Subject: Re: »» Digitizer or Mouse for R13?
From: William Kiernan <71331.3510@compuserve.com>
Date: Sun, 08 Dec 1996 11:28:44 -0500
Gary Slicker wrote:
>
> On Fri, 29 Nov 1996 21:20:33 GMT, indy1cache@iquest.net (John H.)
> wrote:
>
> >What pointer device is best for Autocad R13.... Digitizer or Mouse?
>
> I have preferred the digitizer for a long time. But now I am using
> Autocad r13c4 with Windows NT. Everything is on the screen (toolbars),
> you don't need the digitizer. A mouse is much cheaper, more robust,
> easier on the hand and wrist (remember RSI!), and you can keep your
> eyes on the screen. No more digitizers for me!
>
> Gary Slicker
My take is: get your tablet set up as a pointing device in Windows
(preferably in "absolute" mode, so a point on the face of the tablet
maps directly to a point on the monitor), set up your tablet driver so
an area about 3" high by 4" wide maps to your screen, and you will find
that after a short time using it, you will prefer the tablet to any
mouse. The big difference is the "absolute" pointing mode. If you have
a tablet lying around, try it; you'll see what I'm talking about. But
you'll have to get used to it for about a couple of weeks. Oh yes, also
get one of those gel-filled wrist-pads.
The hard part is getting a tablet driver that works right. For NT3.51,
with my Summa tablet, the new Summa v.2.1 driver is the first one I've
tried that works right. Also, you need to replace the updated
CSRSRV.DLL that got installed with Service Pack 4 with the original
CSRSRV.DLL that came with Build 1057. If you have a Calcomp, they too
have good drivers (in fact, it's the same BBS, since Calcomp bought
Summa) The Calcomp drivers and tablets can be a real pain to configure,
though. I don't know what to do if you have another brand, such as
Kurta; I use my Kurta XGT in Summa MicroGrid emulation mode with the
Summa drivers.
The problem most mouse users have is that if they're used to using a
mouse, for about one or two weeks, they will be uncomfortable and less
productive. I've done this at work, where I am the company Computer
Nerd (this is cruel); I open up their PC and disconnect the mouse port!
The user complains (of course); I tell the user, "Oh, your mouse is
blown out. Happens all the time. I've got one on order. In the
meanwhile, you'll have to put up with this tablet. Sorry!" A couple of
weeks later, I reconnect the mouse port. In the meanwhile, the user has
got used to the tablet, and invariably he prefers it, even after I "fix"
his mouse and offer to reconfigure AutoCAD back to using the mouse
again.
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Subject: Re: Text on curved surface-r13
From: William Kiernan <71331.3510@compuserve.com>
Date: Sun, 08 Dec 1996 11:55:54 -0500
TC wrote:
>
> Can AutoCad r13 get text to 'lay' on curved surface while conforming to
> the curved plane? Is there a lisp routine for this?
>
> Thanks,
> TC
Boy this sounds like a fun problem! Can you send me an example drawing
with a "curved plane" entity in it? Are you talking about a 3D mesh?
And how would you pick where to start the text, and what direction the
text should go in?
I have a cheesy LISP program CTEXT.LSP that creates INSERTs of a BLOCK
called CURVETXT. Each INSERT has a bunch of ATTRIB entities, which
spell out a text string along an arc. CTEXT uses ENTMAKE to create the
IUNSERTs, rather than the INSERT command, so each CURVETXT INSERT can
have a different number of ATTRIBs. All I would have to do to modify it
to fit your needs is, first, to ask the user for the string, for the
insertion point of the string, for the direction, and for the 3D mesh
upon which to "lay" the text, then second, to calculate the insertion
point, rotation angle and extrusion vector for each letter in your
string; then I send the list of attributes to the subroutine and
generate the CURVETXT INSERT.
Send eMail to: WKiernan@concentric.net
Subject: Re: Connect to SQL Server ?
From: polanskt@chesapeake.net (Thomas N. Polanski)
Date: Sun, 08 Dec 1996 20:12:19 GMT
kerick@m2.dj.net.tw (Eric) wrote:
>Hi! Everyone,
> I run R13 in Win95, and I want to access Sql server on NT server
>by ODBC. Can anyone give me the detail hint to setup ODBC & the
>configuration of file "asi.ini". Following is my configuration of
>enviroment.
>1. ( R13 ---> ODBC client) ---> [ODBC Server ---> SQL Server]
>2. ( R13 ---> ODBC client ---> SQL Client) ---> [ SQL Server]
>in ( ) ---> Win95
>in [ ] ---> NT Server
>I had try MS-Query in Win95 to access SQL Server by ODBC successed.
>Thanks.
