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How to I make a Square Wall Without Gap?
Basically two ways to handle it:
- Don't start in a corner, start in the middle of a side length. As long as the starting and ending point is the same (as well as the angle of the two segments) it will meet up seamlessly.
- Turn it into a polygon. Draw it as normal, but don't do the final connecting segment. The use Path to Poly [CLOSEPATH] on the wall you just drew.
This is basically the way to handle this when you try to draw a closed shape with a line-type drawing tool, being city wall or dungeon room.
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Problem with menu after reinstall
Have you tried running the latest update (Update 28) available from your registration page? Even if your CC3+ install is already at 3.98, the update fixes up other files in addition to the core program files, and can often fix weird issues like this. It is usually a good idea to install it as a last step after installing all add-ons (except the free monthly symbol sets, they should be the very last)
If that doesn't work, I recommend getting in contact with tech support, also available from your registration page.
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Can someone explain how I can make my map print on the entire page?
Yea, there is actually a white polygon around most maps by default, on the SCREEN sheet, it is used to hide stuff that might be sticking outside the map border, since a drawing is technically borderless. But the printer will still see that as a valid area to include int he printing.
What you can do to avoid it is to print just the 'active window' instead of 'everything'. Before doing that, simply zoom in to your map, and maybe resize the CC3+ window accordingly so that the view only shows your actual map, nothing more. The best way do do this is to first use the Zoom Window command to define a tight rectangle around your map, and then resize the window afterwards, because CC3+ will remember the zoom you defined and always fit that part inside the window. Also remember, CC3+ do have the map in a separate inner document window, you can resize that instead of the main CC3+ window.
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Can someone explain how I can make my map print on the entire page?
If you just want to fill the page, simply use the "fit to page" option in the print dialog, no need messing with precise scaling. CC3+ should fill whatever paper size your printer driver reports it is using.
For proper scaled maps, yes, just use 1" paper scale = 5' drawing distance. All you need to do to make that work properly is when making the map, treat the numbers you specify the map size in in the wizard as feet, and just work with the map in real scale, i.e. when a distance should be 5', Info -> distance should show that thing to be 5'.
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Color matching in CA128?
Seems like that fill is set up with a darker fill than those used in the map.
There are a couple of ways to fix it:
1- Fixing it in-map:
- Draw the entity
- Unlock groups ("Locked" button in the very bottom right of the UI)
- Hit Change Properties
- Right click in map, pick More -> Fill Style
- Right click to bring up the fill style dialog, pick the bitmap file tab
- Select CA101_Parchment from the dropdown, make sure the radio button for "this is the currently selected fill style" is enabled, and hit ok
- Hit D for do it
- In the Change properties dialog, set fill style to CA128_Parchment A Light and hit ok
- Lock groups again.
(Edit. Forget the second way I just typed for now. Seems like there is something else happening when the tool is used. Investigating.)
Note that the fills here are all hatch styles, meaning they are vector entities, so map performance will not be much better compared to just using symbols, but it will certainly be easier to map larger regions.





