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Mike: Thanks so much for your tips on high quality 11×17 output! I'd like to take you up on your offer to share your recommendations on service bureaus capable of very good to excellent 11×17 prints, regardless of their location in the U.S. Anybody else out there is encourage to…
#hi res 11×17 printing
Message #131891
I'm looking for a service bureau that can handle 11×17 >>high quality
#Colors w. ATI/Vibrant ?
Message #47143
Alex: I am a 3DS dealer in Austin, Texas. I don't sell hardware, but my clients ask me for hardware recommendations. I have a client that wants to know about the ATI Ultra Graphics Pro cards suitability for 3DS and AutoCAD. How has this card worked for you? Can you…
#Anti-aliasing
Message #28359
Jake: Does your software support anti-aliasing for any of the super VGA cards/ Ralph Grabowski said that DLD-386 Deluxe did anti-aliasing on the VMI DesignMaster VGA. I have a client with a SpeedStar HiColor with a similar chipset. Thanks for your help. Lansing Pugh Authorized AutoCAD Dealer / Austin, Texas
#Anti-aliasing
Message #28358
Your article in January's Cadence, on page 76, said that Panacea's DLD 386 Deluxe supported anti-aliasing. Are you sure? A client of mine that has the Diamond Speedstar Hi-Color wants to know if that would work on his similarly chip-equipped card. Thanks for any help you might provide. Lansing Pugh…
Joe: I'm not sure what is the cause of your continuing problems installing Disk 5, the Sample/Bonus disk. One idea: on this disk there are many, many, small files. A malfunction in the disk cacheing >might< cause problems here that don't show up otherwise. I'd disable all caches and give…
No, I haven't run AutoCAD on the Quadra. I suspect it is somewhat similar to running it on the Radius Rocket 68040 I have in my Mac IIx, which yields reasonable performance in some categories, slow in others.
Joshua: Your best investment on an AutoCAD accelerator for the Macintosh would be a clone 483-33 sitting next to your Mac. After that, I would suggest that you get the Mac with the fastest clock speed (like a Quadra 700) to lower the regen times. A Radius QuickCAD will fix…
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#MAC 11 ???????
Message #21628
Allan: No shipping date for R11 Mac (It is useless to predict; too many unknowns). AME is a maybe, from what I hear. Lansing Pugh AutoCAD Dealer / Austin, Texas
Richard: .. Somehow your message got chopped off. You were asking about AutoCAD and the higher end Apples. Keep tuned. I hear from the grapevine that an announcement may be made at AEC Expo in early May. ..
Richard: .. We'd like to help you out. Can you be more specific about what you are trying to do? ..
Thanks for your suggestions, Don. That certainly is a better value. .. Lansing.
I think that's a perfectly reasonable approach. Thanks! .. ..
Font source code for the Hershey fonts? .. They aren't on my Bonus disk. Tell me if the are on yours. .. Thanks, .. .. Lansing
#Font Definitions
Message #22076
Seems to me that when I got my Release 9, most of the new fonts were available only in the compiled form. Has this changed? .. Would there be any problem with you uploading the source for those fonts to the data library? .. Thanks, .. Lansing ..
Terry- .. Code 10 is the linefeed character. Refer to Page 360 in the AutoCAD 2.5 manual or Pages 353-4 in the Release 9 manual, where you will see the linefeed definition from one sample font file printed out as .. *10,5,lf 2,8,(0,-10),0 .. the 8 indicates that a x,y…
Well, never mind. .. I just copied acad2.ovl and acadvs.ovl from the R9 originals and the problem disappeared. .. .. Gee, Jamie. Hope you didn't lose any sleep over this. ..
Steve, .. The resolution of the Nth is 640×480 on the Multisync. .. I think you would find the image substantially crisper and easier to work with than the Sigma. You will wonder how you put up with the Sigma for so long. .. Good luck in your decision-making. ..…
The weird part is that I haven't made the hatch pattern. I'm just trying to use the acad.pat off the original disks. Whenever I do a hatch "lp" (which DOES NOT EXIST ) I get la bomba. .. Still puzzled. What can I send? Maybe you should fly me and…
Hey Rusty! .. I don't meet any of the above qualifications, but I did want to butt in and congratulate you on your new book "Customizing AutoCAD". What an incredible resource! I am very impressed with the quality and quantity of information y'all put in this monster. .. I really…
Keith- .. Use a text editor, or the DOS copy command, to put the files together into one large file. Check first for name redundancies. .. Lansing Pugh Authorized AutoCAD, AEC, and LandCADD dealer. Austin, Texas (512) 441-4666 .. .. .. .. ps. If you have any trouble, I'd be…
Phil- .. The cryptic message that you get is AutoLisp's way of saying "Feed me!". .. It knows that it is short a paren- so type one (or more) in. Same problem with lack of balancing quotes. It isn't hung, just give it a bunch of quotes and parens and…
Okay. .. I'll bite. .. What is psychoactive software? .. .. Regards, .. Lansing. .. (I guess I need to return soon to Sausalito for my triennial attitude realignment.) ..