>kerick@m2.dj.net.tw
Go to www.autodesk.com and follow their links to technical docs (support). Somewhere in
there they have a detailed explanation of how to set up the ASI.INI file, it may be under
the ADE or ASE section.
Sincerely,
Tom
************************************************************
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* Associate Engineer - AM/FM System
* Southern Maryland Electric Co-op, Inc.
*
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Subject: Re: Text on curved surface-r13
From: sprinks@mindspring.com (Daniel C. Gassmann)
Date: Sun, 08 Dec 1996 20:32:41 GMT
"Sergei M. Komarov" wrote:
>>> Can AutoCad r13 get text to 'lay' on curved surface while conforming to
>>> the curved plane? Is there a lisp routine for this?
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> TC
>>>
>
>> There seems to be much confusion about what the origin poster wants. It sould be
>> possible to place a text on a surface, which may not be flat. Then you should be
>> able to extrude this text with a taper angle. This is needed for making
>> injection/casting molds and parts.
>> If one of the Support people would forward this to the "wish list" for R14
>> please...
>>
>> I have no convinient solution for this problem though.
>>
>> Frank
>>
>
>As far as I know, AutoCAD cannot do that! There is another commercial
>CAD/CAM system GeMMa 3D which can project letters onto any surface, as well
>the imported from AutoCAD one. If you want more information please email me.
>
>
If I understand the original posting correctly, I have seen a LISP
routine that can place text along an arc. The routine is called
ART.LSP and I have seen it in a few of the websites that offer free
downloads of many useful routines (Cad Shack, Cadalog, etc.)
hope this helps.
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Subject: Re: ***CONSUMER, Considering buying Iomega Zip Drive?***
From: claflin@stripe.Colorado.EDU (CLAFLIN DAVID)
Date: 8 Dec 1996 18:36:43 GMT
I haven't paid Iomega a cent in support, installation was a snap under
both Win 3.1 and Win NT 4.0, and we haven't had a single problem with
drive reliablitiy.
In article <19961207162900.LAA17225@ladder01.news.aol.com>,
wrote:
>Just go to AOL's Iomega page (keyword - IOMEGA) and then to message board.
>This thing has major installation and operating PROBLEMS with Win95 !
>
>If you are on Win95 (not the problem)or upgrading from 3.1 to 95, visit
>this message board and ask yourself the following question:
>
>Do I really want to spend $149-$199 on this drive plus $14.99 for almost
>inevitable "one-on-one LIVE technical support" - just to install it and 30
>min. phone wait time (Oh! don't forget a bottle of Tylenol) ???????
>
>OR, If you have it installed and working:
>Can I really trust my Projects ('STUFF') to be safely archived on this
>thing?
>
>After scanning the message board, my decision was EASY!!!!!
>
>bbee22@aol.com
--
David Claflin
Architect/AutoCAD Instructor
claflin@colorado.edu
Subject: Re: AutoCAD R14
From: waiwhite@zip.com.au (Ian A. White)
Date: Sun, 08 Dec 1996 20:24:41 GMT
On Sat, 07 Dec 1996 02:48:47 GMT, pben@midkan.com (Paul Benjamin)
wrote:
>I forgot that I also read that release 14 will also get Visual BASIC
>for Applications as a macro language. I am not sure if that means
>that AutoLISP goes or stays. Can anybody clear that up for me?
From what I have been told, AutoLISP will still be there.
Regards,
Ian A. White, CPEng
waiwhite@zip.com.au
WAI Engineering
Sydney 2000
Australia
NOTE: Junk e-mail will be returned as is to the sender or the sender's host system.
Subject: Re: Problems with Xref
From: vnestr@netvision.net.il (Vladimir Nesterovsky)
Date: Sun, 08 Dec 1996 20:31:26 GMT
Hello,
On 8 Dec 1996 18:39:48 GMT, - "DAGESH" wrote in
comp.cad.autocad:
>I have file 1.dwg that contain file 2.dwg as XREF.
>When I'm changing colors in 2.dwg and after than I'm opening 1.dwg ,
>I don't see changes in 1.dwg
>Please, help me with this problem.
>Thanks, Joseph
You're probably have VISRETAIN set to 1 in your 1.dwg.
This means -- retain all the visibility settings, like
colors, on/off status etc. So 1.dwg 'remembers' all the
settings and it doesn't matter what you do with 2.dwg.
You may get rid of this behaviour by setting VISRETAIN
to 0 in 1.dwg and reopening it.
Kind regards,
--
Vladimir Nesterovsky ADS/LISP/C/C++ etc
Subject: Re: "Render Problems with Windows 95"
From: beckmann@gis.de (Thomas Beckmann)
Date: Mon, 09 Dec 1996 05:49:00 GMT
Timothy Burford wrote:
>skhan@netrunner.net wrote:
>>
>> I upgraded my PC from windows 3.1 to windows 95 with a working
>> installation of Autocad 13. After the installation, the Render property
>> is unable to load. Some srot of error messsage in the command
>> area...ARXLOAD failed...or something like that.
