This is an archive of CompuServe forum messages from 1985 to 1995, as saved in transcripts by John Foust.
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Chaos: going Dutch
Message #12409
Keith – G'Day. I passed your comments concerning Chaos Theory and the stock market to a customer in Holland. He doesn't have access to CompuServe at the moment but would like to correspond with you. Here is his address: Richard T. Verhey Gooierserf 72 1276 KP Huizen Holland Home Phone…
Bill – We are considering adding options to a future release which will let you configure AutoCAD's file safety features, like the EXPERT system variable. Logic dictates that the spacer files reside in the same directory where the DWG came from, because that's where the DWG will go when you're…
New features in the Release 11 of AutoCAD for the Macintosh (ca. Dec 91): Advanced Modeling Extensions (AME) — AME gives AutoCAD the ability to build and analyze complex three-dimensional solid models. (Requires System 7 and 16Mb of RAM, part of which can be virtual.) New user interface — The…
Mike – As Duff says, we haven't made any plans regarding OS/2 2.0. As for the SHELL error, you may want to report it to IBM so that they can investigate it.
Tom – Zowie. A 1.3 Mb drawing file that expands to 25Mb upon start up, and produces a 97Mb swap file after half an hour of work? My goodness, that's a lot of text. The 29 attributes per block are the main source of the overhead, I'm sure. You might…
Charles – AutoCAD initializes the COM port when it plots, then re-initializes it when it returns to the Drawing Editor — allowing you to use the same port for plotter and digitizer. The CalComp driver uses 9600, E,7,1 and XON/XOFF handshaking. If you want to use other parameters for the…
Charles – The FIX-80386 insert from Ironwood solves Erratum 21. The FIX chip does not solve Erratum 17, which is the cause of most of the problems we see. Only a new CPU will solve that problem. We have ERRAT17.EXP, an ADS program that works around the INTEL bug, available…
Josh – Thanks for the help.
David – You can change the screen size and location on multiscan monitors to match different frequencies from the graphics card. Perhaps you need to adjust it for VGA, or have it adjusted. Most of Chaos runs at 640×480, or higher, with some bits of 320x200x256 colors where appropriate. Again,…
Joseph and David – We have one fellow in Product Support who uses DESQview; I will ask him to test the question. Sorry about keeping you waiting. My immediate guess is to try running the modules individually, rather than using the metashell.
Raymond – Thanks for the report. Yes, we have documented that one, too. I don't have a good fix for it, either.
Robert – Hey, nice job of hacking; I like the way you handle the multiple entities. The reason that it fails is that DIVIDE rquires a list of the entity name and an a pick point (see entsel for an example). I used (list en (cdr(assoc 10 (entget en)))) as…
Dan – We usually drop the previous version when a new port is released — for instance, we don't sell R10 for the SUN after R11 for the SUN is released. But we sometimes have to keep the older versions available because large corporations won't buy it now unless we…
Claude – Have each node start a new drawing, NULL, then they can all XREF the drawing they want to share.
Manjit – here is the message, from Carl Bethea: : 28481 S1/AutoCAD 13-Jan-92 17:16:56 Manjit – An ellipse in AutoCAD is a polyline with 16 arcs (4 in each quadrant) which approximate a true ellipse.
Manjit – An ellipse in AutoCAD is a polyline with 16 arcs (4 in each quadrant) which approximate a true ellipse.
Raymond – Yes, that is a confirmed bug. Your work-around is better than anything we have come up with. The only improvement I can offer is to use a blank instead of a null as the prefix. Another, more exotic, answer would be to create a null character — one…
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#r11 Novell lock files!!
Message #28459
Claude – All files may be externally referenced by mutiple nodes. I take it that you want access by multiple nodes to a file that is currently being modified. The assumption AutoCAD makes is that ownership of the file is absolute; that is, if a node is allowed access, then…
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#Moment of Inertia
Message #28458
Ricard – If you have AME, then you can compute the proper moments. Be aware that the calculations are based on the current UCS.
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Release 11 runs slow
Message #28457
Ray – You don't mention which version of R10 you were using or which version of R11 you now have installed. You also don't mention any other changes to the system (like, updating to DOS 5, perhaps). Assuming that you had R10 DOS, and you have updated to R11 386,…
Chaos in the UK
Message #6508
My counterparts in London tell me: Chaos is available from Autodesk Ltd. for 49 pounds and 95 pence. The number to call is 0483 300077
Mike – You may want to investigate AutoTools from Robert McNeel & Associates (206-545-7000). This is an ADS application toolkit with dBASE-like commands and file structure. There is a demo in one of the Libraries — 2, AutoLISP, I think.
Joseph – The sample disk has several library files which must be decompressed by the INSTALL program. It seems very odd that lightening would strike twice — considering that several hundreds of diskettes have passed in the interim. Could be, you know, that the floppy disk drive needs maintenance. I…