Drawing to Scale

Apache OpenOffice 4.1 Draw Guide

Chapter 10: Advanced Draw Techniques

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• Drawing to Scale
  • Working with the Position and Size Dialog
  • Setting Glue Points
  • Copying Individual Pictures to the Gallery
  • Drawing a Logic Circuit Diagram Using the Gallery
• Dimensioning a Drawing
  • Configuring the Dimensioning Style
  • Dimensioning Objects
  • Editing Dimension Lines
• Working with Text in Draw
  • Configuring Text Elements with Styles
    • Text Animation
    • Text
    • Anchoring Text
    • Fitting Text in Frames
    • Distance From Frame
  • Text Frames and Callouts
  • Pictures and Text
  • Fontwork Gallery
  • Writer OLE Object
    • Insert
    • Editing Mode
    • Object Mode
• Guide to Bézier Curves
  • Bézier Curves—What are They?
  • Direct Drawing of a Bézier Curve
  • Point Mode of the Bézier Curve
  • Drawing a Succession of Bézier Curves
    • Adjusting the Curve Shape
    • Transition Points
    • Changing Point Types
    • Closing the Curve
  • Transformation Between Straight Line and Bézier Curve
    • Transform a Straight Segment into a Bézier Curve
    • Transform a Bézier Curve into a Straight Segment
  • Transform Complete Curves Polylines and Polygons
    • Transform a Polygon or a Polyline into a Curve
    • Transform a Curve into a Polygon or a Polyline
  • Freehand Lines
  • Combining Closed Curves
  • Connecting Curves
• Adding Comments to a Drawing
• Connecting and Breaking Lines

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Drawing to Scale

Draw is not a CAD (computer-aided design) program but a graphics program with which you can produce drawings to scale. The example used in this chapter is a drawing of a Logic Circuit Diagram. The exact meaning of the individual symbols is not given here; we are only interested in the drawing techniques used to produce the diagram.

The logic symbols in Figure 218 form the building-block library for our scale drawing.

Figure 218: Logic Symbol library