"Gunner Asch" wrote in message
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Thats exactly why I retain a nice big drawing board behind me as I
type. And I have all sorts of Cad/Cam programs on hand. While
Cad/cam may be cooler and High Techy!...I have great..great
difficulty
in efficently using any of them to design something. Which I can
do
quickly and easily using the drafting table. Yah..I know..Im an
anachronism....shrug

And I do love computers...so this is..... odd.....

Gunner

I settled on entering the shape quickly and crudely in an offset
position, similar to a pencil sketch but being sure that a closed
outline really did close, and then individually moving each line
segment or corner to the proper location. The advantage is that if I
was moving say the vertical end of a rectangle in the X direction,
inadvertent Y mouse motion had no effect. It did require paying
attention to the grid and snap-to settings and care in making group
selections.

jsw