>> Any Ideas on how to resolve this ?
>>
>> Regards
>> Sean
>Sean, I posted this to an earlier message. Remove your RENDER.CFG (y
>renaming it to something else) Then rerun a rendering, and it should
>recompile the render.cfg and work fine.
Hi, I've the same problem - but no render.cfg there at all ... :-(
Any hints ?
Thank you
Thomas Beckmann, Kiel, Germany
beckmann@gis.de
Subject: Re: mtext and ms word
From: Robert
Date: Sun, 08 Dec 1996 13:38:59 -0800
G Rajesh wrote:
>
> kalbes@aol.com wrote:
>
> >is there a way to get ms word to be my text editor? i don't think so
> >because ms word doesn't use ascii text. it keeps looking for a file that
> >it cant find. has anyone got this to work?
> >
> >thanks in advance
> >kathy straub
> >kalbes@aol.com
>
> I tested this out.
>
> Only the DOS version of R13 allows you to choose text editor, with the
> mtexted variable.
> In windows version I could not find any other way except to say Word to
> save as text only format.
>
You can not use Word as a text editor- I've tried. You may, however, use
WordPad as an editor. Under preference's miscell. tab find the word
"internal" and replace it with the pathname of the *.exe file you wish
to use for your ascii text editor. AutoCAD will create a temporary file
and open it each time to use it as the text swap file. It still is an
unacceptable solution, though, as it will not support indents, or column
formatted text, nor even full justification.
Subject: Re: Looking For Good 3D Program For AutoCAD
From: Peter Ireland
Date: Wed, 4 Dec 1996 10:56:37 +0000
In article <581lil$j8c@mongol.sasknet.sk.ca>,
kingh@mailhost.sk.sympatico.ca writes
>tim@iag.net (king) wrote:
>
>>I'm looking for a good 3D program to work with AutoCAD R13c4 for Windows95.
>>The program would have to be SIMPLE to use for a beginner.
>
>>Also looking for training classes for 3D drawing with AutoCAD.
>
>>I'm in the Orlando, Central Florida Area.
>
>>If anyone has any suggestions, please email your response.
>
>>Thanks,
>>Tim
>
>Try my website :
>
>The website is referenced to programs which are free to
>download with related links to other programs such as
>POV-Ray for Windows.
>--regards--
>Richard A. King
>
You could just give up Autocad and use Archicad - 3d from the start and
much easier to use. Rnedering's a bit crude, but with the Artlantis bolt
on very good; It also exports easily to MAX if you need serious
rendering. It just costs a bit.
--
Peter Ireland
peter@voidp.demon.co.uk
Subject: Re: ***CONSUMER, Considering buying Iomega Zip Drive?***
From: "Dave S."
Date: Sun, 08 Dec 1996 20:28:58 -0500
Uwe Kochnizki wrote:
>
> bbee22@aol.com wrote:
> >
> >
> I am so sorry for you, but I ...
>
> NONE had any problems up to date. All are running Windows
> 95 on Pentium 100 or 120 machines.
>
> You should check your ports or your hardware for any bad connections or
> for cheap controler cards.
>
> Can't help you with the Tylenol, sorry.
I have uesd the Ditto easy 3200 for about 6 months now with no problems
until this week. I regularly backup my workstation every week or so.
This week this error message appeared: "Tape is formatted and readable,
but there are invalid characters in the header, do you wish to format?"
or something along those lines. Any idea what happened?
Dave Sypolt, PS
Subject: ISPD-97 CFP (Dec 20 Submission Deadline)
From: ispd97@jade.cs.Virginia.EDU (1997 International Symposium on Physical Design)
Date: Mon, 9 Dec 1996 04:02:37 GMT
=============================================================================
Call for Papers
1997 International Symposium on Physical Design
April 14-16, 1997
Napa Valley, California
Sponsored by the ACM SIGDA in cooperation with
IEEE Circuits and Systems Society
The International Symposium on Physical Design provides a forum to
exchange ideas and promote research on critical areas related to the
physical design of VLSI systems. All aspects of physical design, from
interactions with behavior- and logic-level synthesis, to back-end
performance analysis and verification, are within the scope of the
Symposium. Target domains include semi-custom and full-custom IC, MCM
and FPGA based systems.
