discussion.autodesk.com...
And our standard is that NOTHING is drawn on layer 0...

"Lance W." wrote in message
news:5569702@discussion.autodesk.com...
See I prefer BYBLOCK

Matt Stachoni wrote:
>
>>> 10. What are the special rules concerning layers and colors in Blocks?
>> This answer could be an AU topic .
>
> She actually did give the right answer I was looking form, which was to
> use
> Layer 0 and color Bylayer.
Message 124 of 256
Anonymous
in reply to: Anonymous

start the line command first....... then select parallel osnap, hover over a
line you want to draw the started line parallel to......

--
Steven Ondrias, Technician
President =====> Hunters of Texas
VP =====> Amigo and Jetta Society of America
Member =====> Ted Nugent Fan Club
C3DPOS dual 19's Matrox 650-128 XPpro sp2 dual P 3 Ghz 2GB ram
eagle point guru...
overall a nice guy......
t5's official sausage sender.....


"Fred" wrote in message
news:5571052@discussion.autodesk.com...
Steven Ondrias wrote:
> i start the line command, select parrallel as an osnap, hover over a line,
> and nothing happens regardless what i do, if i stay on it or move over
> away
> from it..... does it allow you to draw a line parrallel to another? or is
> it
> for something else?
>

It does not even come close to working for me.
Message 125 of 256
Anonymous
in reply to: Anonymous

😄

don't mind fajarley - he knows not what he does........

--
Steven Ondrias, Technician
President =====> Hunters of Texas
VP =====> Amigo and Jetta Society of America
Member =====> Ted Nugent Fan Club
C3DPOS dual 19's Matrox 650-128 XPpro sp2 dual P 3 Ghz 2GB ram
eagle point guru...
overall a nice guy......
t5's official sausage sender.....


"Guess Who" wrote in message
news:5571071@discussion.autodesk.com...
He wants to CAD with you.

"Kate M" wrote in message
news:5570891@discussion.autodesk.com...
Define "not working"? What's your procedure?

"Steven Ondrias" wrote in message
news:5570747@discussion.autodesk.com...
that aint working for me... got any other pointers to make it work?.........

--
Steven Ondrias, Technician
President =====> Hunters of Texas
VP =====> Amigo and Jetta Society of America
Member =====> Ted Nugent Fan Club
C3DPOS dual 19's Matrox 650-128 XPpro sp2 dual P 3 Ghz 2GB ram
eagle point guru...
overall a nice guy......
t5's official sausage sender.....

"Kate M" wrote in message
news:5570599@discussion.autodesk.com...
Hover over an object until the snap appears, then move off the line until
the parallel tracking vector appears. It's a little touchy, and you have to
be pretty good at guessing what the parallel vector might be, but it does
work. I think it's the only snap that doesn't actually let you click on the
object you're snapping to, but forces you to click somewhere else.

"Dave Drahn" wrote in message
news:5569908@discussion.autodesk.com...
I'd guess most of us would "pass" - you woulda got me on #8 though if it
read
"What does the PAR osnap do?"

I stilll have not figured out how to use that; read Help, asked around,
dinked with it a few times in my spare time - it's just never switched on
for me.

(Anybody?)


"Matt Stachoni" wrote in message
news:5569527@discussion.autodesk.com...
all,

I've never given any prospective employee a "CAD Test," but I was asked to
do so
today. I quickly came up with 20 questions which I figured any knowledgable
person who knows the program would be able to hit it out the park.

Instead, I got a serious case of deer-in-the-headlights-itis.

I didn't want to make it version specific, but I understand some questions
would
not be answerable for someone running an older release, and gave the person
a
pass in those cases.

I also didn't care if the questions were "useful" on a day to day basis; the
idea was to get an idea of how well the user knows AutoCAD.

So, I'll ask you guys: Was this a decent CAD questionnaire?

1. What are the names of the first 7 AutoCAD ACI colors?
1 =
2 =
3 =
4 =
5 =
6 =
7 =

2. What are System Variables? How are they used?

3. When dimensioning in Model space, what DIMSCALE value would you use for
dimensioning for a 3/16"=1'-0" plot?

4. When working with External References (Xrefs) what is the difference
between
Overlay and Attach?

5. How would you specify a Viewport scale of 1/4"=1'-0" in a Paper Space
Viewport, using the Command Line?

6. What is a CUI file?

7. What is a fast method for selecting MText objects with a Style of
"MEDIUM"?

8. What does the FROM osnap do?

9. What does Zoom Dynamic do?

10. What are the special rules concerning layers and colors in Blocks?

11. If you dimension two parallel walls and get a dimension of 14'-5
13/256",
what do you do?

12. What is one way of dimensioning something along an angle?

13. Explain the difference between the DIVIDE and MEASURE commands.

14. What does PSLTSCALE do?

15. What is an easy way to open an Xref from a parent file?

16. What is an easy way to close a Polyline?

17. What support file do you modify to create custom command aliases?

18. What is the command-line sequence you would use to change all Xref layer
colors to color #8 (gray)?

19. What does BATTMAN do?

20. What command do you use to change your default Plotter?

Extra Credit / Trick Questions:

