This is an archive of CompuServe forum messages from 1985 to 1995, as saved in transcripts by John Foust.
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Greg, I was a Hi-Res QFX die hard Windose Scoffer, but a strange thing happened to me about three months ago…I started trying to do the same things I was doing in QFX in Photoshop (where I have to scan and print anyhow), and I woke up about six hours…
John, How useful is the Matrox real time 3D for you? I am wondering if it jumps up fast enough to make you really want to use it? Does it bog down or crash with big models? Is it good enough to make you port files back into Acad to…
Gary, I looked at this problem for awhile, and settled on 2Mb ATI Ultra Pro VLB for a flock of 3DS/HRQ systems. The ATI was the only card that I could find at the time that would support VESA 1.2 modes above 640x480x16… Now, I saw a Diamond Viper Vesa…
Marion/Anna, I just bought a Calcomp and a Kurta XGT in addition to the Wacom that we are already using. If money were no object, I would buy another Wacom, (the stylus is much lighter–this can be a real factor if you are in the habit of doing multiple all-night…
James, You won't know what you are missing on a tiny ArtV board until you try a bigger tablet… If you can't afford a 12×12 Wacom, buy a Kurta XGT! Donald
Max, You need to load the DOS tablet manager. (I forget the command, but I had the same problem and added this little ?_IP?.EXE to my autoexec and everything works.
Ralph, When you bevel text, are you beveling whole words in one loft or assembling the letters… I ask because the few times that I have tried these things, when I lofted a whole word the bevel effect was stronger towards the outside of the word, but weak towards the…
You can print from Windows, but you will need to beef up the standard RAM if you want to print full page, otherwise, I am pushing Image Alchemy, which will convert files to HP RTL which you can dump straight to the printer and get big images with no extra…
#CAMERA ACCURACY
Message #79816
Thanks for the help! I wouldn't have thought that we could get corrected verticals in a fisheye view!
Jack, I haven't lost any clients yet, but time and projects slip away quickly when we come up against hard limitations in our software. Render blowup does offer some great new ways to frame views. However, it really doesn't have much to do with optics or cameras. Render blowup is…
Try Image Alchemy to convert images to the HP language then dump them to the printer from the command line. Works great for me on a 1200c color printer with 2Mb, and on a HP 650C plotter with 4Mb — HP told me that I would not be able to…
Michael, What exactly does Facade do? How much does it cost? I am very interested in modeling add-ins for AutoCad.
The 3D Studio manual does a pretty poor job of covering this issue. Newer video cards do make life simple with 1.0 aspect ratios, but standard VGA (and the basic AAPLAY flic player) use an aspect ratio of 0.82. Life gets really wierd if you have a flic (0.82) that…
Camera Accuracy? I would appreciate any kind of information about 3D Studio's "camera". I have been combining photography and 3D Studio/AutoCad generated images for the past five years, and have noticed that camera "properties" have changed between software versions, and that camera "focal lengths" do not seem to correspond to…
HP 650C 3D Studio driver
Message #73034
Jon, After months of looking, I may have found what may be the best (fastest) and least expensive way to print images to HP color printers (including the 650C). Image Alchemy, from Handmade Software, makes a utility, ALCHEMY, which will convert almost any image file format to RTL, the subset…
#ILM
Message #66267
John, If you're looking for a great book on computer graphics, try "The Reconfigured Eye", by William Mitchell, and published by the MIT Press this year. Mitchell's book covers the field of computer graphics, its methods and the many issues raised by the medium in a way that will not…
#Gen. Network/Machine
Message #66266
I have two workstations on a Lantastic network with a dedicated server. One of the workstations is a 486-50 (EISA) with 64Mb and the other is a 486-66 (VLB) with 32Mb. On projects that involve no paging, my 486-50 still outperforms my 486-66 by as much as 30%! I just…
#Gen. Network/Machine
Message #66265
Hi again! How much does having less base RAM affect performance? I am very interested as we need a lot of different drivers and TSRs for different purposes and have never worried about it, thinking that the extender would take care of everything for me. I am hoping we won't…
What is this Alchemy driver? We are considering a Pain(t)jet XL300 or a Deskjet 1200C, but have yet to find a fast way of printing TGA's. We are stuck with loading Windows, then Photoshop, then wait, wait, while Photoshop processes, then wait, wait, while our demo Paintjet XL 300 prints……
#3DS2RIB RIB23DS
Message #66263
It is hard to believe that there is a little intrest as you and others at Adesk have infered about RIB conversion. Adesk's quiet failure to deliver on that little promise ranks right up there with the Visual Link fiasco when I am looking for things to dislike about 3DS.…
