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#34092-ACAD/Mac R11 Features?
Message #34498
New features in the Release 11 of AutoCAD for the Macintosh (ca. Dec 91): Advanced Modeling Extensions (AME) — AME gives AutoCAD the ability to build and analyze complex three-dimensional solid models. (Requires System 7 and 16Mb of RAM, part of which can be virtual.) New user interface — The…
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#34207-OS/2 2.0 and ACAD
Message #34497
Mike – As Duff says, we haven't made any plans regarding OS/2 2.0. As for the SHELL error, you may want to report it to IBM so that they can investigate it.
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#34232-Page Swapping
Message #34496
Tom – Zowie. A 1.3 Mb drawing file that expands to 25Mb upon start up, and produces a 97Mb swap file after half an hour of work? My goodness, that's a lot of text. The 29 attributes per block are the main source of the overhead, I'm sure. You might…
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#34487-#Acad FACES for 3D Studio
Message #34495
>> different faces on different layers.. get it? Craig, I'm STARTING to understand what your concerns are. I guess I may be falling into the trap of knowing too much about my own product and not communicating properly. The joining and aligning commands are separate command and thus if you…
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#Plt files to EPS format
Message #34494
I am using AUTOCAD 11 and would like to be able to bring my autocad drawings into my desk top publishing package (Page Maker). In the past (prior to version 11) I would plot to a file and then run PPEPSF to change it to EPS format. Now when I…
#33932-Sun vs. DOS
Message #34493
John, So far no one has provided me with any hard numbers on Sun vs Dos. Everyone I have talked to says that Sun is faster but they have only described the differences in general terms. I deem regen time and plotting delays as important. Also overall effiency is very…
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Drawing mgmt Software
Message #34492
There is a new product which has gotten a great deal of positive attention recently. It is CADMANDU (good name!) from Baratek Inc. in Colorado. Phone #303-730-2220. They have a network drawing management system which tracks drawing revisions. It also includes a good collection of utilities integrated into the product,…
#33702-(ADS) Feedback
Message #34491
What does Slick 386 do in an ADS? –Jonathan.
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#33719-Verify integrity of dwgs
Message #34490
Maciek– We are considering providing a utility like you mentioned, to check the integrity of drawing files in a batch mode, as a product. If there is a market for this capability, it could be available this spring. It could come is several flavors: a) just report which files fail…
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#34417-Linked Objects
Message #34488
Brian: Well, that's what AutoCAD on OS/2 did, using OS/2's DDE and Excel, I believe it was. I think you will see the same sort of thing for Windows. Or, you can go out and get a Unix box… C#
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#34377-#Acad FACES for 3D Studio
Message #34487
Angelo: Do you combine meshes from two different layers? If I explode them don't I end up with a bunch of faces? Are these 3 or four sided faces? Once you've aligned the normals, if you don't leave them as closed meshes, I don't believe you will be guaranteed that…
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#34421-AutoCAD-trial basis???
Message #34486
Brian: Whoa… lighten up, dood…. I wasn't offended by what Myron said. I'm more offended if some 'Intergraph' expert gets on here and starts making absurd claims when he should know better. Myron's a businessman… he doesn't know diddly… . All that's required to get rich is luck and perseverence……
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#34336-#ACAD 3rd Party Fonts
Message #34485
Dennis, I failed to mention that this drawing consists of (21) 8.5" x 11" pages – side by side. I use PRPLOT to a HPIII for each page, so you can see how cumbersome this can be. The HP gives me good clarity and the ROMANT resembles a Times Roman…
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#34323-ACAD 3rd Party Fonts
Message #34484
Tony, You're right, I was looking for a less complex font (for performance sake) and the clarity for the drawing to go into a publication. I use PRPLOT to a HPIII for each page. Thanks for the help again…Tom
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#34312-ACAD 3rd Party Fonts
Message #34483
Bill, Thanks for the reply, but Tony T. is right, I want to try to reduce the amount of memory that the font takes up. I guess if I want the clarity of the ROMANT font I will have to suffer with the font degradation to the system…I will check…
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#34472-LISP
Message #34482
Brian – Yes, You can pass XLISP.EXE the name of a .LSP file, and it'll execute it without putting you into the interpreter's read-eval-print loop. It will also automatically execute a file called INIT.LSP if it is found. -TonyT.
