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#Novell and ACAD 11
Message #21871
David, I stand corrected, you can delete it, but Exe is one of those flags one must use with extreme caution. It's great if you're trying to prevent someone from altering or copying a EXE or COM file, but it cannot be reversed. Also, if the files are not written…
#AutoCad Rel 11 Config
Message #21870
I am working with a customer using AutoCad 386 Relsome problems getting the program and hardware to work together. Tryng to get help from the AutoCad dealer has been of no value. The problem is simple. The user has a requirement to edit, hopefully infrequently, very large drawing files. The…
Angelo – Well, I wouldn't believe any cliams of being able to convert LISP to ADS thru a one-step black-box contraption. It just isn't possible. Some of the fundamental properties of interpreted LISP make it virtually impossible: 1. Dynamic binding (C++ is just becoming capable of "late binding"). 2. Dynamic…
Ashade hangup
Message #21868
Has anyone run into this before: I create a 3d model in ACAD, load the Autoshade routines in Autolisp, name and place cameras and lights, run the SCENE routine – name it, choose camera and lights and place the clapper. Then I create the filmroll file, end out of the…
What part of the Norton Utilities would you want to use? STACKER converts the HD into a "larger" volume, so any utility reading sectors via DOS function calls (as both DOS 5.0 and NU do), should work just fine. Brad's been hogging the AST Notebook, so he'll have to answer…
To do it via interpretation of the ACAD DB is tediously slow, plus there is no good way to inform ACAD of visual representation changes without having ACAD do them itself. Our integer transformations are faster than FP equivalents would be, BTW. So your approach, while speeding things up, would…
Why? Do you feel slighted because you haven't written the editorials? Actually, your Generic CADD articles are well written and quite informative, but I feel (as an advertiser) that it's counter-productive to devote a lot of space to a product my products don't support. Jake
It just means that it is soon becoming time for yet another Panacea T-shirt… 🙂 Jake
Actually, doesn't Levinson talk about 13 being the magic number for someone to follow up on something? Jake
You will always get a better rate for a long-term committment. That's what the 6x, 12x, or even 24x rate quotes on the rate card are all about. The frequency is for a one-year term. The more you advertise during a given 12 month period the lower your rate per…
We have found that in R11c2 w/AME especially, that this type of FILES error as well as the "to many FILES open" error is eliminated if we use "FILES=55". Hope this helps. Regards, Malcolm
I Wish I Could Jump
Message #21856
Brad: I realize asking whether the Windows version of ACAD is intentionally hobbled is like asking whether you've stopped beating your wife yet. Sorry if the remark came off wrong. I talked to another CAD developer who explained to me that, in fact, Windows does limit large memory model programs.…
Tom – I have to beg to differ with one of your points: Xwindows performance. It sucks, it's a dog with fleas, and unless it has the power of a state of the art RISC cpu behind it, it's not an option as far as I'm concerned. -TonyT.
Steven – Yes, AutoCAD locates them by examining screen vectors, so selecting an object by specifying a point, requires that there be screen vectors near the point. -TonyT.
Dennis – 'scuse me for jumping in in the middle of this… are you looking for DCA templates? I gots a slew of them, certainly for Release 10 and, I think, for Release 11 too. They came with the software; there's the standard overlay and underlays for Landscape and Civil.…
Oh. Well, I was close… Dave
David – Thanks much for the info.
Scanners, Etc
Message #21849
Need to know the easiest most economical way to scan 8.5×11 velums of details into a acad file so I can edit it. Which software, etc. would an hp inkjet work as a printer? Thanks for your help. Steve
Scanners,ETC
Message #21848
I have a large volume of 8.5×11 details on velum and I would like to know the best economical way to scan these into acad (10) edit and then print them. What scanner, software and printer aree up to the task without costing a fortune? Would a HP inkjet do…
Tony, do you really mean that the object must be "on screen" or are you refering to its existance in the integer (redraw) database that ACAD produces?
Thanks a lot; that was just the answer I was hoping for! One more quesiton: When plotting on film, is it possible to erase lines, with, say, an electric eraser? Or is it as dificult as with laser plotters?