1. During the MOVE command, what happens if you hit in response to
the
"Specify second point or :" prompt?

2. What generally happens when you do a PERPendicular Osnap on a Spline
curve?


I had some more trick questions, but since the first 20 didn't go so well,
we
just called it a day at that point 😞


Matt
mstachoni@comcast.net
mstachoni@bhhtait.com
Message 126 of 256
Anonymous
in reply to: Anonymous

hmm... i tried, but the post didn't make it.... i'll try again...

--
Steven Ondrias, Technician
President =====> Hunters of Texas
VP =====> Amigo and Jetta Society of America
Member =====> Ted Nugent Fan Club
C3DPOS dual 19's Matrox 650-128 XPpro sp2 dual P 3 Ghz 2GB ram
eagle point guru...
overall a nice guy......
t5's official sausage sender.....
Message 127 of 256
Anonymous
in reply to: Anonymous

hey, there... it made it.... here's another...

--
Steven Ondrias, Technician
President =====> Hunters of Texas
VP =====> Amigo and Jetta Society of America
Member =====> Ted Nugent Fan Club
C3DPOS dual 19's Matrox 650-128 XPpro sp2 dual P 3 Ghz 2GB ram
eagle point guru...
overall a nice guy......
t5's official sausage sender.....
Message 128 of 256
Anonymous
in reply to: Anonymous

Steven Ondrias wrote:
> start the line command first....... then select parallel osnap, hover over a
> line you want to draw the started line parallel to......
>
Not even close to working. When snap to par it simple draws a line to
that point.
Message 129 of 256
Anonymous
in reply to: Anonymous

oh, that's cuz you need to get away from the line, back to where a parallel
line would be.... IOW, hover over the line, and go back to the point where
you started the line.... cornfusing, i know, but makes sense after you see
it work..... can't see too many uses for a civil environment though.......
maybe laying out a parking lot.

--
Steven Ondrias, Technician
President =====> Hunters of Texas
VP =====> Amigo and Jetta Society of America
Member =====> Ted Nugent Fan Club
C3DPOS dual 19's Matrox 650-128 XPpro sp2 dual P 3 Ghz 2GB ram
eagle point guru...
overall a nice guy......
t5's official sausage sender.....


"Fred" wrote in message
news:5571098@discussion.autodesk.com...
Steven Ondrias wrote:
> start the line command first....... then select parallel osnap, hover over
> a
> line you want to draw the started line parallel to......
>
Not even close to working. When snap to par it simple draws a line to
that point.
Message 130 of 256
Anonymous
in reply to: Anonymous

Steven Ondrias wrote:
> oh, that's cuz you need to get away from the line, back to where a parallel
> line would be.... IOW, hover over the line, and go back to the point where
> you started the line.... cornfusing, i know, but makes sense after you see
> it work..... can't see too many uses for a civil environment though.......
> maybe laying out a parking lot.
>
I wish I could show you what my screen looks like. Not a single
parallel line.

Message 131 of 256
Anonymous
in reply to: Anonymous

that is because you are clicking, not hovering. it is a little different
from other osnaps. hover anywhere on the line but don't click. you'll see
the par symbol appear, then move away from that line and get close to a
point that would parallel the line. once you get close, it will snap into
place with a dotted extension line. speaking of which, the ext osnap works
in the same fashion. 😉

"Fred" wrote in message
news:5571098@discussion.autodesk.com...
Steven Ondrias wrote:
> start the line command first....... then select parallel osnap, hover over
> a
> line you want to draw the started line parallel to......
>
Not even close to working. When snap to par it simple draws a line to
that point.
Message 132 of 256
Anonymous
in reply to: Anonymous

try what sicko said - he may have explained it a little better......

--
Steven Ondrias, Technician
President =====> Hunters of Texas
VP =====> Amigo and Jetta Society of America
Member =====> Ted Nugent Fan Club
C3DPOS dual 19's Matrox 650-128 XPpro sp2 dual P 3 Ghz 2GB ram
eagle point guru...
overall a nice guy......
t5's official sausage sender.....