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#34461-Learning ACAD
Message #34480
Tom – the best-selling AutoCAD book is "Inside AutoCAD" from New Riders Publishing. Other popular tutorial-style books are "Using AutoCAD" from Que Publishing and "Mastering AutoCAD" from Sybex. You should be able to find all of them in any decent bookstore with a computer section. Most current books cover Releases…
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#34269-Page Swapping
Message #34479
Craig, Thanks for the advice, please see my reply to Tony T. I have to check out the QTEXT variable, that's a new one to me but always worth a look. -Tom
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#34258-Page Swapping
Message #34478
Tony, How've ya been, did you get that 486/50 yet, I just ordered a Compaq 486/50 for use in UPS, I will have to just suffer with this 486/33 here. Tony, I'm lost when it comes to figuring out what all that page swapping tripe means when I do a…
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Open Windows
Message #34477
I have a Sun 386i/250 and a Sparc1 running Acad 10. As I understand it release 11 for SunOS 4.0.2 is the last for the 386i and was shipped in sunview with a patch to be shipped in the future for Open Windows. However, you might want to address a…
#34365-Open Windows
Message #34476
I have a Sun 386i/250 and a Sparc1 running Acad 10. As I understand it release 11 for SunOS 4.0.2 is the last for the 386i and was shipped in sunview with a patch to be shipped in the future for Open Windows. However, you might want to address a…
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#34065-DXFOUT include XREFs?!
Message #34475
Re: What's wrong with Autocad Postcript driver. The main thing is that it must be configured as your plotter (which it isn't) instead of as your printer (which it is). They do not want to have to reconfigure Acad each time they switch from their plotter to their Postscript laser.…
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#34461-Learning ACAD
Message #34474
Tom, I don't recall the exact name, but I saw a comprehensive (thick) manual on R10 and R11 AutoCAD in the B. Dalton's Bookstore yesterday. I recommend it only because my Orlando Airport drawing is on the cover! Brian.
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#34457-LISP
Message #34473
Hey, TonyT! Let me know when you UL that file, it sounds like the ticket! Brian
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#34447-#LISP
Message #34472
I DLed the Xlisp to look at several, several months ago… I don't remember if you can pass the instruction file to the interpreter on the command line or not, similar to the GWBASIC FILE method (or even ACAD DWGNAME ). Brian
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#34409-Stacker??
Message #34471
Heeheeheehee…… I don't need stacker…………….at least for awhile.
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#34438-Blks/Atts. Don't Appear
Message #34468
Mario – I've never heard of this one… as was mentioned earlier (maybe on the VAUS BBS), there *was* a problem with displaying blocks in one of the earlier Release 11s, but it was fixed by 11c2. Any chance you could upload one of these blocks for someone here to…
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#34456-downloading
Message #34467
Bob – You can most easily download the latest version by browsing for it first, rather than trying to download directly from the library prompt. So, at the library prompt you would type "bro moment.lsp", and then press enter. The earlier file will display first. Press enter again, and the…
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#34465-#AME 2.0 Announcement
Message #34466
…Continued… In addition, several AME Release 2 enhancements and features are of specific interest to the production drafter: SOLSECT has been enhanced to convert sections into regions, which can then be used for mass property analysis. SOLPROF has been enhanced to include multiple models during a Hide operation and project…
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#34464-#AME 2.0 Announcement
Message #34465
…Continued… In AME Release 1, AutoCAD customers found an affordable, accessible alternative to traditional modeling tools. Using AME, they created complex 3D models by invoking and manipulating basic solid shapes or "primitives" – e.g., boxes, cones, cylinders – or by extruding and revolving 2D profiles. In addition, they used simple…
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#AME 2.0 Announcement
Message #34464
AUTODESK SHIPS SOLID MODELER AME RELEASE 2 Wealth of New Features for Production Drafters and Application Developers Chicago – February 24, 1992 – A new release of Autodesk's popular Advanced Modeling Extension (AME), the fully integrated solid-modeling option for AutoCAD customers, is now shipping, company officials announced today at the…
#34462-SGI Iris Announcement
Message #34463
…Continued… Through its dealer program, Silicon Graphics will be supplying software that allows AutoCAD customers to take advantage of the advanced 3D capabilities of IRIS Indigo. The software provides real-time pan and zoom of large drawings, an interactive 3D shaded viewer, a visual configuration manager for choosing new colors on…
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#SGI Iris Announcement
Message #34462
AUTODESK SHIPS AutoCAD RELEASE 11 FOR IRIS Indigo, SILICON GRAPHICS' RISC PC Chicago – February 24, 1992 – AutoCAD, the computer industry's most popular computer-aided design (CAD) software, is now available for Silicon Graphics Inc.'s IRIS Indigo computers, Autodesk announced today at the National Design Engineering Show. The new product…
#Learning ACAD
Message #34461
Could anyone recommend a good after market manual that I could buy that would help my in learning ACAD. I work for a village near Chicago, and we are using Version 10. I was working with Anvil 1000 for four years privious to starting work here. I have seen several…
ALR & ACAD386 Problem ??
