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The Poly Designer 2002®
interface uses command line function just like
AutoCAD no learning process involved.
The Poly Designer 2002® interface uses command line function just like
AutoCAD no learning process involved. Our package creates a custom
entity PDESPOLYGON that is tied to its parent. You edit the parent
and the children are automatically updated.
There are currently 14 commands, each is accessible from the command line or the
toolbar. There is no menu. These commands are grouped as follows:
Four commands pertain to the fill creation, each
addressing specific types of fill operations or strategies.
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PDXFILL (Fill the existing color) would collect fillable entities by a chosen
selection method and create fills with its parents current
color style. Fills are created on the same layer as the
fillable entity. If the polylines were drawn with the right
color styles, you can have your CAD presentation done in
just one click. |
Neither AutoCAD nor any other package can do anything
like the PDXFILL command.
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PDFILL would Fill,
Outline or Outline & Fill entities at ease. You can select
any entities of any color styles on any layers and fill them
with a chosen color. |
Yes, AutoCAD can also do multi
entity fill but it has many steps to do the fill.
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Those entities that are filled
together will stay together, you select one (Ex: to change
color on one entity) you would get them all. Multi entity
filled with Poly Designer, you can select them individually.
It can only Fill, Poly Designer can do Outline and Fill.
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PDLFILL
(Layer FILL) would collect fillable entities by a
chosen selection method and create fills (like PDXFILL) on a
selected layer. (A clean way to send the drawing with
separated fills to a graphics package because Graphics does
not behave well with compound entity.)
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Again, neither AutoCAD nor any other package can, in one
step, fill all the polylines in the drawing and send them
all to one layer.
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PDCOPY can create additional fills and send them to
different layer(s) for freezing and thawing. (Example:
showing alternative color schemes) The copied polygon is
also tied to the parent entity.
This command is handy to have, it depends on what you need
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COMMENT:
There would be some users who would say, "AutoCAD can do
Fills too".
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answer is, "Yes, you can create fill with AutoCAD", but there are two
steps process to that:
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First you create
the hatch as a Solid default to White Fill.
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Then you assign a
color to the White Fill.
Again, AutoCAD
provides different ways to select a color. It would be simple if you only
selected the color from an AutoCAD assigned palette. But if you wanted to have a
custom color then you have to do some break dancing to get that and there is no
guarantee that whatever color shown in paper space would be printed because of:
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Palette dependency
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Plotter dependency |
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Have you saved the color that you had selected to the
correct Palette. |
Sum it up, do you
understand the issue of color in the above context.
WHAT POLY DESIGNER DOES:
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With
Poly Designer, to do fills is quick and you can create
custom color fills very easy as 1,2,3 and done, WYSIWYG.
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Again, its multi entity fills do not tie together. You can
select each one separately for a color or attribute changed.
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It would save the new color for you automatically to the
right palette used in that drawing.
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And whatever color you see in paper space is the color that
would be printed. |
Again, to do fills
with Poly Designer is quick and easy and also flexible depending on what you
need.
Three commands pertain to sorting, each applying with specific needs.
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PDBlkEDIT is a unique way to handle a block. You can see
every entity that exists in the block. With the Tree View
Sort built in and Right Click context menu, you can edit the
block anyway you want in its own safe environment.
This PDBlkEDIT command
also is a unique command. It would ease your job when
working with block because you can see every entity in the
block displayed right in plain view. Exploding the block
could be troublesome. No other package has a good and safe
solution to edit the block as we do. |
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PDSORT is a unique and easy way of sorting, you can see the
structure of the drawing displayed on a control Tree View.
It lists by Color, its entity and the layer that it is on.
There are two types of sorting:
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Automatic Sort will automatically sort the drawing to the
Default Setup. This will take care 95+% of the sorting, you
can then clean up the sort as needed with the drag and drop
method. |
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Tree View Sort allows you to manually touch up a previously
sorted drawing. The current sort table is left in tact.
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Tree View has Right Click context menu when select an item
(entity or color) and right click.
This PDSORT command is very unique, AutoCAD sorting capability is
very limited. There is no other package that provides the sorting
capability the Poly Designer does. Nothing is better than to have the
ability to see the structure of the drawing in plain view.
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PD-WSORT would sort a selected window or a viewport. This
would save you time from having to sort the entire drawing.
You would use PDWSORT on large drawing where only a small
area is actually involved in the presentation. In fact this
command was created base on users' specific request. |
NOTE: Tree
View Sort on all commands has Right Click context menu, to bring it
up, you just select an item (entity or color) then right click.
The remaining seven commands, each functioned differently.
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PDCHANGE would change colors and fill attributes of the
selected group of entities (editing). It is an interactive
interface, you see the existing color, the new color and the
change on the fly. In fact, changes are stored right in
the Plot Style Table so if you are working in paper space
(with Show Plot Styles selected) you will see the actual
output colors right away. |
With AutoCAD or other package, you might lose track with
what color you are working on because it takes so many steps
and you don't really see what you are doing.
