[Xastir] Draw Button

Tom Russo russo at bogodyn.org
Mon Jul 13 12:14:15 EDT 2009


On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 09:05:26AM -0700, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the <ac7yy at comcast.net> flavor, containing:
> The 'draw' button depresses but when I try to draw an area nothing
> happens? In Map=>Draw CAD Object=> all are selected
> 
> Any ideas?

Use the middle mouse button to draw (or chord the left and right buttons if
you have only two buttons).  Click the middle button to place a vertex.  Use
the menu to close a polygon after several vertices are placed.

When CAD object mode was written, a decision was made to have it use the 
middle button so that the other two buttons still function as normal.

It continues to confuse new users and those of us who rarely use the mode, but 
it is documented in the Help->Help Index->CAD Objects helpfile.

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