Create picture or mulitple layout or jpeg?

[Anonymous]

I am working on a design package for die design, and using a dialog box to
show a picture of the general layout of
many of the components i.e. top die shoe, lower die shoe, the blocks that
stack up in between etc. In this dialog box a number of fields can be
filled in to enable changing plate thickness' etc. I am using a bitmap
imported into the object dcl dialog box. I would however like to be able to
show the items to scale as the dimensions are changed. This of coarse will
not work with just a "picture".

Is there any way to use a layout or is it even possible to show this stuff
in an "additional" model space layout (not sure that is even possible) or
paper space layout and somehow automatically import a picture of that into
the dialog?

Or should I try to somehow make a layout interactive like the dialog box?

Kind of stuck!

Thanks again!




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Bob Q
Pentium 4 3.33 GHz
1GB RAM
XP Pro SP2
ATI Mobility Radeon 9000 IGP graphics.....
MDT 2004DX

[honkinberry]

I would tend to think the easiest solution is to keep with the direction you have been going.
If all you really need to do is to scale a bitmap, there are ActiveX libraries you can use to do so.
And if you are operating off a local server, you could use the PHP image manipulation functions to accomplish this for free.

Otherwise, I would think the thing to do would be to have the program carry out all the activities that the user is indicating in the dialog box -- then a quick click of a button hides the dialog, letting the user pan and zoom around as desired in the layout, with a Right Click returning to the dialog box, much like the hatch preview process. And yes, you could certainly have all this occurring in a new layout that was created just for this purpose.

--J

[Anonymous]

If I wanted to have a button to switch out to a
layout, and have the "to scale" stuff automatically created in one of the
layouts, is there much different about layout tabs versus model space?  I
have to admit I have never attempted to use them.... 😞

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Bob Q
Pentium 4 3.33 GHz
1GB RAM
XP Pro SP2
ATI
Mobility Radeon 9000 IGP graphics.....
MDT 2004DX

style="PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #000000 2px solid; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px">

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I
would tend to think the easiest solution is to keep with the direction you
have been going. If all you really need to do is to scale a bitmap, there are
ActiveX libraries you can use to do so. And if you are operating off a local
server, you could use the PHP image manipulation functions to accomplish this
for free. Otherwise, I would think the thing to do would be to have the
program carry out all the activities that the user is indicating in the dialog
box -- then a quick click of a button hides the dialog, letting the user pan
and zoom around as desired in the layout, with a Right Click returning to the
dialog box, much like the hatch preview process. And yes, you could certainly
have all this occurring in a new layout that was created just for this
purpose. --J

[honkinberry]

I think at this point you better start explaining what it is that you're after. 🙂

Paperspace is just like holding a piece of paper above your modelspace -- the viewport is the rectangle you cut in the paper to view your modelspace, and you can move the paper closer and farther away to "scale" the modelspace, and you can rotate the view as well -- all the while, you are not changing anything regarding the modelspace.

--J

[Anonymous]

Basically I would like the user to be able to
change the settings in a dialog box and be able to "show" in a picture an
example of what the settings might

create, true to scale.... it involves multiple
dimensions, and blocks that might change, so the concept of scaling a jpeg or
something won't work.  I need to

somehow draw something in the back ground, then
zoom to it, or show it somehow, without interfering with the normal work going
on in the drawing.

But you can "draw" in paperspace or
not?

Thanks, Bob.

--
Bob Q
Pentium 4 3.33 GHz
1GB RAM
XP Pro SP2
ATI
Mobility Radeon 9000 IGP graphics.....
MDT 2004DX

style="PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #000000 2px solid; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px">

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I
think at this point you better start explaining what it is that you're after.
🙂 Paperspace is just like holding a piece of paper above your modelspace --
the viewport is the rectangle you cut in the paper to view your modelspace,
and you can move the paper closer and farther away to "scale" the modelspace,
and you can rotate the view as well -- all the while, you are not changing
anything regarding the modelspace. --J