"Fred" wrote in message
news:5571147@discussion.autodesk.com...
Steven Ondrias wrote:
> oh, that's cuz you need to get away from the line, back to where a
> parallel
> line would be.... IOW, hover over the line, and go back to the point where
> you started the line.... cornfusing, i know, but makes sense after you see
> it work..... can't see too many uses for a civil environment though.......
> maybe laying out a parking lot.
>
I wish I could show you what my screen looks like. Not a single
parallel line.

Message 133 of 256
Anonymous
in reply to: Anonymous

Matt,

Let me just add that I thought this was a very good post. Thanks.

--
John Mayo
Project Engineer
Conklin Associates
Ramsey, NJ

Civil 3D 2007, LDT 2007, Raster Design 2007
P-IV at 3.5 GHz
2 GB Ram
Nvidea Quadro FX w/ 128 MB Ram
"Matt Stachoni" wrote in message
news:5569527@discussion.autodesk.com...
all,

I've never given any prospective employee a "CAD Test," but I was asked to
do so
today. I quickly came up with 20 questions which I figured any knowledgable
person who knows the program would be able to hit it out the park.

Instead, I got a serious case of deer-in-the-headlights-itis.

I didn't want to make it version specific, but I understand some questions
would
not be answerable for someone running an older release, and gave the person
a
pass in those cases.

I also didn't care if the questions were "useful" on a day to day basis; the
idea was to get an idea of how well the user knows AutoCAD.

So, I'll ask you guys: Was this a decent CAD questionnaire?

1. What are the names of the first 7 AutoCAD ACI colors?
1 =
2 =
3 =
4 =
5 =
6 =
7 =

2. What are System Variables? How are they used?

3. When dimensioning in Model space, what DIMSCALE value would you use for
dimensioning for a 3/16"=1'-0" plot?

4. When working with External References (Xrefs) what is the difference
between
Overlay and Attach?

5. How would you specify a Viewport scale of 1/4"=1'-0" in a Paper Space
Viewport, using the Command Line?

6. What is a CUI file?

7. What is a fast method for selecting MText objects with a Style of
"MEDIUM"?

8. What does the FROM osnap do?

9. What does Zoom Dynamic do?

10. What are the special rules concerning layers and colors in Blocks?

11. If you dimension two parallel walls and get a dimension of 14'-5
13/256",
what do you do?

12. What is one way of dimensioning something along an angle?

13. Explain the difference between the DIVIDE and MEASURE commands.

14. What does PSLTSCALE do?

15. What is an easy way to open an Xref from a parent file?

16. What is an easy way to close a Polyline?

17. What support file do you modify to create custom command aliases?

18. What is the command-line sequence you would use to change all Xref layer
colors to color #8 (gray)?

19. What does BATTMAN do?

20. What command do you use to change your default Plotter?

Extra Credit / Trick Questions:

1. During the MOVE command, what happens if you hit in response to
the
"Specify second point or :" prompt?

2. What generally happens when you do a PERPendicular Osnap on a Spline
curve?


I had some more trick questions, but since the first 20 didn't go so well,
we
just called it a day at that point 😞


Matt
mstachoni@comcast.net
mstachoni@bhhtait.com
Message 134 of 256
Anonymous
in reply to: Anonymous

We keep forgetting to mention that parallel cannot be used to pick the first
point of a line...only the second.

Does that help?

"Fred" wrote in message
news:5571147@discussion.autodesk.com...
Steven Ondrias wrote:
> oh, that's cuz you need to get away from the line, back to where a
> parallel
> line would be.... IOW, hover over the line, and go back to the point where
> you started the line.... cornfusing, i know, but makes sense after you see
> it work..... can't see too many uses for a civil environment though.......
> maybe laying out a parking lot.
>
I wish I could show you what my screen looks like. Not a single
parallel line.

Message 135 of 256
Anonymous
in reply to: Anonymous

Turning off a layer that a block sits on doesn't affect the visibility of
the block. Freezing, does, though, and that's how we use them. That way we
can control what blocks are visible in different views (block resting layers
are separated by simple view types - in our case above slab, common and
below slab). The layers the blocks are created from are the same between
them, though, so we can control aspects of their visibility depending on the
scale and purpose of the viewport. I don't know if that's making sense, but
it works very well for our application (wastewater treatment plants) where
having anything on layer 0 or other than bylayer would make it much more
difficult to manage.