COMMENT:
There would be also some users who would say, "We can change Fill colors with
AutoCAD too".
The answer is, "Yes, AutoCAD definitely can change Fill colors", but again,
AutoCAD has different ways to change a color. It would be simple if you only
selected the new color from the AutoCAD assigned palette. But if you wanted to
create a new custom color then you have to go through a long process that
involved a few things such as:
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Remembering what Color Style number you want to change. (If
you got distract, you might forget the number and have to
start all over again.) |
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Remembering what palette the drawing is using.
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Save it (be sure to remember what palette to save to.)
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Then type REGENALL to see the change.
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Now you see the color, but if you didn't like it and wanted
the old color back, there is no way you can UNDO it.
WHAT POLY DESIGNER DOES:
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Poly Designer can do color change on the fly. Again the
steps are simple as 1,2,3 and done, WYSIWYG. You don't have
to remember a thing. |
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If somehow you didn't like the new color, just UNDO it, you
will get the old color back. |
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It lists all the colors that are used in the drawing (so you
won't override it) to the left and the color palette to the
right. It is a resizable dialog in both directions shown all
255 colors at once for you to compare them without having to
scroll up and down looking for the color you want.
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It can do any change by selected Entity, by Layer and by
Color (using Tree View right click context menu).
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It can swap color changed between drawings.
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It would save the new color to the palette for you
automatically. |
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And whatever color you see in paper space is the color that
would be printed. |
To do any change in
Poly Designer is easy and also flexible.
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PDFillFlag allows you to toggle all fills on or off globally. It would "hide" all
Poly Designer entities without effecting other solid hatches
or fills created by the AutoCAD FILL Command.
You would use this command when:
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You need to do production work.
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You need to make a change on the drawing, you just turn the
fill off then select the entity and fix it. You do it all in
one place, no application jumping (get back into AutoCAD,
make a change then bring it back out to the other package to
continue the work). |
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AutoCAD does turn the
fill off globally but hatches and wide polylines are also
affected.
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PDFanLine would turn
your regular line into a Fancy line that looks just like
hand drawn. The line pattern is randomly set, it looks real
like you draw it by hand. The overshoots can be fixed or
randomly set. |
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PDFanFlag allows you
to:
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Turn the Fancy line On or Off back to regular line.
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Turn overshoots display On or Off. |
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Turn Fancy Fill On or Off back to regular fill.
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Turn Fancy Fill-Outline ON / OFF. |
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PDPALETTE is a palette
management tool (supplements the plot style manager). It
allows you to assemble a plot style table easily. You also
can copy a palette. You even can retrieve colors from one
plot style table and insert them into another.
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AutoCAD color style
table has been known as being hard to work with, it could be
very confusing sometimes. We don't think any other package
allows users to create custom palette with ease and
flexibility like ours such as swapping color from one
drawing to another.
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PDREMOVE can globally
remove all Poly Designer entities and restore the original
AutoCAD drawing back cleanly or you have the option to
remove by selected entities.
It is provided to users
for convenience and out of concern, in case there was
something wrong with the drawing, being able to bring the
original drawing back, make it easier to find the problem. |
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PD-Translation would
import an AutoCAD DWF file and translate it to
different formats:
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SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics) that is supported by
many Graphics packages. With this format you can take your
drawing to:
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Adobe Illustrator known as the best in graphics especially
their Color Management, Paint Shop Pro etc… Depending on
what you need from each package. |
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You can also send the drawing to the Web for a number of
reasons such as parts lists, web presentation, interactive
demonstration and more. |
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EMF (Enhanced Meta File) that is also supported by
many different packages. You can incorporate an EMF file
into any Desktop Applications that supports EMF and with one
like Microsoft Word you can create a PDF file from it. |
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Bit Map which supports:
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PNG (Portable Net Graphics)
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TGA (Targa)
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TIFF (Tag Information File Format)
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JPEG
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BMP (Window Bit Map)
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These formats can create a very small size file for a large
format up to (7000 x 5000 pixels).
With PNG, a 100Mb file could be compressed down to
2-5Mb file. |
NOTE: Because EPS
(Encapsulated PostScript) creates such a large file our
users prefer to have Bit Map instead of EPS.
This PD-TRANSLATE is the
most important command, it will bring AutoCAD drawing
directly into the Graphics package (Vector and Bit Map) and
out to the world Wide Web in one piece. |
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PDHELP and PDABOUT are support related
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Poly designer 2002 General
Supported Features:
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It is an interactive interface, no application skipping,
WYSIWYG. |
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Since
Poly Designer
creates the fill (custom entity) in
AutoCAD, you are able to work with it in place, setting its
display order is easy and print preview is readily
available. |
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AutoCAD feature such as Paper Space is available no
additional work is required. |
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Supports all standard AutoCAD objects and selection methods.
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Supports AutoCAD Match Properties and Object Property
Manager Display. |
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Seamless operation in Model Space and Paper Space.
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Translation that supports many Vector and Bit Map Graphics
packages and the Web. |
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