4hotshoez Posted August 7, 2014 Share Posted August 7, 2014 In most drawing programs, CAD or otherwise, the sequence for drawing is click-release-drag-click-release, which is what I am use to. While trying CA for the first time I noticed that it is not so easy to get used to CA's sequence for drawing, click-hold-drag-release. It is less "action", but I find myself having to erase little stub walls created by my click-release method. My question is, is there a setting that can change this input method to the "Autobad" method? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joe_Carrick Posted August 7, 2014 Share Posted August 7, 2014 I don't think so. This is just one of those that you have to get used to. ps: The Autobad method is WRONG ;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KilgoreTrout Posted August 7, 2014 Share Posted August 7, 2014 No, but if you start drawing your walls by right-clicking, you can draw them continuously which might be even faster in some cases. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HumbleChief Posted August 7, 2014 Share Posted August 7, 2014 No, but if you start drawing your walls by right-clicking, you can draw them continuously which might be even faster in some cases. Whaaaat? NEVER knew that. Great tip. BTW I have an employee who uses ACAD and he was showing me how to draw lines etc. and it was crazy making but I got used to it for small tasks and editing ACAD files. Never used the click-release-drag-click-release method in any other CAD program so had a hard time getting used to it but I managed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dennis_Gavin Posted August 7, 2014 Share Posted August 7, 2014 Kilgore - Now that is cool! Is that documented? When/what version did that become available in? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doug_Park Posted August 7, 2014 Share Posted August 7, 2014 Alternate input methods are fairly common. Hidden, but very useful. They are documented in the manual and help. Alternate input methods are available by using Right-Click, ALT-Click or by using the menu/toolbar mode switch. My favorites: 1) Right-Click to draw walls and lines. Right-Click drag, release, drag, click, drag, click... 2) Right-Click on end edit handle to curve a line or wall etc. 3) Right-Click drag to do a 2D array multiple copy. 4) Right-Click drag a corner edit handle on a polyline to maintain the angle. 5) Right-Click to move a wall without it extending attached walls. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HumbleChief Posted August 7, 2014 Share Posted August 7, 2014 STOP Doug!! That's not the way I've learned to do it in the past and I CANNOT learn anything new - please stop now!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DRAWZILLA Posted August 7, 2014 Share Posted August 7, 2014 No, but if you start drawing your walls by right-clicking, you can draw them continuously which might be even faster in some cases. Yes but you need to set that up in "Preferences". maybe he didn't have that set up correctly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
4hotshoez Posted August 7, 2014 Author Share Posted August 7, 2014 Amazing! I go an run some errands and look at all the great help I get. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doug_Park Posted August 7, 2014 Share Posted August 7, 2014 While we are on the topic of hidden features. One of the more powerful things for learn Chief is to take advantage of the contextual help. If you hover the mouse over a toolbutton, menu, edit handle, or if you are in a dialog. Hitting the help key (F1 on Windows), will take you directly to the help for that item. The documentation for Chief is actually way more complete that documentation for most programs these days. The help contains all the information that is in our manual and is possibly the least used feature in Chief. Almost every how to use Chief question that is posed and answered on this forum is learnable from the help system. Another underutilized feature is the support database, which has articles on most of the common things that our support team deals with. http://www.chiefarchitect.com/support/database.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chiefer Posted August 7, 2014 Share Posted August 7, 2014 1) Right-Click to draw walls and lines. Right-Click drag, release, drag, click, drag, click... .....or one Right-Click then shift to Left-Click and so on. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Barton_Brown Posted August 8, 2014 Share Posted August 8, 2014 Yes but you need to set that up in "Preferences". maybe he didn't have that set up correctly. Perry, correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't think right-click to draw continuous walls needs to be set in preferences, at least it wasn't necessary when I just tried it... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kbird1 Posted August 8, 2014 Share Posted August 8, 2014 "Show same wall types Handles" does , but don't think the RC - drag does either... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DRAWZILLA Posted August 8, 2014 Share Posted August 8, 2014 Perry, correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't think right-click to draw continuous walls needs to be set in preferences, at least it wasn't necessary when I just tried it... Yes, this is the setting I was thinking about but It for when you stop drawing a wall. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Barton_Brown Posted August 8, 2014 Share Posted August 8, 2014 Here is a link to a CA 'alternate edit' video: http://video.chiefarchitect.com/?search=alternate+edit Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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