Recent content by griffonwing

I do this quite often with my drafting, especially with drafting fonts. STROKE the font you think it too thin. It also might help to kern the spacing between the letters. Perhaps stretching the letter/word width and height. Using all three of these suggestions should get your font looking...

Illustrator CS4 AutoCAD lines are different colors for different weight strokes. Is there an Ai plugin that, when you open a DWG file, it will interpret the correct line weight according to it's stroke color? I have searched google, and trolled through different sites with no luck. thanks

Yeah. Illustrator has a great capacity for drafting, and is a very powerful program. The main limiting factor is the inability to make a gridline at thousandths of in inch, only hundreds (which limits you to only 1/2, 1/4, 1/10 scale etc, not 1/8 or 3/8). It would also be nice to be able to...

I am doing some CAD drafting, and would like to be able to draft in 1/8 scale. However, I cannot change the grid to .125 inches. I can do .12 or .13, but these throw off the scale of the architectural drawing. I know Hotdoor's CADtools has their own grid setup, but frankly, it's horrendous...

Hrmm.. I suppose this one is a stumper huh. The only other information that I can add is that I have Hotdoor CADtools 6 installed. But there are no settings for keyboard movement in that plugin, so I do not think that has anything to do with the arrows jumping 2 squares instead of 1. If...

Yup. That was the first place I looked. Forgot to mention it. Keybd Increm - 0.0139 in Constr Angle - 0 Cornr Radius - .17 in Now in a new file, or other files, It's fine. They move 1 grid increment. (Snap to Grid is on, btw) But some files, ones that I've been working on for weeks, have...

Using Illustrator CS4, Grids on. I'm doing some drafting work, with the grids set at .38" with 12 subdivisions, making it approx 3/8 scale It used to be that when I arrowed over, it would move the segment or point 1 segment. Now it moves 2. I'm not sure if there's a setting in the...

Thanks greatly!

I'm working for an architect, and I've been doing some architectural drafting of elevations. Door & Window schedules, lighting/electrical elevations, etc... I'll soon need to start on some plumbing elevations. However, one thing that another fellow using AutoCAD can do, that I can't, is...

I am creating some architectural draft elevations (window and door elevations, cabinet elevations, etc). In order to save time, I created most of them using rectangles, and for the most part, it works fine. However, I have come across a few mistakes in judgement. 1) there's no way (to my...

After more surfing the net the notes I was given here on conditional texts, I finally found the solution. I created a text box with some anchored images in the text box, followed by the church name & location centered on the bottom of the page, and after that, I anchored the floor plan and...

Tried it out a bit ago, but there is no Conditional Graphics option, and I can only seem to put conditional modifiers on text, not a whole text box. So, I think this will not be a viable solution after all. But i do thank you for trying to help. (Also, in my previous post, I mean...

I didn't understand what you had written until I googled "indesign conditional text" and found a link to http://help.adobe.com/en_US/InDesign/6.0/WS745C7188-1C17-4eae-8680-2F7C80DE6849.html This it what I was looking for! Very nice. Thank you greatly! It will be only pictures that i will...

Thanks Marcus. After more research, and reading up on it, I had come to that conclusion myself. So this is not what I am looking for. I'll explain exactly what the portfolio is. It consists of pictures of architectural church projects. Each page is devoted to one church. The front page...

Nevermind. I got it. I unchecked "Facing pages" from the Document Setup, which I already knew about. I manually put the spreads together in the pages palette. It'll take a bit to get used to this layout for this particular project, but it will be the best in the long run. Done with this...