Line/Object drawing

[ycfan]

I am trying to prepare a foundation calculation template for future projects and the attached file is an example. However, I have encountered some issues which I failed to find an answer from the user's guide.

1) How to draw a vertical line (or horizontal line if required) as highlighted in the attachment if it is not something already built in the programme?

2)How may I create a simple foundation layout as the object in the attachment? The way I tried is our draftsman did a CAD drawing and converted to JPG file so that I could inert an image to the same page. But it is time consuming and lots of hassle to get it look right. Is there an easy way to do so?

Many thanks for your great help.
Jason

[ptc-1368288]

1. The drawing is a drawing that you make elsewhere,
then copy, reduce color level, paste in Mathcad .
2. The vertical red lines aren't mathematical objects.
Make them in Excel, paste in Mathcad.

jmG

[RichardJ]

On 1/28/2010 9:39:17 AM, ycfan wrote:
>1) How to draw a vertical line
>(or horizontal line if
>required) as highlighted in
>the attachment if it is not
>something already built in the
>programme?

You need to draw them in some other program (for example Word), then copy and paste them into the Mathcad document. Some simple drawing tools are on the wish list, but we don't have them yet.

>2)How may I create a simple
>foundation layout as the
>object in the attachment? The
>way I tried is our draftsman
>did a CAD drawing and
>converted to JPG file so that
>I could inert an image to the
>same page. But it is time
>consuming and lots of hassle
>to get it look right. Is there
>an easy way to do so?

Do you mean the figure? There is no easier way. Mathcad is not a drawing package, and cannot create a figure like that. Don't insert it as a bitmap though. They make the file size very big, and are not scaleable. Get the draftsman to copy and paste the drawing to Word as a picture (not a bitmap). Then copy it from Word and paste it into Mathcad as a picture.

Richard