This is an archive of CompuServe forum messages from 1985 to 1995, as saved in transcripts by John Foust.
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Roger: We came up with a solution for the "screen size" issue for the tutorial file: Windows Help. Try it…. You can use TrueType fonts for your text screens, and the text re-formats based on the actual window size, and isn't locked to any specific resolution. The screen re-paints much…
Pat: I'll take a shot at some of these questions: 1) Contact Cynde Broadhurst at Autodesk (sorry I don't have her direct phone number handy). She's the Educational Grants Administrator. 2) I have Orchid VA cards in all my machines in my lab and really like them. Very fast in…
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ArcCAD Certification
Message #40859
Shoe: Yes, getting ArcCAD Certified was not easy. Besides a week of required training, you have to complete an extensive take-home Instructor Questionaire. Mine ended up being about 40 pages long. I am told there are only 32 of us in the country now. We're hoping for big demands in…
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#MM equipment
Message #40836
Sally (or Mark?): Just wanted to mention I have one of those NEC CDR-74 drives, and I love it, but the Koss speakers that came with it are not very good. They sound pretty awful, have litte bass response, and almost no power (what do you expect for battery powered…
Pat: I can't say it's the best method, but what we've been doing the past two years is to have a first-term freshman class called "Technical Drawing/CAD Level I". In this class the students spend the first 4 weeks doing "traditional" had drafting, but we just stress overall methods, like…
#F1280 DRIVER FOR R11
Message #27935
Russ: Didn't know I could find you here. Remember the DesignMaster VGA card you sent me in June for the museum exhibit? Well, it's still here in my office, in the original box, never opened. I'm sending it back today. The story is that the computer that we were supposed…
John: Yes, the possibility for my students to get their hands on an actual project is valuable. We always run out of stuff, so we end up recycling projects every year. I'll look forward to hearing from you when you have more details. Besides managing the ATC here, I teach…
John: I have done this many many times. I need an idea how big of an area (acres) and the scale of the drawing, or the actual size of the drawing (paper size) and a relative guess on the relief (in other words, is the terrain steep or flat –…
Chris: Darn…. I live in Salem and I'd like to hitch a ride with you, only I can't go to this meeting. Please keep me in mind for the next one. While I got you, what's the status on TurboDLD? Christine promised it for our ATC a while ago, but…
Ellerbe: I'm pretty sure you're not gonna find any 3rd party books out there anywhere. I've been approached many times to write one, but I don't want to make a career out of it. No sooner than I'd get it written, and they'd have an update shipping that would cause…
Oh Great… Well, I guess that's why we get hardware on eval basis. Right now I'm in the middle of a PPT session with my machine, and I chickened out and yanked the card, replacing it with the old Diamond SpeedStar. I'll try once more when I get my machine…
Steve: I just bought an Nth-TV board from Nth Graphics (list about $1500), and frankly, I'm not too impressed so far. I may have a defective card, but it refuses to make correct colors in 3D Studio and AniPro. It could also be their drivers, but it also won't work…
Tom: I have been using Stacker 2.0 for quite awhile now. I use it in my ATC lab on all my machines. So far I have yet to have a problem with it. A friend of mine at a dealer did extensive benchmarking, and found that Stacker actually made his…
Dave: HiJaak is from Inset Systems, 71 Commerce Drive, Brookfield CT 06804-3405 (203) 740-2400 FAX: (203) 775-5634 My latest PC Magazine has an ad from PC Connection for HiJaak for $139. It's worth it. -KLF
Roger: The support I have gotten from Gateway has been good, at least on the one occasion that I had to call them (concerning the problem as we had). I did get a collective "Wow!" when I told them I had 24 MB installed, so I agree that we are…
Dave: Yeah, HiJaak can convert vector files (such as .DXF) to raster files (.PCX, .GIF, etc.). You can't go the other way, though. -KLF
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