Using Excel Drawing tools for Design Sketches
I'm a civil/struct. design engineer. I use Excel's Drawing Tools (View-Toolbars-Drawing) to illustrate the calculations and make sketches. I'm convinced that making sketches with calc's is very important. When I first started making sketches it took quite a time, but with practice it became much faster. Now it takes the same time as making a sketch manually. There are a lot of time saving tricks in Excel Drawing � which could be mastered with practice. I need some adjustments of Drawing Tools for my purposes� but I do not know how to do it. Some of these are: 1- scaling; is there a way to make a drawing to scale? 2- printing; when printing circles become elipses; 3- is there a good book (or on the Web) on making drawings with Excel? 4- charting; is it associated with Drawing Tools and how can I use it for drafting? 5- is there a Group dedicated to drafting on Excel? Any ideas, suggestions, comments�.? Simon Goykhman, Toronto goykhman@rogers.com
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Simon - I've used Excel for this, by charting points that outline an object I wanted drawn precisely. Very tedious. I can only imagine the MS Office drawing tools are even worse. The tool I've used frequently for this is Visio, another MS product you'll have to shell out more cash for. It's kind of a poor man's CAD program, without the steep learning curve and with the user interface designed for inhabitants of this planet. The CAD package my colleagues use at work has half the screen filled with buttons that don't resemble their functions, and you need a three-button mouse, but there's still no context menu. I know of no resources for technical drawing (drafting) in MS Office, although John Walkenbach has posted some drawings sent to him by an artist named Debbie Gewand (http://j-walk.com/ss/excel/odd/odd22.htm). - Jon ------- Jon Peltier, Microsoft Excel MVP http://www.geocities.com/jonpeltier/Excel/index.html _______ Simon wrote: > I'm a civil/struct. design engineer. > I use Excel's Drawing Tools (View-Toolbars-Drawing) to illustrate the > calculations and make sketches. I'm convinced that making sketches > with calc's is very important. When I first started making sketches it > took quite a time, but with practice it became much faster. Now it > takes the same time as making a sketch manually. There are a lot of > time saving tricks in Excel Drawing � which could be mastered with > practice. I need some adjustments of Drawing Tools for my purposes� > but I do not know how to do it. Some of these are: > 1- scaling; is there a way to make a drawing to scale? > 2- printing; when printing circles become elipses; > 3- is there a good book (or on the Web) on making drawings with Excel? > 4- charting; is it associated with Drawing Tools and how can I use it > for drafting? > 5- is there a Group dedicated to drafting on Excel? > > Any ideas, suggestions, comments�.? > > Simon Goykhman, > Toronto > goykhman@rogers.com
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