What do you use Jogged and Tolerance Buttons for?What is the difference between relative and Absolute coordinates?What is the Difference between Corner and Slide Polygon?

Your questions are simple enough to be answered using Draftsight Help or the Getting Started Guide.  Have you looked at either?The difference between Absolute and Relative coordinate system is mentioned on pages 45 and 46 of the Guide.Tolerances are mentioned on page 176 of the Guide.A jogged dimension is practically self-explanatory.By the way, there are also hundreds of YouTube videos about Drfatsight commands.  Here is a link to one about the Polygon command.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zlMmeyCKQSwYou may also want to avail yourself of the two part Tips, Tricks and Videos Master Series Flipbook found at the Drfatsight Learning Resources.http://www.3ds.com/products-services/draftsight/resource-center/tips-tricks/Dassault has gone out of its way to provide its users with a wealth of information on how to use its products.  I suggest you take full advantage of the content.




John Connor2013-08-16 12:35:19

Thank you, I have already looked in the getting started guide and the help option. The getting Started guide does not tell you when you are suppose to use it to benefit you. I guess I used the wrong questions. Instead knowing the difference, I meant how do you use those buttons? When would you use them when drawing in draftsight?I appreciate the videos on youtube. I will look there for more information, but since my questions were so minute I did not think youtube had the answer.

You want to know "when to use" each command?  I'd have to take a week off from my full time job just to write the first chapter.What kind of drawings are you creating?Do you have any kind of drafting background at all?Are you a student?
John Connor2013-08-16 16:18:16

Designs for packaging and machine parts. About 1-2 years of experience of AutoCAD. Student.I understand how you are suppose to use each of the buttons, but I do not know what the buttons affect in the drawing. Can you or anyone else explain that?

The best way to find out is through trial and error.  Start a new drawing and experiment.  You won't harm anything because in the end you can close the drawing without saving it.  The upside is you'll gain real practical experience and see all the options available to you and test each one.And if you have one to two years of experience using AutoCAD then you should already be familiar with these commands (or their equivalents).  There isn't much to be found in Draftsight that isn't or hasn't been included in AutoCAD.How does one get to Carnagie hall?  Practice, practice, practice.
John Connor2013-08-16 17:34:25

"Jog lines are used to represent a dimension value that does not display the actual measurement in a linear dimension. Typically, the actual measurement value of the dimension is smaller than the displayed value."Do you know what a jogged dimension looks like?What types of tolerances do you normally deal with?  Symmetrical? Deviation?  Limits?  Basic?  Other?  Each is depicted differently.
John Connor2013-08-16 16:56:09

Corner and Slide Polygon?That's supposed to be Side.One is inscribed within a circle while the other is circumscribed about a circle.  That's the difference.  I won't tell you which is which.  You have to find out for yourself so in the future when you use the command you will know which option to select given the situation you find yourself in.By the way, both options (inscribed and circumscribed) are available in AutoCAD.Question: Why would coordinate systems be of any use to you in packaging and machine parts?  I can understand the use of polygons, tolerances and even jogged dimensions by not coordinates. 


John Connor2013-08-16 17:39:34