Sure. The AutoCAD/MicroStation Seminar is being held tomorrow (Tuesday, 26 November) at Infomax Computers, downtown Vancouver. There are two sessions, one at 9:00 am and one at 1:00 pm. Rob Melnyk will demo the features of MicroStation, I'll demo the features of AutoCAD. He'll talk about peacefull coexistance (they have…
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#STACKER COMPRESSION
Message #21843
Greg: Well, I'm glad that you don't have any negative feedback. I think your skepticism is warranted; a friend of mine installed DoubleDisk on his system and has had to reformat and reload everything twice so far (geez, you'd think he'd learn). Jeff Hester
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#STACKER COMPRESSION
Message #21842
Larry: Stacker v2.0 comes with a custom version of Norton Speed Disk for optimizing your HD. The install routine automatically performs the first optimization after compressing existing files. What programs do you know of that require disabling the cache? Jeff Hester
HP DeskJet 500 C
Message #21840
Is there a AutoCAD Ver 11 ADI driver for a HP DeskJet 500 C printer? Where can I get it? How much does it cost?
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#Cadalyst or Cadence??
Message #21839
Darn, that doesn't give me much incentive to keep writing.
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#Graphic Card Review
Message #21838
Ken… I disagree, speed tests are important. I agree that if you are only doing a series of commands and timing them overall, that does not show much. But if your benchmark breaks down the test by entity type, % of screen size, and a good curve on the results…
Joshua: Your best investment on an AutoCAD accelerator for the Macintosh would be a clone 483-33 sitting next to your Mac. After that, I would suggest that you get the Mac with the fastest clock speed (like a Quadra 700) to lower the regen times. A Radius QuickCAD will fix…
David, Instead of a merger would the ability to group these two layers together have any benefit? BillG[CM]
printcap
Message #21835
On looking at the printcap files you sent me, I noticed that the first listing, the one with ALL lines commented out, you have TWO :ms lines. Is either one ok ?Thanks again I'll try to get round to trying them out today
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11 back to 10
Message #21834
Thank you and the rest who replied to my inquiry. Tom
Bonzai, I always try and have my Ducks in a row before I make a suggestion. If someone (like certain engineers around here) tries to answer with a simple response (because they have not given the matter much thought) I usually hit them with a 10 pound (frozen) Duck! (ever…
Peter, I think we have all tried at least once to rename a current layer the same as an existing one. I think that is why the best place to implement the feature would be in the place people try it first! I do little work with it but release…
Thanks Robert. We'll try everything. Charles
Antonio, First off, let me say, I like your name (if my new baby was a boy, his name would have been Antonio, but her name is Aria Leanna). Someone else was just recently asking on LEAP about the same think (kind'a). That person wanted to model and estimate the…
Tony, Ah Ha! or maybe oh! Good thing I wrote my own in that case. Thanks for the clarification Tony, it helps a great deal. As and when… hsm
You folks have had a marketing plan for the XENIX version of AutoCad designed from the ground up to ensure failure. If you SCO UNIX marketing plan is the same, you've got no chance to make any money on it, and your “poor sales'' complaint will be a self fulfilling…
Jerry, I was thinking of doing the same. Am I going crazy or what (this goes under the heading of "Are all those Hallucinogenics I did as a young man, comming back to haunt me? )? Don't I remember someone marketing a LISP to ADS converter? … I think a…
Bill, Thanks for the info on Mac R11. Regards, Allan.
Thanks for info on Mac R11. Regards, Allan.
Lansing, Thanks for info on Mac 11. Regards, Allan
Bill, I switched to Xenix shortly after Autodesk released a version ported for it and I've become known since as the resident Xenix "evangelist" but that has not had any influence at all on Autodesk' decisions. I've jumped on each new release since version 2.5 just as soon as each…
Dennis, Thanks for your reply. I know relatively little about the plotters current configuration. It's connected to a 386 Clone through a serial port. It's previous use has been through a UNIX operating system which is installed on a 20 Meg partition of the hard drive, but I'm sure that…
Mark, From Xenix if I do a "doscp" (DOS copy) to send a Xenix ASCII file to a DOS box, Xenix adds "^M" for each . When I receive an ASCII file with all of those messy ^M's, they don't make any difference to Xenix but I use a global…
Thanks Dave I tried disabling Stealth no difference I will try page frames. I am not using an ADI driver. ANy other Ideas????? Help? Richard
The math coprocessor is built into a 486, so No, it doesn't need one. -TonyT.
#DesignJet
Message #21816
Dennis – One of my clients has a DesignJet on order. They're going to let me beat on it a little, and I'll be glad to let you know if anything shakes loose. -TonyT.
Marco – Several possiblities. First, you could have the view twisted to some value other than 0.0. If so, then just follow the instructions Dieter gave you, and that'll fix it. Second, you could have WBLOCK'd the drawing while the UCS was not set to the WCS, in which case…
Peter: Sorry about that. I loose track of messages sometimes. Yes, the DesignJet supports screened lines – in 10% increments. Evan
Craig: I recommend you ask me these questions on the LEAP forum, so I can get our message traffic up. Seriously, I does like inkjets a lot. Evan
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