Corel comes with a preset list of Scales. There is one spot to create a custom scale. I use Corel to do permit drawings about 40% of the time, and 1" = 10', 1" = 20', 1" = 100', ... are VERY common permit site plan scales. Corel does not have them in the list of defaults. Is there a way to customize the drop down 'Typical Scales' list?
Alright Eskimo... I am HUGELY intrigued...!
Any chance you know of a straightforward tutorial that will show me how to...
► Copy the syntax (of the macros you uploaded) to do a COMPLETE set of macros of all the standard scales
And...
► Create a toolbar with those same macros
This would make life so much easier my friend...! (Maybe even get me Employee of the Month, $100, and special parking for a month. Aw yeah baby!)
I hate even asking, but I don't want to screw up my environment (again) forcing a factory reset. Grrrrr.
Thanks Eskimo...!
What kind of permit drawings are you talking about? We do sign permit drawings all the time and never use scale.
Those are two separate things, and we can engage them - to some extent - separately.
One part is understanding how to install/create/edit/run the VBA code. Assuming that you already have VBA working in CorelDRAW, that part doesn't really mess with your workspace.
Creating the toolbar is really a separate thing, and that is all done using CorelDRAW's own workspace customization capabilities. A subroutine in the VBA macro can be a "Command" in CorelDRAW. Adding it to a toolbar or menu is done in the same way one could add any of the zillion or so Commands that are already available in Options>Workspace>Customization>Commands.
As far as not messing up your environment, and having to lose all customization to an "F8 on startup" reset is concerned - it's a really good idea to become familiar with the process of creating a workspace from another workspace, and getting comfortable with the idea of switching between workspaces. A "throwaway" workspace is a great place to practice with the workspace customization stuff. If you don't like the way things are going, then throw the workspace away. If you get a toolbar set up just the way you like, then you can export that toolbar and then import it into another workspace.
A user can mess up a workspace through careless tinkering, but I suspect that CorelDRAW can get mysterious workspace ailments without any intentional tinkering.
As a precaution, I have a FreeFileSync batch job that "mirrors" my CorelDRAW workspace folders. Every time it changes or deletes a file from the mirror, it saves the old copy in a specified location with a time stamp appended to the filename. I have not had to resort to that, but it gives me the ability to "turn back time" if I were ever find that something had gone wrong.
To get things started - do you have VBA working in your CorelDRAW installation?
If you open the Macro Manager, do you see "Visual Basic for Applications" available?
In US? Every sign permit I've ever done requires "to-scale" drawings. What part of the country are you getting permits? Give me your latest county/city you got a permit from. I'm curious why all the ones I've done require it.