Qcad Ebook
Waldemar Fischer
In the previous operation of www.drystacked.com and www.learnqcad.com, we had offered a Qcad training CD. Since then the CD has been dropped and the associated videos were put up on YouTube. The associated Qcad house plan videos and drawing files were never included on YouTube for various reasons.
Video-2 (33:15) Learn to practice manipulating the download drawings before creating your own drawings. Also includes practice moving wall segments, measurement rounding errors, extending dimensions vs shortening dimensions to achieve 1/2-block wall segments. Also addresses mortaring first block row, intersecting lines vs corner selections, and correcting dimension errors.
Video-3 ( 20:00) Adjust door and window locations, determine rebar cell locations, adjust and or fix wall segment dimensions, application of the spread sheet tables in the book (Appendix-A), creating additional required drawings from an original drawing.
These videos are unique to Qcad users because of the large scale differences between the house-plans drawings and the real world house dimensions. Once you learn how to manage these size differences, then house plans become much easier to create and edit.
There are lots of YT tutorials which can serve as adjunct content, but I'm talking about something like in the "old days" (get off my lawn, LOL) when 400+ page books covered every single feature and capability of software, stepping through every option of every one. I remember learning CorelDRAW that way decades ago. All I've found for Photo so far is shorter form content (i.e., less than 20 minutes generally).
Serif stopped producing their hard cover books prior to 2.0. The best we can do is do internet searches. I've located a couple of resources with a quick search, on Amazon. The first is someone selling one of Serif's books, however since the books are scarce, it is quite pricey, double what it originally sold for.
Do you know if these books are more of "here's a photo and we'll edit it" or a feature-by-feature complete reference (with examples)? It appears the former rather than the latter, but just looking at Amazon reviews it's a little difficult to tell.
They're both available at a reasonable price in some format or another (physical used, Kindle, etc.). Kindle is better for me than video but still not nearly as good as a physical paper book. I'd actually prefer a PDF over Kindle if it came to that choice.
Now that I've had a chance to review those links, the last three look most interesting (I already have Robin Whalley's slightly more in-depth Photo ebook). However, they appear to be project-based tutorial type books and fairly basic.
I'd really like to find a definitive, deep and complete description of every tool, button, gesture and dialog in the program, as it were. Maybe done in menu and / or toolbar order? Lots of descriptive text with just enough examples (if at all) to clarify the text. I'm not too interested in "let's add text with a glow to this image", but rather something kind of like what used to be shipped (e.g.) with programming tools: A document of every function, all parameters, precise authoritative descriptions and a short example. I.e., "this does that when you move this slider to the right".
This reminds me to another printed book about image editing respectively developing (not: composing, masking). I bought this edition (640 pages) many years ago because of its detailed description of the entire process, while the understanding is more or less independent from a specific app. (accordingly the book mentions only a few certain apps for certain sections, years before APhoto came up). I still wonder why this appears never have to been translated.
@v_kyr Bought the book about Affinity Photo V2 last night, book and e-book.
For the macro's there is no better info than I already had. Thank you for your hint. Couldn't find a V1, but that woun't be a problem I guess.
A book is great. Sitting in the garden and reading is far more pleasing than staring at a screen.
The macro's still are a nasty thing to work with. Heard someone say one can use a macro in a macro. Not found that workaround yet, but it may be a solution to adding a watermark to different file sizes with one click.
Time will tell.
Thank you once more.
Regards.
The macro's still are a nasty thing to work with. Heard someone say one can use a macro in a macro. Not found that workaround yet, but it may be a solution to adding a watermark to different file sizes with one click.
Watermarking? - Good luck, since APh Macros don't handle any document size/orientation/place dynamically etc. they are not of much helpful use here for such tasks. You better deal with some third party tool scripting here by using ImageMagick or some Python scripts for such tasks.
However, I once somewhere showed in a (who knows where that is deeply hidden) forum thread, how to record reusable text in APh macros, but that has also it's statically limitations (no dynamic doc handling) to deal with.
Bought the book about Affinity Photo V2 last night, book and e-book.
For the macro's there is no better info than I already had. Thank you for your hint. Couldn't find a V1, but that woun't be a problem I guess.
A book is great. Sitting in the garden and reading is far more pleasing than staring at a screen.