One of my many :-) presents to myself was one of the new Wacom Intuos 3 tabletsapart from looking really cool, they have addressed the problem of not having a scroll wheel on a pen by introducing a slide strip and buttons on both sides of the tablet. except Allplan.!īirthday - Well, it has been a week of celebrations for my 50th Birthday (2/10). Wouldn't it be nice if they finally updated the leader line tool so that it had an arrow at the end - but I bet they won't! To be able to create leader lines with a little arrow at the end to point notes at locations on the drawing is one of the fundamental time-savers in all CAD systems. A completely revised Dimension module, modernised text editor and a generally more 'Windows' look to everything are being mentioned but we will have to wait for an English 'What's new in v2005' to appear sometime in the New Year to be certain what is included. in fact it worked better in v2003! It also looks as though cills might be available to window openings.
At present in v2004.0b4 this is not working properly. returns in cavity walls as they are known here in the UK). While still in beta testing the official 'What's new' should be out in January (the German version anyway).Īs usual with Nemetschek it's a steady development rather than a spectacular jump but some good news is that it sounds as though they have finally fixed the wall reveals creation and editing in multi-Layer walls (i.e.
NEMETSCHEK ALLPLAN SCHULUNG DRIVERS
Nice to see that there are recent certified Allplan drivers for the Nvidia Quadro range of cards on the Nvidia driver download site.Īllplan v2005 - Some details are emerging of the likely new features in Allplan v2005. (The FX4000 is just out but is too expensive to justify even for 3D CAD use at the moment).
Incidentally I am using a PNY Quadro FX2000 graphics card with dual DVI outputs to drive the 2 monitors.Īnother bargain at the moment is the FX3000 card from Andy Hankins at - that arrives tomorrow and should be even faster than the FX2000. It works extremely well, but for day-to-day use it is more comfortable to just use the Cintiq on it's own - you can pull it off the desk and onto your lap :-) You then need to recalibrate the Wacom and so the pen only works within the tablet screen and you must use the mouse to access the top screen. You can then save the window layout in Allplan.
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To do this with Allplan you need to stretch the top of the main window up into the 'upper' monitor - here I put the animation window and created some elevation and plan windows on the Cintiq. Just for fun I set it up in a dual monitor configuration.
Running Plandesign on it is nice, but using it with Allplan is fantastic - so natural to be looking down at your work. In the meantime I was lucky to find a Wacom dealer in London (brilliant service btw) who still has a couple of these fantastic electronic 'drawing boards' at less than the original price.
There is a new model coming out in February 2005 from Wacom I am told, but no-one has any information on the specification. Wacom Cintiq 18sx - Wacom have apparently discontinued the 18sx monitor/tablet (which I think is the same device that Nemetschek have been selling as the D-board along with their elegant Plandesign software).