Sixth Week of DRFT 4A

The previous lab was completed without much hassle.  I didn't remember the object having to be made exactly in model space until Thorenburg checked it.  I couldn't figure out how to zoom in and out of the view and have the info section to lock in place.  Luckily I had already made in one model space which he found and accepted.

Today I went over some of the things covered in the videos this week.  One of them was the copy feature that I used for the rows of circles that are to be drawn on the lab this week.  I tried copying the tiny circles on the upper left of the figure and found it a bit tedious to work with using lines with certain length and offsetting them each.  I decided to use the array feature on the video I saw but found it as tedious as the previous method since the array only seems to make groups with the chosen object on the bottom left of it and the array can't be moved like one entire object.



Everything else, the fillet, chamfer features were easy to use and very precise.  I haven't been able to get the teacher to check it yet and couldn't make it to the class on Wednesday.

Fourth Week 9/5 & 9/7

I've been tinkering with the extend methods and the circle commands.  The commands include a center, radius command which allows you the exact radius of a circle that you wish to insert, a center, diameter command which sets the circle depending on diameter.  There is also a two point and three point command that allows the user to set up a circle by selecting either two or three places on the virtual graph.  There is also a Tan, Tan, Radius and Tan, Tan, Tan command that can set a circle to touch exactly two or three points on a line.  It would actually seem like a lot on paper, but overall, it's not something you can't easily learn in a couple of days.

There was also the trimming and extend effects that I've learned, but haven't gotten around quite yet, which I will as I start the lab today.  Looking at the lab, the class is now starting get less easy since  a lot of the stuff over the weeks that we've went over are to be used here.

Also been trying to edit the title of my blog which I've posted "Second week".  No success in changing it yet.

EDIT:  It's been changed.

COPYMODE - this command allows you to set a value of either 1 to create a single copy or 0 to create mutiple copies when using the command

CIRCLERAD - this command set the default radius for the circle when pressing enter

EDGEMODE - this command determines what boundaries the TRIM and EXTEND can trim or extend, respectively

OFFSETGAPTYPE - Controls how potential gaps between segments are treated when closed polylines are offset