This is an archive of CompuServe forum messages from 1985 to 1995, as saved in transcripts by John Foust.
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Tim: Looks to me like you have QEMM installed improperly. Ditch it and see if the problem goes away immediately… if it does, then download QINST.DOC from DL6 and read it… My guess is that QEMM isn't aware of what portion of upper ram that your network/and or hard drive…
Heather: Both John and I have… and I have been very happy with them. I put my own 486 together and saved about $200 over their price… and I wouldn't recommend that anyone go through what I went through, but I wanted to learn a thing or two. Ask for…
Mark: No… but if you're using ACAD R11 you can use a bonus program called CHTXT, I think it is, and change all of the text height at once. If you are using R10, the check out some of the text editing lisp routines that are in Library 2. Many…
Hey… is that how much they own of the market over in the LEAP forum? . C#
Myron: Then get Autosketch… it's cheap and easy to learn. AND, when you sketch around on it, you can give a DXF file to your consultants (who probably use AutoCAD) and they can load your doodles right into their drawing! C#
Steve: Well, that certainly answers that one with a resounding duh! . You don't have the thing plotting model space when you have a paper space viewport set up, do you? C#
Angelo: I DON'T WANT THEM COMBINED…. C#
Michael: No… but I think Autodesk realizes that this is an oversight and has plans to fix it in the future. C#
Angelo: I didn't mean to imply that Block solid couldn't do them, or in any way was deficient. I meant to imply that I don't think you can predict what any open meshed (and possibly many close meshed) objects in AutoCAD are going to do in 3DS. Until Autodesk provides…
You can also use an RGB camera on a stand and a video capture card such as a Targa and get pretty good 'scans', too… The nice thing about this is your graphics card can do alot more for you than sit in the corner while you're creating a rendering…
Heather: I would recommend Comtrade in California… your good buddy John Intorcio can give you the number. I have it at the office, but I don't Cserve from there unless I'm desperate…. C#
Yes, you need to buy additional fonts. You can find alot of font makers in Cadalyst or Cadence magazine…. You can also array your text around it's insertion point in very, very small increments. This will make your drawings large and slow, however. C#
Steven: Well, first, my opinion is that for the $ you are fine with 128k of cache instead of 256k… you won't see a proportionate increase in speed for the $ you spend for that expensive memory… I would put that money, plus a little bit more, into extra RAM…
Steve: My >guess< (and it's a guess since I'm not sitting there) is that the plotter is sitting there because AutoCAD is sitting there. If you issue the HIDE command, then you have to allow for the fact that it takes time for HIDE to work before you can do…
Greg: Well, David Gari is pretty knowledgeable on the subject when it comes to the Phar Lap Dos extender features and AutoCAD's use of extended or expanded memory. This is the most important aspect of a 386 version installtion. There isn't much you can do to improve upon a no…
Mario: Somewhere in the back of my mind I recall a bug in one of the versions of AutoCAD that had to do with Attributes and the layer 0. I don't recall what it is, but mabye if you point your query at David Gari he can look it up…
You know, as a professional who is constantly faced with morons who want it cheaper and faster, I can't help but saying 'You're getting what you deserved'. I'm pretty much sick and tired of the American public groaning and moaning about this ill or that but doing little to correct…
Kevin: It has been my experience that there is no predictable way to make sure that the faces have the normals pointing in the same direction unless you make all of the faces 3 sided and contstruct them in a counterclockwise fashion when looking at the object from the viewing…
Gary: Well, I >think< I could do it with a Renderman Shader if I wanted to get serious about C, and I suppose you could do it with a Fractal, but I don't have the time for either right now… and most people won't. I wonder if there is some…
#HAIR…
Message #8215
Has anybody got any ideas on how to create the textures like hair, fur, grass, porcupine spikes, and the like (sea anemones?) in 3D Studio? I don't think bump mapping will quite get the extremes in surface distortion. Craig
Dave: Why don't you go on V7's BBS and see if they have drivers posted, yet? (I don't have the number handy, but I can get it if you need it…). C#
Jeff: Well, the last one I did was for a standard that didn't allow nested blocks, polylines, ellipses, or 3D elements (so I checked for all of those) and had standard names that were allowed for blocks (so I checked to see that the names fit within the variables allowed)…
Antonio: You should go ACAD and ask the question over there. This is the forum for Multi-media… I can think of two… Drawing Librarian and AutoBase. They are advertised in Cadalyst and Cadence. C#
Tom: I don't use any… I just envy those that have them . I always check out what you're doing at the trade shows and am always impressed with the quality of the product, both software and hardware. Maybe someday I'll buy a RealVision . C#
