Basic TechDraw Tutorial for Review

[wandererfan]

There's been a couple of comments in the forum about the non-existence of this: Basic TechDraw Tutorial. Any comments or suggestions would be welcome.

One specific problem - I could not get the language bar to appear. I put it at the top, the bottom and in between, but it refuses to show up.

Thanks,
wf

[renatorivo]

There's been a couple of comments in the forum about the non-existence of this: Basic TechDraw Tutorial. Any comments or suggestions would be welcome.

Thanks

One specific problem - I could not get the language bar to appear. I put it at the top, the bottom and in between, but it refuses to show up.

Now there is.

[NormandC]

Great! It looks pretty complete, why not rename it to Basic TechDraw Tutorial now?

I made minor edits to the Titlebox. You don't need to show the Author name's twice, with and without link. You are linking to a non-existing User wiki page: you can create one, or remove the link, or link to your forum profile instead.

I added a carriage return <br /> between the two linked files, I thought it would be clearer for the 2nd file to be on a line below? You can delete it if you don't like. BTW the second file brings up a Jedi who tries to play mind tricks on me.

One other thing: in "Going further", you show an image of an iso view with dimensions. But the dims' extension lines can only be projected correctly in v0.18.

This is how it will look in v0.17:

FC017_TechDraw_Iso_Dims_01.png (64.81 KiB) Viewed 748 times

Maybe we should add a comment to the effect proper isometric dim extension lines are only implemented in v0.18, otherwise there's going to be a lot of questions.

One specific problem - I could not get the language bar to appear. I put it at the top, the bottom and in between, but it refuses to show up.

It appears only after a wiki admin such as Renato or myself (and a few others) marks a page for translation. Each time there is a new revision to a page, an admin needs to mark the page for translation again. Let me know if you want me to bump you up to wiki admin status. I won't begrudge you if you don't.

[wandererfan]

Great! It looks pretty complete, why not rename it to Basic TechDraw Tutorial now?

Because I'm not an administrator and can't "manage translatable pages"!
Please move it or make me an administrator and I'll do it.

Note added, sample file uploaded - good to go.

wf

[NormandC]

Please move it or make me an administrator and I'll do it.

I was too impatient to put this in the Tutorials page, so I moved it myself

Page now lives at Basic TechDraw Tutorial.

But I also gave you wiki admin status for the next time, as well as translator. You can now rename, delete and mark pages for translation.

[wandererfan]

I was too impatient to put this in the Tutorials page, so I moved it myself

Merci monsieur.

But I also gave you wiki admin status for the next time, as well as translator. You can now rename, delete and mark pages for translation.

Now we're in big trouble. Thanks!

[NormandC]

Tutorial added to Tutorials#Technical_Drawings

And I translated it to French! Thanks for this tutorial Wandererfan.