I am drawing house plans. Do you know of a source of standard building symbols,eg showers, baths, toilets etc, that can be imported and used in CadStd?
A. Kohler has a free symbol library in DXF. The (2D) files can be imported into CadStd. If you havn’t gone through the tutorial yet I recommend that you do so before starting your symbol creation. Click here to go to Kohler’s site. Q. Why does nothing happen when I try to load a DXF file? A. DXF files can take quite a while to load, and CadStd does not have any progress indicator. If the file is very large (>1MB) a 1Ghz computer can take up to five minutes to load the document (so be patient). Another problem with DXF files is they are not created equal. It’s possible the version of DXF you are trying to read is unreadable by CadStd. When this is the case you may get a partial or blank image. If you have a choice when exporting DXF files from other products choose version 12 or earlier version of DXF. Keep in mind that some expensive CAD programs that export DXF don’t really want you to be able to import their drawings into other (perhaps less expensive) competing alternatives. Q. I ha