Bill: Yes, that should be enough room. Do you only have one partition? If not, did you redirect AutoCAD to use the partition that has the space on it? What version of DOS are you using? C#
Dennis: Try John Sergneri… C#
Jim: Well, I'm not a Calcomp user, so I would suggest that you contact Evan Yares here on the forum… he may know something I don't. Are you using an ADI driver or are you using AutoCAD's internal driver? You could also have a defective com port… I got one…
Brian: You may be right… I know I used to be able to read what the atomlist contained… I just don't remember how I did it… I have taken the approach 'Damn the Torpedos' and use weird function names…. C#
Tony: Well, I didn't reply that I knew what the problem was… what I said was accurate, and I plead innocence (a faint excuse designed to disguise what others would call stupidity ). I've never used Divide or Measure in a LISP routine…. C#
Ken: I sent the message to John… don't ask me what the heck is going on. C#
Jeff: I have written two such beasts… and I don't think I would want to take on writing one that would work for anyone. If I were going to, I would write a file that contained a coded line telling AutoLISP what was going to be checked (e.g. >>LAYER
Robert: You don't need the (progn and the associated ')'. I also presume that you have the pdmode and pdsize variables set such that you can see that the entity division has occurred. I would also recommend that you include a test for objects that can't be divided (e.g. inserts).…
Ralph: I don't know if I agree that software is taking over hardware… I think the software writers discovered that the more products that they have out there the more $ they will get from updates (feature or new hardware generated…). The more $ from updates, the more products you…
Laurie: The difference between each screen in terms of the movement of colors between pixels is called the delta information. To make modifications of the screen contents, Animator tracks only those pixels that require a change. Thus, when ALL of them change as opposed to ONE of them changing, the…
816-221-6311.
HEY! Speaking of faxes and pressing a few buttons, I am getting desperate, here! (waiting on hardware info…). It's mail I want, however . C#
Bill: You ran out of disk space on the disk that you have directed AutoCAD to put its page directory. C#
Dennis: Well, there isn't a formal list. Most of the newer graphics cards come with a driver for ACAD386. Do you want a protected mode driver or a real mode driver (pmode is better…) and do you want bells and whistles or just a driver? C#
Tom: Glad to see you on here… I'm a fan of your products. C#
Denis: Try increasing the size of the sh command in your acad.pgp file… you can edit it with a text editor in non-document mode. You probably have a shell command that requests 27000 bytes… bump it up to 45000 and see what happens. C#
Jeff: Sounds to me like you are running some lisp routines that are disabling AutoLISP, or it's atomlist… type !atomlist at the command prompt and see what you get… C#
Jim: Make sure that you have it hooked up to the correct com port… the way things are these days, I can never tell which is which on a new machine . Also, once you have configured AutoCAD for the correct device and com port, turn everything off (I mean…
Dennis: I don't think it's the driver that's the issue. When and if AutoCAD doesn't have to reinitialize devices when their configuration changes, then the problem will be solved, I believe. But, I'm only guessing… I don't know alot about packets, digitizer coordinates, and the like. C#
#Plotmanler
Message #28325
John: Cadence magazine recently gave Plotmangler the ability to monitor a plot server directory and plot files? Is this true? C#
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#tablet help
Message #28324
Dennis: Set the tablet up the way you want it, and then shell out of AutoCAD and make a copy of the acad.cfg file to something like mentab.cfg. Then, configur the tablet for digitizing and do the same to acad.cfg calling it digtab.cfg. Write a batch file that copies the…
Animator Pro Upgrade
Message #7602
David: AAPro is higher resolution, it has anim cels, it has an effects programming language called POCO, and it added a feature or enhanced a feature here and there… it also requires extended memory and a 386 or better to run. I think it's what we were all waiting for…
Jeff: I know… I was being a bit tongue in cheek… however, I would guess that animating 24 bit color would be something like doing an animation in 3DS… lots o' bits. All you have to do is make a movie with 3DS and then map it onto a plane…
Jeff: They do have one already… plus it does some pretty neat stuff in 3D . C#
Alec: IT IS NOT REQUIRED… it is intelligent, on your part, to have a program that will do what AniPro does… you can buy others that will sorta do the same thing. It's your choice. You can still use 3DS to do whatever it is that you want and you…
Brad: Are there any limitations when using an STB Powergraph (1024x768x256) as far as driver compatability is concerned? Will your AniPro drivers work on this card? C#
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