If you have a large wall area available perhaps you would like a large sundial. Now its time to think about how large the sundial will be. The dxf file saved is now ready to be opened in DeltaCad. The substyle line was also drawn in magenta to help with the positioning of the gnomon. An analemma was included with the noon line to make it easier to find. The time interval between hour lines is 15 minutes. The hour lines indicate zonal solar time or local apparent time with longitude correction.
The following parameters were used for this design: filename without extension TEMP kind of sundial flat sundial year 2007 standard meridian 90º West local meridian 95º West latitude 50º North dial inclination 90 (vertical) dial declination 15 (west) gnomon 15 The information presented in the “constants of flat sundial” section was: styleheight -38.38 stylelength 24.16 (gnomon / sin (styleheight) = 15 / sin 38.38) x style perforation -4.02 x style perforation 18.51 hourangle substyle 19.28 angle substyle / y-axis -167.75 The sundial was designed for a declination of 15º west. Figure 1 shows the ZW2000 design just prior to being saved as a dxf file. You can then review the functions in more detail if you need to.
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You should have your DeltaCad manual available. They will not be discussed in detail here. You should have read “DeltaCad and Your Sundial”, which provides information on some important DeltaCad topics. The information presented here is applicable to the design of any sundial. This presentation is only one approach and as you become familiar with DeltaCad you will learn techniques that you may prefer or that are better than those discussed here. In this document we will look at opening the dxf file in DeltaCad and modifying it so it can be used as a template for creating a real working sundial. dwg file formats are supported.1 The Sundial Primer created by DeltaCad and Your Vertical Declining Sundial Carl Sabanski In the instruction set “ZW2000 and Your Vertical Declining Sundial” we went through the process of designing a vertical declining sundial with ZW2000 and saving it as a dxf file.
Several more macro examples have been added. Drawing forms for metric drawings have been added (A0, A1, A2, A3, A4_P, A4_L, A5, A6). There is an option for an isometric grid. You can now change the color, size and shape of the snap mode indicator. If you set a Selected objects base point, it is now visible on the drawing. Added an option for a leading zero on dimensions, so. If the drawing units (inches, millimeters, etc.) are changed, dimension text will automatically be re-calculated. A "Find Drawing" button has been added to the View toolbar tab to help find the drawing if you have accidentally zoomed out too far, and you can't find the drawing.
Move selected objects to bottom of Z-order. Move selected objects from the select base point to the origin.
A misc button has been added to the Select toolbar tab with the following new functions: This makes it easy to have a light colored background image. You can now adjust the brightness and color saturation of imported images, or make them Black and White. You can change the units of a drawing, without having to re-draw anything. Units have been added to drawing scale to make it very easy to draw in any units (inches, feet, yards, miles, millimeters, centimeters, meters, kilometers, etc.). Unicode text is now supported, so you can enter virtually any character in any language. The internal precision for x/y drawing coordinates has been increased to an almost unlimited size.
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