That's exactly what we ended up doing, inserting verticies manually. Too bad that Optimize doesn't help in reducing path detail… Thanks! Donald Newlands
#Loft path optimization
Message #53478
Hello, We are doing some simple 3D piping in a model, lofting circles along paths containing linear segments and arcs. We want plenty of detail around the arcs, but no path detail in the straight segments. We also want to be able to loft a whole pipe in one fell…
Don, We haven't had THAT much trouble….but I haven't tried 256 color modes yet… This is probably an obvious suggestion, but you might want to make sure that A000-C7FF is excluded in your memory manager… I would look at your Targa Plus there and try some different memory configurations on…
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Mapping
Message #45518
Alan, Hmm, mabie I'll wait for "circular" mapping… Thanks again, Donald
Nik, Thanks for responding! Yours, Donald Newlands
Nik, We bought Visual Link because there are still a few modelling tricks that can be done better in AutoCAD, particularly with AutoLisp. I want a 3DS/Acad translator to do a few things: 1) needs to be automatable with AutoLisp 2) needs to be able to handle big files easily…
We bought Visual Link thinking that it would be the answer to our prayers and came up with another piece of shelfware and a $500 certificate on our next copy of 3DS… What good is it if it can't weld verticies? Why can't someone write a translator that treats ELEMENTS…
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3D-STUDIO IFL FILES
Message #44233
Make sure that you don't have files with the same base name in different directories in your map path. Donald Newlands
#43759-
VTR TO DISK FIASCO
Message #44231
If you have multiple map paths setup in your project and files with the same root name (first four characters) 3D Studio will get confused about which directory to pull files from, even if you have explicitly pointed out which directory to use… Donald Newlands
Kevin, I need to amend my last message: As far as I can tell, 3DS R2 does not save the device or the image output path in a PRJ file–it returns toto the defaults in 3DS.SET. This is a pain for us as we are using a range of devices…
Kevin, Thanks for the info about material assignments by color in 3DS R2. I didn't know that. We have had a bunch of problems with DXF3DS, which we have not yet even resolved with CFIG386 — some DXF files produce a memory allocation errror and the two times that I…
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#3DS to Renderman
Message #16362
We do architectural and engineering renderings (photo-simulations). We haven't done much with Renderman yet for lack of a decent front end. However, I thoroughly expect to be doing a great deal more with it when the right tools arrive. Please put me on your mailing list when your products are…
Sydney, I only said that because there seems to so little activity here on Compuserve about Renderman. Hopefully, with the converter, we will see more people using it and building a lively dialogue on this forum! Yours, Donald Newlands
Thanks Dave!
Thanks Jay! I browse for it again! It sounds like a great utility! –Donald Newlands
#DXF to 3DS
Message #11194
Hi Sysops, I was browsing around a week or so and saw a program that seemed to be the answer to many prayers, but couldn't stop to download it. Now I can't find it. (Mabie it was a dream, or another BBS?) That file was something like DXF23DS.ZIP, a DXF…
#28027-
Maximizing Plot Vectors
Message #28878
David, I solved the problem of not generating enough line segments with the SPLINESEGS variable. But in the process, I discovered another, much more interesting problem. If I set SPLINESEGS too high, AutoCAD will plot the drawing with a "noisey" line. From a distance, the splines appear fine in the…
#27965-
Maximizing Plot Vectors
Message #28876
My client's fabricator is using a product by Measurement Masters (California). –Donald
#28097-
General info on ACAD
Message #28875
Brad, I don't know anything about mechanical engineering! Sorry… –Donald
Conference Logs
Message #22145
Hi, I was just wondering if you are posting the conference transcripts anywhere on the SIG??? If you posted them all it would probably take a new data library, but what if we could just see the (unedited) log of the last week's conference in DL9? It would sure save…
#Sketch beeping
Message #21714
Hi, I was just wondering if you foks might know why when lowering the "pen" in the sketch command, ACAD sometimes beeps frantically and says (I think) "raise the pen!" making everyone in the office think that machine has crashed, or that I have made some insidious mistake, and generally…
#Sketch beeping
Message #21714
Hi, I was just wondering if you foks might know why when lowering the "pen" in the sketch command, ACAD sometimes beeps frantically and says (I think) "raise the pen!" making everyone in the office think that machine has crashed, or that I have made some insidious mistake, and generally…
3DS to Renderman
Message #15676
Hi, I have been logging into CIS every week since I got the R2 upgrade for 3D Studio, anxiously hoping to download the promised 3DS to RIB translator but to no avail! Is there a new planned release date for the utility? Am I looking in the wrong place? Am…
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