Dovetail cutter???

[sheepherder]

Originally Posted by John Sabato

BTW, did you check the Luger blueprints to see what angle is actually specified on the P.08 for the sight dovetail?

If you mean your CD, there's no print for the LP-08 rear sight dovetail.

Originally Posted by John Sabato

Also, Someone recently posted the blueprint of an artillery barrel from a published reference book. I don't remember who did it, or what the subject of the thread was, but if you can find that posting, the angle of the dovetail on an artillery barrel is probably in that drawing...

Ed posted some free-hand sketches & dimensions of a Luger carbine, maybe that is what you mean? I don't see any LP-08 barrel drawings...

Originally Posted by Olle

Have you had any luck with the CAD yet?

I have it installed and have tried a few simple images. What I did isn't all that different from PSP. There is a long tutorial and I'll try to print out the simple sample and see if it is in any way intuitive [to me!].

[Olle]

Originally Posted by sheepherder

I have it installed and have tried a few simple images. What I did isn't all that different from PSP. There is a long tutorial and I'll try to print out the simple sample and see if it is in any way intuitive [to me!].

It's actually more like MS Paint to me, simple and intuitive once you learn where the right command buttons are located. I used it every day when I worked for a cabinet factory, and it took just a few days to get the hang of the basics. You'll really see the benefits once you have built up a decent library of drawings. No more anxiety over that sketch you found wadded up in the pocket of a pair of jeans you just washed, or the one that got destroyed when you flipped over a container of quenching oil on the work bench. You just print a new one and go on.

[sheepherder]

Originally Posted by Olle

It's actually more like MS Paint to me, simple and intuitive once you learn where the right command buttons are located.

Right now I can't find any 'delete' button. I have points & lines that need deleting, but the Point/Edit functions don't list any Delete function. (This is in the tutorial). Until I can delete my mistakes, there's not much usefulness to it. I'll play with it a while more. I don't have a lot of patience. I do have lots of envelopes.

[Olle]

You go to the "Edit" tab at the top, and hit the "Er" button. This will put you in erase mode, so any object you click on will be deleted. You can also do it like Ron suggested: Go to the "Select" tab, select the objects you want to delete, then hit "delete" on your keyboard. After that you hit "enter" to confirm, and the selected objects will be deleted.

You can select multiple objects by "drawing a rectangle" with the mouse (i.e. clicking two corners), but the most useful way is to hold down "Ctrl" and pick the objects by clicking on them. If you select the wrong object, just click on it again and it will be deselected. Once the correct objects are highlighted, hit "delete" and "enter".

Originally Posted by sheepherder

I don't have a lot of patience.

...says the man who is painstakingly building an Artillery Nambu. Yeah, right.