[Xastir] Draw Button

kim ac7yy at comcast.net
Mon Jul 13 12:31:25 EDT 2009


On Mon, 2009-07-13 at 10:14 -0600, Tom Russo wrote:

> 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.
> 

Thank you Tom ... have it now :) I was playing with 'area objects' also.
We had a lost child drill last week and used that to define search areas
for each team. They worked well but it was a lot of trial and error to
get the size of the area I wanted. Great tools and thank you much.

kim





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