I'm a civil/struct. design engineer.
I use Excel's Drawing Tools (View-Toolbars-Drawing) to illustrate the
calculations and make sketches. I'm convinced that making sketches
with calc's is very important. When I first started making sketches it
took quite a time, but with practice it became much faster. Now it
takes the same time as making a sketch manually. There are a lot of
time saving tricks in Excel Drawing – which could be mastered with
practice. I need some adjustments of Drawing Tools for my purposes…
but I do not know how to do it. Some of these are:
1- scaling; is there a way to make a drawing to scale?
2- printing; when printing circles become elipses;
3- is there a good book (or on the Web) on making drawings with Excel?
4- charting; is it associated with Drawing Tools and how can I use it
for drafting?
5- is there a Group dedicated to drafting on Excel?  

Any ideas, suggestions, comments….?

Simon Goykhman,
Toronto
goykhman@rogers.com