This is an archive of CompuServe forum messages from 1985 to 1995, as saved in transcripts by John Foust.
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The company I work for is Airgrove Investments Limited in which I am the Computer Consultant in charge of the company. The division I work for is called James Lundy, computer consultant. There is no other divisions. At the present time I use AUTOCAD v11 Through Seneca College as a…
Michael – Autodesk has not yet made a decision concerning an AutoCAD update for OS/2 2.0.
Tom – You've got a 25+ megabyte swap file there, buddy! I don't know if its the font, or not, but if you can make some of the attributes hidden, or use ROMANS for editing, and ROMANT for plotting, that might help. Essentially, you've got a drawing that's probably generating…
Check your mail. You'll find a large ZIP file with the drawing, the script, and a BAT file. We don't really use any benchmarks in-house for our DLDs, as I have oft mentioned. Jake
Ricki, My understanding is that RapidCAD is basically a 486DX chip that fits in a 386 socket. If that's so, why is it being marketed solely as a CAD enhancement solution? Seems to me that any PC application could benefit from a performance boost, even those without FP requirements. Jake
Oliver, There is _currently_ no real performance difference in display list operations between the real and protected mode DLDs. However, memory management has improved in the protected mode version, so overall AutoCAD performance should also improve. We will be releasing our Turbo DLD386 software shortly however, which will provide a…
Steve, Call Diamond at 408-736-2000 to get a free update/fix to the problem you're experiencing. Jake
The problem you mention was a glitch that was immediately fixed. Get an updated DLD386-VGA driver from Diamond at 408-736-2000. As far as Gateway having switched to the ATI Ultra on some of their systems, that's certainly true. It unfortunately does not ship with our DLD software (but you can…
helps evaluate software for your company I can also put you directly in contact with our major accounts person if you would like to personally evaluate a copy of Generic CADD for use by your staff who are not using AutoCAD. If you would rather I leave you alone, and…
Jim (James), Forgive me if this sounds like a sales pitch. I'm not in sales, I'm in support. If I was in sales I could probably manage to make this more subtle and/or compelling. I loved your message re proper time to evaluate programs (re wcedit) in the AutoCAD forum.…
Jake, I too like the SpeedSTAR card. Out of curiosity, what is your opinion of their new Stealth VRAM card?
In addition to the Student version of AutoCAD I would suggest Generic CADD 6.0 (list price $495, sold in places like Egghead and Software etc. for a significant discount). We also offer a 60 day money back satisfaction warranty. The prior version won the PC Mag editors choice for best…
Brian, In all fairness I must point out that AutoCAD was smart enough to "BUY" a significant portion of that 70% when they bought Generic Software almost three years ago. (Generic CADD has about 20-25% of the market when figured on a basis of # of users, the only fair…
Myron, I was going to tell you all about Generic CADD for the Macintosh, and our 60 day satisfaction warranty, but Malcolm beat me to it… So, I'll just say… "what he said" and leave it pretty much at that. OH yeah, if you have Questions about Generic CADD, either…
Stephen – digitizer not responding? Ah, God bless Summagraphics! In spite of being the most widely used and emulated graphics tablet on the market, Summas are incapable of returning to digitizer mode after you've used their mouse emulator mode in another program. This may sound like I'm yanking your chain…
Craig: More accurately, the form is filed at the time the license is transferred. Later, the new owner can send in the #1 floppy for an update. Evan
The objection is not related to disk space; on a network drive, there should be plenty. However, when more than one user is working on drawing files in the same directory, any files that have ANY possibility, no matter how remote, of having the same names is no good at…
John, Panacea's PanaRender driver works well with my ET4000 based board, you may have to call to find the proper setup, depending on manufacturer.
Ron- my huge Tapcis age file strikes again…. ————— Tony- When I looked at the DesignJet, I found two problems that I wasn't able to find a way around at the time, and without a solution, the Designjet won't work for us. I'm sure there's a solution, though, so perhaps…
Gee, Ron- Seems like you ran into the same problem I did when we were scouting out the DesignJet. We haven't purchaced one yet, partly due to that problem, partly due to a convincing enough need (read: lower than normal plotting load). Same story as your's: Dealer couldn't explain the…
peter, nothing is wrong with the PS driver that a substantial re-write wouldn't cure. Althought, the PS langauge supports polyline-like closed shapes, ACAD processes them as discontinuous line segments willy-nilly!
#Summagraphics tablet
Message #34234
Why does my digitizer not work the first time I go into a drawing? I have to go out then back in again? Have you ever heard of this?