Message #34460
I am having a problem running Acad386 on a ALR Business Veisa. With a clean installation, the program will not load giving an instruction exception and an address. The only way the program will load is to install QEMM (version 6.01) and then the program will load. The only problem…
SYMBOL SETS
Message #34459
Looking for a company that offers a decent variety of symbol libraries. I am particularly interested in electrical/electronic and hydralic symbol sets. Thanks to all who can help. David
dos5
Message #34458
Once again my questions have been answered quickly. I thank you very much, I will try this soon. It's really incredible how I get answers to my questions much faster this way, as opposed to trying to track down my support people. Once again, many thanks! Dwayne
#34439-#LISP
Message #34457
Dan – Ahhhh yes. XLISP 2.0 is a relatively more-robust subset of Common LISP, which is somewhat different from the LISP dialects that earlier versions of XLISP (and AutoLISP) are based on. For example, you won't find (while), (foreach) or (repeat) in XLISP, but you will find (do), (dolist), and…
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#downloading
Message #34456
I'm trying to download a file "moment.lsp" from Lib. #2. There are two files named "moment.lsp" in that library and I can't seem to get the latest one. Could you tell me how to select the right one for downloading? Thand you. Bob
#34449-SUN / ADS
Message #34455
Siegemund – We're edging toward use of the Sun's ANSI C compiler ourselves, but even if we don't end up using it for Release 12, we should be able to supply an alternate version of the ads.a library that uses it. I'll spread the word in-house that this is needed.
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#34383-AutoCAD-trial basis???
Message #34454
Myron – Yes, that's right. But the Mac permits us to be more creative with the menus (using icons rather than text), so a Mac-specific version of the menu is provided.
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#34237-#HP DesignJet Plotter
Message #34453
Bill – Many of us have problems with network traffic, because AutoCAD keeps the temporary working database file in the same place as the .DWG file you're editing. It does this to ensure that you don't run out of disk space (e.g, if it were to place the workspace files…
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#34363-^u in LISP?
Message #34451
Mark – Well, that's not a valid argument to (command). It looks like the programmer was trying to "Undo" the first leader segment, in which case, you should replace that expression with this one: (command ".dim" "lea" from to "u") -TonyT.
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#SUN / ADS
Message #34449
Duff – If the ADS library for SUN Sparcstation doesn't work with the MetaWare Compiler, what about the SUN C 1.1 ANSI C Compiler? Are the libraries of the latter compatible to the ads library? And if this isn't so, is there any ANSI Compiler for AutoCAD on SUN Sparcstation?…
#34394-Rel 12
Message #34448
Mike – It's not a flame, its just a "heated discussion" – that's all. I'm not getting hostile with Peter or anyone else, on this subject, I just happen to have a difference of opinion with the visretain stuff. I think it stinks ande it makes XREFS into a real…
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#34372-#LISP
Message #34447
Brian – I've no feathers to ruffle . I've created plenty of DOS applications with XLISP. If you mean, can they "stand alone" without the XLISP interpreter, no they can't, but I can still use them anytime I want at a DOS prompt. Lisp Compilers are rather expensive, or at…
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#34425-Film Recorders
Message #34446
Thanks, Dave, I'll be flinging shortly. Brian.
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#34437-#Film Recorders
Message #34445
Thanks, David. I'll dig around for my September issue. And I'll also look into buying Hijaak, which seems to be the most well-rounded program of its type. Brian Boatwright
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#34430-Film Recorders
Message #34444
Thanks, Kevin. I'll investigate a little further — I had heard good reports about Hijaak, too. Brian.
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#34265-Is there an AC for OS/2
Message #34443
AutoCAD release 10 is currently available for OS/2 1.x. No announcement has been made for support on this OS past release 10. -Mike
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