#autocad novice
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I wanted to thank you for your message of encouragement in installing
AutoCad on my computer. Yes it was relatively easy and I had little trouble
completing it. I have to say, that my original reason for purchasing the
program was to learn application programs that could be run through
AutoCad.I was particularly interested in Civil Engineering programs such as
the Cogo applications programs compatable with AutoCad. To make a long
story short, I joined the appropriate forum and browsed through the library
and found a Cogo program, downloaded it and tried to run the demonstration
drawing. I could not get the program to run because AutoCad said that there
wasn't enough memory to run it.
I don't think that I can extend memory on my machine because it is an old
XT. If you could shed some light on this particular problem or direct me to
the appropriate source, such as a local user's group in my area, I would
appreciate it. Thanks for your help.
Revis,
XT eh? Well, we got some good news and we've got some bad news. The good
news is that you can add memory boards that will give you enough room to
run the programs, but it's going to be a lot of work. The bad news is
you're going to need a memory manager to make it all work and you can't run
anything newer on your machine than the release of AutoCAD that you now
have. The memory manager SHOULD be QEMM, unless you're running Compaq DOS.
I say this simply because you'll find the most help on the Forum for it.
386 to the MAX is another good program if you've got it. There are several
other Forum members that will be able to help you with this since my need
to deal with such mundane items as extended and expanded memory were
eliminated when I switched to R10 386<g>. Leave a message on the Forum to
All asking for recommendations about what kind of memory boards to use (we
used AST boards as I recall, but DFI makes good (inexpensive) boards as
well. You've found your greatest resource here with this Forum, don't be
shy about utilizing it. Tell us where you're from and we'll give you
whatever leads we have on User's Groups in your area.
What do you do? I'm in Civil Engineering myself, and currently using
Softdesk's DCA software.
Dennis