The Symposium is an outgrowth of the ACM/SIGDA Physical Design
Workshop. Following its five predecessors, the symposium will
highlight key new directions and leading-edge theoretical and
experimental contributions to the field. Accepted papers will be
published by ACM Press in the Symposium proceedings. Topics of
interest include but are not limited to:
1. Management of design data and constraints
2. Interactions with behavior-level synthesis flows
3. Interactions with logic-level (re-)synthesis flows
4. Analysis and management of power dissipation
5. Techniques for high-performance design
6. Floorplanning and building-block assembly
7. Estimation and point-tool modeling
8. Partitioning, placement and routing
9. Special structures for clock, power, or test
10. Compaction and layout verification
11. Performance analysis and physical verification
12. Physical design for manufacturability and yield
13. Mixed-signal and system-level issues.
IMPORTANT DATES: Submission deadline: December 20, 1996
Acceptance notification: February 1, 1997
Camera-ready (6 page limit) due: March 1, 1997
SUBMISSION OF PAPERS:
Authors should submit full-length, original, unpublished papers
(maximum 20 pages double spaced) along with an abstract of at most
200 words and contact author information (name, street/mailing address,
telephone/fax, e-mail).
Electronic submission via uuencoded e-mail is encouraged (single
postscript file, formatted for 8 1/2" x 11" paper, compressed with
Unix "compress" or "gzip''). Email to:
ispd97@ece.nwu.edu
Alternatively, send ten (10) copies of the paper to:
Prof. Majid Sarrafzadeh
Technical Program Chair, ISPD-97
Dept. of ECE, Northwestern University
2145 Sheridan Road, Evanston, IL 60208 USA
Tel 847-491-7378 / Fax 847-467-4144
SYMPOSIUM INFORMATION:
To obtain information regarding the Symposium or to be added to the
Symposium mailing list, please send e-mail to ispd97@cs.virginia.edu.
Information can also be found on the ISPD-97 web page:
http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~ispd97/
SYMPOSIUM ORGANIZATION:
General Chair: A. B. Kahng (UCLA and Cadence)
Past Chair: G. Robins (Virginia)
Steering Committee: J. Cohoon (Virginia), S. Dasgupta (Sematech),
S. M. Kang (Illinois), B. Preas (Xerox PARC)
Program Chair: M. Sarrafzadeh (Northwestern)
Keynote Address: T. C. Hu (UC San Diego) & E. S. Kuh (UC Berkeley)
Special Address: R. Camposano (Synopsys)
Publicity Chair: M. J. Alexander (Washington State)
Local Arrangements Chair: J. Lillis (UC Berkeley)
Technical Program Committee: C. K. Cheng (UC San Diego)
W. W.-M. Dai (UC Santa Cruz)
J. Frankle (Xilinx)
D. D. Hill (Synopsys)
M. A. B. Jackson (Motorola)
J. A. G. Jess (Eindhoven)
Y.-L. Lin (Tsing Hua)
C. L. Liu (Illinois)
M. Marek-Sadowska (UC Santa Barbara)
M. Sarrafzadeh (Northwestern)
C. Sechen (Washington)
K. Takamizawa (NEC)
M. Wiesel (Intel)
D. F. Wong (Texas-Austin)
E. Yoffa (IBM)
=============================================================================
Subject: Re: WANTED: AutoCAD 12 for Macintosh
From: Susan Sassoon
Date: Sun, 08 Dec 1996 22:19:49 -0500
Stan Staffeld wrote:
>
> I am interested in purchasing a licence for AutoCAD 12 for Macintosh.
>
> Please reply by email to:
>
> Stan Staffeld
> sstaff@sprynet.com
You are making a HUGE mistake!!
Autocad 12 for the Mac runs unbelievably slow! (I was forced to use it
at an office I worked at for a short time - one of the reasons I left
that office was Autocad's slow performance on the Mac.) I'd compare it
to running Autocad 12 for DOS on a 386. Unless you are purchasing this
for a hobby, or small drawings, I'd recommend buying Autocad 12 for Dos
or Windows - even if you have to buy a new computer! Even a cheap 486
with 8 megs of RAM would do better than the Mac! If you don't want to
buy a new PC, try a different CAD package. The 2 just do not go together
well.
Autocad 12 for the Mac will not run on Power PCs, and Autocad 13 is not
available for the Mac at all.
Good luck,
--
:) :) :) :) Susan Sassoon :) :) susan@specdata.com :) :) :) :)
Home Page: http://www.elsfl.com/susan/resume.htm
Subject: ACAD R12 c4 For Sale
From: mike Carpenter
Date: Sun, 08 Dec 1996 21:45:52 -0800
Hi:
I have a copy of AutoCAD R12 c4 for Windows for sale. It is on original
disks. but, there are no books, or manuals, no licence or anything, only
the disks. The licence for various reasons that I do not want to go into
now, cannot be transfered. I am willing to sell the disks at a
reasonalbly low price do to all the missing items. If you are interested
please E-mail me back.
Thanks