Scott, .. I sell a software plot buffer called "The Spooler". It does not have as many bells and whistles as some of the other buffers, but it is very reliable and fast. I have happy customers using it on HP Draftpro's, HP Draftmasters, and Calcomp 1043GT's. Contact me, your…
Scott, .. I sell a software plot buffer called "The Spooler". It does not have as many bells and whistles as some of the other buffers, but it is very reliable and fast. I have happy customers using it on HP Draftpro's, HP Draftmasters, and Calcomp 1043GT's. Contact me, your…
Steve, .. Good luck with your meeting with the LandCADD dealer. LandCADD has lots of good stuff in it and is well supported by its authors. .. Thanks for sending me your shareware check! .. Leave me a message if you need any further help. .. .. Lansing Pugh Authorized…
Steve, .. Good luck with your meeting with the LandCADD dealer. LandCADD has lots of good stuff in it and is well supported by its authors. .. Thanks for sending me your shareware check! .. Leave me a message if you need any further help. .. .. Lansing Pugh Authorized…
Dave, .. I think maybe you are being a little harsh with Video 7. .. To get a feel for the complexity and memory requirements of the Advanced User Interface on graphics cards, I suggest you read Melanie Knutsen's "A Device Driver Primer" in the current issue of CADalyst. (Volume…
Dave, .. I think maybe you are being a little harsh with Video 7. .. To get a feel for the complexity and memory requirements of the Advanced User Interface on graphics cards, I suggest you read Melanie Knutsen's "A Device Driver Primer" in the current issue of CADalyst. (Volume…
Although no one is more outspoken here in support of things Apple, I must point out that direct output to an Apple Laserwriter via the serial port is a less expensive solution for those AutoCAD users not using TOPS. However, since the Laserwriter is so expensive, sharing it among several…
Although no one is more outspoken here in support of things Apple, I must point out that direct output to an Apple Laserwriter via the serial port is a less expensive solution for those AutoCAD users not using TOPS. However, since the Laserwriter is so expensive, sharing it among several…
Great! .. Hey I think you'll be the first! .. I posted the routine a long time ago…it probably needs some updating. .. I figure nobody sent me anything 'cause it was so simple that anybody could do it and because I didn't ask enough for it. I've since learned…
Great! .. Hey I think you'll be the first! .. I posted the routine a long time ago…it probably needs some updating. .. I figure nobody sent me anything 'cause it was so simple that anybody could do it and because I didn't ask enough for it. I've since learned…
Hi Steven – .. I'm hardly in your territory, but I do sell LandCADD. What's the matter, can't you get them to give you a dealer referral in you area? .. I'm sure I can talk to Greg or Jill Jameson or Anna Marie at LandCADD for you if you…
Hi Steven – .. I'm hardly in your territory, but I do sell LandCADD. What's the matter, can't you get them to give you a dealer referral in you area? .. I'm sure I can talk to Greg or Jill Jameson or Anna Marie at LandCADD for you if you…
In the words of a robot seen in some silly movie – .. NEED MORE DATA! .. What commands did you issue from the DOS prompt and what responses were getting? .. ..
In the words of a robot seen in some silly movie – .. NEED MORE DATA! .. What commands did you issue from the DOS prompt and what responses were getting? .. ..
First of all, I hope you have a very big hard disk. .. IGES files are verbose. 3 to 10 times bigger than the same drawing in AutoCAD format, I'd guess. .. I suspect you could do what you propose to do by using DOS to make a text file…
First of all, I hope you have a very big hard disk. .. IGES files are verbose. 3 to 10 times bigger than the same drawing in AutoCAD format, I'd guess. .. I suspect you could do what you propose to do by using DOS to make a text file…
Steven – that's the kind of advice you might try your dealer for. If you don't have a dealer (or you are a dealer, like me), you might try talking to manufacturers and distributors. Your budget might turn out to be a little tight, but I think its worth a…
Steven – that's the kind of advice you might try your dealer for. If you don't have a dealer (or you are a dealer, like me), you might try talking to manufacturers and distributors. Your budget might turn out to be a little tight, but I think its worth a…
I agree. Autodesk folks are sensitive to the speed question, though, because for a while AutoCAD had the image of being powerful but ponderously slow. Now I rarely hear that criticism, thanks to hardware improvements and code refinements. .. Let's encourage Autodesk programmer's to go for the feature's that add…
Thanks for the suggestion, Gregg! ..
Steve – .. The script file capability of AutoCAD was not meant to be used in the manner you outline. It was originally designed to allow Autodesk sales people to have a running "show" on the screen at trade shows. So, the only pause capability relates to interrupting the script…
"Changing the ACAD.LSP file voids the warranty". .. Good grief. Surely you jest. .. Reviewing my "Software License Agreement", I am reminded that I have not actually purchased a product, but have paid a one-time fee for the limited right to use your software for up to 20 years. When…