Another sneak preview

[Bill Stanley]

Hi.

Bill Stanley

[Bill Stanley]

[Derek]

Oh YES!

Layer transparency

The fourth column in the window looks like layer print control

"Dup" button. duplicate layer?

...and what's the third column with the red asterisk?

It all looks great Bill.

[lavardera]

And I wonder what that sort layer list check button does? And the hide invisible - to shorten the list?

[dwm]

Bill;

You're having fun teasing us, aren't you?

Duplicate Layers, that was on my wish list.

Control printability, that one too.

The "Pink" star, hmmmm, I'm stumped, what is it?

[erikmar]

I agree - it looks very good (as did the custom object styles screenshots).

I'd guess that the red asterisk is to toggle object snapping by layer.

Hopefully, we'll still be able to select several layers simultaneously and toggle the options for all selected layers at once.

If the 4th column is layer print control, I wonder how that will play out with PC's WYSIWYG paradigm - I can see new users trying to print what they see on the screen, not noticing that a layer has its print indicator set incorrectly.

[jasonlocher]

is that the snap star I see? hot damn we can turn off snapping to layers AND get transparency control!? I'm beside myself.

[Howard]

Bill Stanley, are you aware of the Architosh Powercadd formum at:
http://architoshforums.forest.net/forumdisplay.php?f=8

I would hate to see Powercadd become some kind of cult following. A year plus of Powercadd 6 with no mention of it in MacWorld, MacCentral or anything mainstream. Now with PC7 immenent, you have a chance to redeem yourself, and get the word out beyond the existing users. I'll be watching!!

[Bill Stanley]

Hi Derek.

...and what's the third column with the red asterisk?
I notice that Mike agreed to put ‘Resolve Dispute’ code in the Debug menu.
The third column almost looks like a snap indicator.

hide invisible - to shorten the list?
Yes.

I'd guess that the red asterisk is to toggle object snapping by layer.
Eric, good guess.

Hopefully, we'll still be able to select several layers simultaneously and toggle the options for all selected layers at once.
Intended to work as you describe.

Bill Stanley

[David Scott]

The Layer Transparency idea is brilliant Bill. I can't wait. At last I'll be able to do mixed room zone shading on my floor plans without having to fiddle about moving layers any more.

David

PS Sorry to be a bit of a nit picker, but there's a couple of greengrocer's apostrophes in the notes.

[JohnMorse]

Is it reasonable to assume that the large, red, semi-see-through arrows and their shadows in this Preview are, in fact, drawn in PowerCADD 7?

[ftribel]

-Layer shadow like in photoshop ? (and your drawing, Bill)

-Possibilty to obtain transparencies only in fillings and not on lines, in the same layer (to avoid inflation of layers and get more dynamic drawings) ?

Your gave a hand, I would like to get the whole arm.

[huc]

[pbacot]

Transparency (or whatever you call it) has indeed been at least one of the holy grails of PowerCADD.( Hey--whatever's going on in the latest versions--my ACAD friend can't seem to manage grayscale properly yet!)

This puts the icing on the cake of PowerCADDS graphic treats. Many thanks, Bill and all of ES. Thanks for keeping the faith.

Still, seeing the nice new layers list (a bigger palette requiring more real estate), I can't help but mention my favorite wishlist item--making layer locking accessible at the main window level.

The new features like transparency and the snap by layer will really change how I work. Also it appears you can dim a layer using the opacity control--which I used to use colors for before, eschewing the built-in dimming as too crude. This will be a great help for various overlay drawings.

As too opacity and transparency. It appears that this transparency assumes that there is a white background. "Well there is", you may say. But really for a piece of colored glass to be transparent--it does not necessarily change color at all--it does not get whiter, until an object is viewed through it. It looks like in this case the white paper is a object that will always be seen through the transparent object.

[huc]