I do see the value of layer 0 for blocks in a lot of applications. It just
didn't make sense to do that here just because "that's the way everyone else
does it".

That, or I'm missing some giant obvious reasoning.

"Warren Trost" wrote in message
news:5571079@discussion.autodesk.com...
What happens if the block needs to be inserted on more than one layer where
one layer is turned off but the other one is left on, such as section cuts
on current and future construction where future may be off for some
printings?

"Dave Drahn" wrote in message
news:5569968@discussion.autodesk.com...
They are created with layers that we can control through the layer manager
(well, with routines that change layer colors/linetypes as needed). What if
you have a block that has a need for different lineweights within it? I
suppose you could give poly width, but that limits you by the viewports
scale. Or a block that, in one viewport, you need to turn part of it off?
So, yea, no other good way to deal with that and those are the kinds of
blocks we have - they're kind of detailed.

As far as freeze/thaw (visibility of the entire block), that's accomplished
by what layer the block sits on (our block placement layers are named in
accordance with their "plan space") and has nothing to do with what layers
the block entities are created on - that layer it sits on also does not have
any affect on the color of the block, which is the way we need it here.

... so boo back, Don (tongue raspberryin' you back)

"Don Reichle" wrote in message
news:5569963@discussion.autodesk.com...
Boo, hiss, boo Dave.

So your Blocks rest on Layers that need to be kept track of?

As to whether they're:
On;
Off;
Frozen;
or Thawed?

--
Don Reichle
"The only thing worse than training your staff, and having them leave is -
not training your staff, and having them stay." 😮
A reminder taken from Graphics Solution Providers' Calendar page
-------------------------- ------------------------------------------
!! Please discuss whatever we tell you with your SysMgr !!
!! They appreciate staying in the loop 🙂 !!

LDT-2K4
AMD Athlon64 2.2GHz 2GB RAM
XPPro 32bit SP2
WD Raptor 10K-rpm 37GB HD
Nvidia GeForce FX 5200 128MB

"The only Constant is Change".

"Dave Drahn" wrote in message
news:5569942@discussion.autodesk.com...
And our standard is that NOTHING is drawn on layer 0...

"Lance W." wrote in message
news:5569702@discussion.autodesk.com...
See I prefer BYBLOCK

Matt Stachoni wrote:
>
>>> 10. What are the special rules concerning layers and colors in Blocks?
>> This answer could be an AU topic .
>
> She actually did give the right answer I was looking form, which was to
> use
> Layer 0 and color Bylayer.
Message 136 of 256
Anonymous
in reply to: Anonymous

indeed... don't click the mouse when you're hovering over the line, wait
until you want to pick the second point of the line parallel to the hovered
one........

good call, Kate.

--
Steven Ondrias, Technician
President =====> Hunters of Texas
VP =====> Amigo and Jetta Society of America
Member =====> Ted Nugent Fan Club
C3DPOS dual 19's Matrox 650-128 XPpro sp2 dual P 3 Ghz 2GB ram
eagle point guru...
overall a nice guy......
t5's official sausage sender.....


"Kate M" wrote in message
news:5571243@discussion.autodesk.com...
We keep forgetting to mention that parallel cannot be used to pick the first
point of a line...only the second.

Does that help?

"Fred" wrote in message
news:5571147@discussion.autodesk.com...
Steven Ondrias wrote:
> oh, that's cuz you need to get away from the line, back to where a
> parallel
> line would be.... IOW, hover over the line, and go back to the point where
> you started the line.... cornfusing, i know, but makes sense after you see
> it work..... can't see too many uses for a civil environment though.......
> maybe laying out a parking lot.
>
I wish I could show you what my screen looks like. Not a single
parallel line.

Message 137 of 256
Anonymous
in reply to: Anonymous

Kate M wrote:
> We keep forgetting to mention that parallel cannot be used to pick the first
> point of a line...only the second.
>
> Does that help?
>

No! 🙂 I did pick that up somewhere along this thread.
Message 138 of 256
Anonymous
in reply to: Anonymous

11. If you dimension two parallel walls and get a dimension of 14'-5
13/256",
what do you do?

I'd be amazed at the accuracy of my drawing! 😉
Message 139 of 256
Anonymous
in reply to: Anonymous

sicko wrote:
> that is because you are clicking, not hovering.

OK, got it. Thanks.
Message 140 of 256
Anonymous
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Nice. I like it (even though it's far'n). For mine just Google a white '99
blazer and put some Bridgestone A/T's on it.


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