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GardenCAD Tricks

Submitted by tgatutor on Sun, 09/07/2008 - 09:00

This page lists some brief notes on various GardenCAD tips and tricks.

[Most of these tips are illustrated in short movies in the course 'Using GardenCAD - CAD software for landscape designers' at our companion web site - http://www.landscapetutor.net.]

To unselect an object, press the <Shift> key and pick the object again.
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Press <Ctrl>+T to switch display of lineweights mode.
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<Ctrl>+R switches visibility of raster and vector objects.
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When drawing a polyline, right click mouse button and select options from a new pop up menu.
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Keep scroll bars turned off:

It is possible via Options to turn the scroll bars on. We do not recommend this as you lose too much screen area. It is much better to learn to pan by holding the wheeel of the mouse down (and keeping it down) while you drag. This provides a very good way of panning the drawing without the need to use scroll bars.

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Tracking:

One of the most powerful features of GardenCAD is its tracking option. This tool allows you to draw horizontal or vertical lines with ease and precision. Not only can GardenCAD draw lines orthogonal to one another (and at 45 degrees and other standard angluar increments) but it is also possible to create your own drawing angle and draw othogonal to it. Note that tracking is not turned on by default. You need to double click on the tacking button and the distance button on the bottom status line. Don't forget that you can set a special tracking angle as a supplementary value. This is especially useful if (say) the house is twisted on the block and you want to work at right angles to the house.

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