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What's New in WildTools? |
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Can drafting get any easier, or more powerful, than WildTools?
Oh, yes. Yes, indeed!
Does it seem like WildTools has everything you need? What more could you want than WildTools?
WildTools 6.0!
Now we can sketch
Prepare yourself for another boost in drafting speed, drawing power and productivity. WildTools 6.0 includes the Pivot Line, Hatchet, Area Patterning tool and more. The Needle tool now has text capabilities. The Magic Needle cursor allows for global changes by the Needle and Style tools. WildTools 3D now has axonometric scaling. Plus the new SketchTools and PerspectiveTools palettes. And it's available now. So, what do you get?
Pivot Line Tool
The Pivot Line tool provides a quick way of doing a radial offset
of a line.
Using the Pivot Line tool
Area Patterning
Tool
This tool allows you to place patterns of objects, such as irrigation
sprinkler heads, within a closed shape.
Using the Area Patterning tool
Hatchet Tool
The Hatchet tool is a one-click trim/extend tool.
Click on a line and it is trimmed to the nearest crossing point.
Or use the tool to extend a line to the nearest crossing point.
Running Dimension
Tool
There's a new Running Dimension tool.
Running dimensions are commonly used in steel detailing
Needle Tool
The Needle tool now has text capabilities. You can pick up and
put down font, font size and font styles from text objects and
dimension objects as well.
The Magic Needle cursor allows for global changes by the Needle and Style tools. Hold down the Shift Key to get the Magic Needle cursor and click on an object. The tool will then change all matching objects in the drawing.
Changing all green two-point objects to red one-point objects
The purpose of this is to allow you to change the pen size, color, or other attributes for all objects that are an exact match for the object that you click on. Let's say you want to change all objects with a pen color of green and a pen size of two points to a one millimeter pen size. Set the Needle tool to a one millimeter pen size and for the tool to change only the pen size, then hold down the Shift key and click on a green, two point line and all green, two point objects in the drawing will be changed in one setting.
Reverse Text
Reverse text with objects like these
Reverse Text options are now available for the Balloon Text tool, Section Line tool, and essentially all tools that place text within a border object.
Bevel Groove Weld with Fillet
Bevel groove weld with fillet
The Welding Symbol tool now handles a bevel groove weld with fillet.
Axonometric Scaling
WildTools 3D now has axonometric scaling -- the foreshortening
of receding lines.
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This produces a projection of the drawing onto a picture plane, similar to a perspective drawing, however parallel lines remain parallel. Thus, the projection may be thought of as a perspective drawing viewed from infinity.
The PerspectiveTools Palette
PerspectiveTools
brings the power of WildTools to the world of perspective drawing.
PerspectiveTools and the Perspective Cube Window
This is what you can do with PerspectiveTools
PerspectiveTools works much like WildTools 3D, so you already know how to use it. You set the vanishing points, station point and draw.
The SketchTools Palette
SketchTools
provides tools for pen-and-ink drawings, and other rough sketches.
SketchTools
There are tools for sketching lines, parallel lines, circles and arcs. The Brush tool is a freehand drawing tool. Many brush shapes are provided and all are editable.
Sketch in 2D, axonometric and perspective, all in the same drawing.
SketchTools is integrated with WildTools 3D and PerspectiveTools so you can do axonometric or perspective sketches as well.
And More
Black Color for All and Colorize All are now undo-able.
Mirror by Line and Mirror tools provide ability to mirror about a perpendicular line.
Setups are provided for the Balloon Text tool and Squiggle.
The Parallel Offset tool will now offset from objects on other layers, even if Edit All Layers is turned off.
The Hole Pattern, Shear Tab and Gusset Plate tools now have a slotted hole option.
The Spin tool lets you rotate objects about their centers.
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