PlaneViews.bas

Version 1.1 (2013-02-08) revised to handle greater precision with DeltaCad 8.0

Developed by: John L. Hutchings - "shipwright", Trenton Ontario Canada
              Feb. 08, 2013


The file named QLFerry.dc is a sample drawing showing the front view of
a model ship, with the plane views which this program will generate shown
as well.

For most of my drawings, I work from photographs of ships which are usually
taken at some angle.  When developing drawings for my projects I like to
create an axonometric view which gives a more 3D look, and reveals defects 
in my original drawing.

Creating this image using cirlces and lines for the new coordinates is extremely
tedious, and as changes are made to the original, they must also be transferred 
manually to the new image.

The program does not handle ellipse objects (yet).  It identifies any that it
finds for the user to manually change to a spline before running the macro. It also ungroups any grouped onjects found, so be sure to apply the macro only to a copy of your original drawing, to prevent damage.  It should handle lines, circles, arcs, shapes and splines.

To use, set your desired point, line, circle and spline parameters first.
Then enclose the group of objects you which to create an image for in a "select"
box.  Run the macro.

From the images it creates, the user can apply the standard mirror function to 
create additional views.

I would appreciate feedback from users with regard to usefulness, bugs found 
and what improvements could be made.

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Description/Instructions for Revision 1 (version 1.1):


Program finds all points in a selected box of objects, finds minimum x,y as origin, and tranforms image to one of four new planes.

Preset desired linetype, weight and color for points, lines, circles, splines prior to execution.

Ungroup all grouped objects first.
Convert all ellipses to splines before running this macro.