#ACAD 3rd Party Fonts
Message #34233
All, I am looking for a third party ACAD developer that offers better looking ACAD fonts (comparable to ROMANT) but with less of a byte count per font file. I beleive ROMANT is around 4.8K and that really ups my drawing file size. I tried changing my Standard font from…
#Page Swapping
Message #34232
Can anyone out there help me with the optimum Setup Configuration for my PC that is running ACAD 11c2…I have an Everex 486/33, 16 meg Ram, 1.2 Gig HD and running under MSDOS 5.0. My main problem is Excessive Page Swapping….I'm lost when it comes to fine tuning AutoCad for…
Ken, Would you send a qualification form to: Tom Torre United Parcel Service 33 Sewanois Avenue Lincoln Park, NJ 07035-1709 I am always interested in finding new AutoCad Publications that will help with new products and tips for my staff… Thanks…Tom
#autocad novice
Message #34230
I wanted to thank you for your message of encouragement in installing AutoCad on my computer. Yes it was relatively easy and I had little trouble completing it. I have to say, that my original reason for purchasing the program was to learn application programs that could be run through…
#HP DesignJet Plotter
Message #34229
We recently purchased a new HP DesignJet Ink Jet plotter for a new alliance. We were most impressed with the sample and demo plots, and considering the purchase price, it appeared to be our best option. However, the plotted output from AutoCAD using the HPGL2 drivers that were shipped with…
Rel 12
Message #34228
Peter, Congrats doood, welcome aboard. Dennis (OMF)
Malcolm, Heck, I've had my travel agent watching for deals to Dallas since the first of the year. Now I've got to go trolling for roomates to help offset the cost of attending. I'm looking forward to it. Dennis
I was thinking of warning Malcom that I'd pay him a personal visit to complain about VISRETAIN, if that's what it takes. Heck, if it helped, it'd be more than worth the 2+ hour round trip! Perhaps I can convince Malcom to come to the SFAUG's demo of WinACAD, and…
larry Thanks for the answer. Someone else suggested the same thing and it worked. jdm
Craig – That's exactly how it works right now. The AutoCAD SCALE command will by default, use an implied "Reference length" of 1.0, meaning that the distance from the basepoint to the cursor _IS_ the scale factor. You can see that distance and have it updated dynamically, by toggling your…
Larry, Pardon my curiosity, but why do you need to remove UMB from the config.sys file? Mark Kurdi Sheridan College
#AutoCAD + DOS 5 = REBOOT
Message #34219
Mike, We have a several labs running AutoCAD, and one of them is an AST 386/33Mhz lab. Out of the seventeen computers in the room, two of them occasionally 'Hang' when exiting AutoCAD R11/386C2. Our machines use ATI VGA Wonder cards as well. Mark Kurdi Sheridan College (ATC)
Graphic Card suggestion
Message #34218
I currently have a 386sx 16mhz computer running Autocad. Would like to get a video accelerator card like the ATI Ultra or the Hercules graphic Station Gold. Any suggestions would be most welcome. I have a Seiko Instruments 1440 monitor that I run at 800 x 600 interlaced. I also…
Mark – No, there's no way to have text that dynamically responds to changes in plotting scale. And, its rather difficult to do. If for example, your plotting scale were to change drastically from a large scale to a smaller one, then the text would have to become larger. And,…
Brian – Feb 11. Main feature was 486-33s. It was a two part review on AutoCAD utilities. David Cohn did the intro and the first part on drawing viewers and I did the part on *AutoCAD* text editors. No QEdit, Brief, Norton, WP Office Editor… it was strictly about AutoCAD-specific…
Brad – so *that's* where Jan Yoder went! I haven't noticed his smiling ASCII around here lately. Glad you had a good time, glad you're back! Dave
Raymond: "You can use AutoCAD's LaserJet drivers for monochrome output to the 500c. Or Insight Development (415-652-4115) sells a product called DeskPlotter — "Turns your printer into a plotter" — that converts an HPGL file into PCL, with color. $99" Carl Bethea, 1992" There is also a laserjet/deskjet driver in…
Robert – You can get a LISP interpreter (and compiler I believe) for DOS and for Windows. You can also download David Betz's XLISP 2.0, from the AIEXPERT forum here on CompuServe (GO AIEXPERT). They also have a LISP section there complete with resident hard-core Common LISP and SCHEME freaks.…
Thomas – Something is causing the LOADING of ACAD.LSP to be terminated. It can also be a symbol conflict as well, where you are using the name that is assigned to one of the three routines somewhere else. If the file is not too large, and not proprietary, post it…
Mark – Before I get deluged for *BAD* information, the INSERT POINTS of text strings which are frozen before SCALE do not change. But the position of the drawing entities changes with relation to the text strings, so you will still have to MOVE them back to their original orientation…
Thank you David. I have downloaded the ADSZTC.zip file in the ADS conference but it only mentions Phar-Lap support and not ZTC's own DOSX 32 bit dos extender. If that ADS file does support the DOSX, which I haven't tried, then all is well. I'll give it a try, but…
#OS/2 2.0 and ACAD
Message #34207
Carl, I have run several programs that use Pharlap 4.0 under OS/2 2.0 6.177 without any problems. Do you know if there is a planned OS/2 2.0 update of AutoCAD for OS/2 ? I have the release 10 version for OS/2 1.X, but there is a bug trying to execute…
At ASG we use several editors, depends on the person's preference. Brief and Norton are used by several programmers. My personal choice is Multi-Edit. Fred
Brian Snipe may be the problem. I finally found out what my problem with LineType Scale was. The majority of the drawing files had someones custom line type for dashed and only a few had the actual Acad dashed line. The guy that started this project has left many glitches…
Gee, Brad- It sounds like you are just the person to help lead the training program in the directions necessary to make R12 blow everyone's socks off; what with your presumably intimate knowledge of the features of R12, knowledge of the process of the development of each feature, of what/how/when…
Peter: Yes, I think you're well on the way to public self flagilation and matrydom… either way, now, you're gonna get the OMF… if Autodesk listens… for a cause well executed. If they don't… for making a mess of yourself on the forum . Keep up the good work. The…
Jeff: Yes, you can get a form from Autodesk that you can fill out for the purchaser of the previously owned AutoCAD and they can send it in, along with the original disk containing the serial number to Autodesk for an update when they need to… C#
John: There can be a number of causes, but if you're using R11, my first guess would be that you don't have enough disk space on the disk that your swapdefdir variable is pointing at… C#
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