CADpad Grid

CADpad Grid

CADpad Grid

The CADpad grid allows for defining a surface for input from a digitizer to "drive" an application.  Clicks in this defined area can result in RevWorks "messages" (that emulate the click of any of the buttons on the RevWorks toolbar); emulation of keyboard stokes; and MS Windows messages.  

The default CADpad is a set of the RevWorks toolbar buttons, as below:


Non default layouts or even buttons that perform other functions can be created and used, but it is not recommended without assistance from Revware.  A second CADpad layout has been delivered with the 7.1 installer, named 'defaults2.cp' in the main folder (defaults to ProgramFiles\Revware\RevWorks\).  The default CADpad layout above is 'defaults1.cp'. 

Rename 'defaults2.cp' to 'defaults.cp' and restart RevWorks to switch to the following layout:



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