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Steve Knopf wrote:
> 
> can anyone point me in the right direction for converting an Autocad mat
> into a tiger file? Our fire dept. has a program called FLAME that uses
> tiger db but the available files are 10 yrs out of date, HELP!!!!
> 
> thanks in advance (with more to follow)
> --
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> 
> Steve Knopf
> sknopf@dcn.davis.ca.us
> City of Davis PW
> Davis Ca 95616
Hi Steve;
One of my co-workers is writing the TIGER driver for our GeoMorph(tm)
GIS/CAD data translation product.  I'm not sure where he's at, but he'll
be needing Beta testers sometime soon.  As a Beta tester, we'd set you
up with everything you need.  
His name is Pete Payne, and I let him know you might be contacting him.
His name and contact info is:
  email:  ppayne@aztechcon.com
  phone:  (414)499-0533
I hope we can help.
Don.

I've heard that there is an easy way to convert blocks to shape files.
Anyone know just how to do this?  Some third party utility?  Something
built into AutoCAD?
Thanks,
-rs

According to what I've read, AutoCAD LT for Windows 95 will
also run under Windows NT.  So I don't think your dealer
knows what he's talking about.
Take a look at http://www.autodesk.com and you can probably
get an "official" answer.

With adroit appendages floating frantically athwart the
electromechanical ciphering device > endeavored to convey the supervening
erudition to the espying public:
>Need to find a quicker way to change precision of dimensions.  Currently
>I am changing the style to a style of the right precision.  Another
>method is to just wade through the ddmodify command (what a drag).  Does
>anyone have a quick command line driven routine that will permit
>multiple selections of dimensions and change their precision? (even a
>multiple select change dim style may be ok)
>Thanks folks . . . .
As mentioned in other follow-ups the sysvars LUPREC & DIMDEC affect
the decimal precision of your dimensions. In addition the variable
DIMTDEC affects dimensional tolerances and AUPREC affects angular
precision.
You can make it all very easy on yourself and download my program
AUTODIM.LSP from my web site. Updating/changing dimensions
takes only one keystroke and then picking.
Let me know if you take me up on this and your opinion.
-- 
Patrick Hughes
Engineered Design Solutions
e-mail duhvinci@rockford.com
homepage http://www.rockford.com/duhvinci
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* Machine design, detail & build
* Cam design & manufacturing
* Machine animation
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Hi
   If anyone knows where I can find Calcomp Drv for AcadLT 3.0  please
let know.
thank you
antnee

With Autolisp I use a function to update an existing block like this...
	(command "insert" "blockname=" nil)
 How do I do the same thing in ADS?  The problem seems to be entering the
 CTRL-C that the insert command wants.

With adroit appendages floating frantically athwart the
electromechanical ciphering device <"David E. Gonsalves"
> endeavored to convey the supervening erudition
to the espying public:
>I don't know if this will work in LT, but if you can modify your menus like
>you can in regular ACAD, try inserting something like this:
>[Block insert]^c^cinsert;[blockname_goes_here];\;;;
>into one of your Popdown menus.  The "\" allows you to pick your insert
>point, then the rest of the command is finished out for you.  Be very
>careful with the placement of the semicolons, make certain you use no
>spaces.  The [Block insert] part you can name anything you like, it's the
>commands afterwards that do everything.
>I have no idea if this will work in LT, but hope it does.
>David E. Gonsalves, LSIT
>delliottg@olywa.net
I also don't know about LT but David's suggestion is good.
If you add another "\" where David suggests [blockname...]
you can specify a block name when prompted.
-- 
Patrick Hughes
Engineered Design Solutions
e-mail duhvinci@rockford.com
homepage http://www.rockford.com/duhvinci
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* Machine design, detail & build
* Cam design & manufacturing
* Machine animation
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Bob Snead  wrote:
>I am having a problem with getting my R12 menu pull downs to work in R13.
>I loaded my old R12 menu as a partial menu in R13. I inserted the two 
>pops in question in the menu at positions 11 and 12. The menus show up 
>and cascade down with all the correct info. I can insert blocks from the 
>menu that are insert macro's but the problem occurs when I select an 
>icon/image. The dialog box appears with all blanks. I have the slide libs 
>in a directory in the path. The R13 manuals are hard to understand. 
>Anyone have any suggestions?
I tried to do the same with WinNT4.0 and R13c4a.  It appears that
partial menus will not support the icon images in custom partial
menus.  I then copied the acad.mnu  and editted it to include the
icon/images and it works fine under WinNT4.0 and R13c4a.  I hope they
support the partial menus with custom icon/images in the future.  If
you find another solution I would definately appreciate being included
in the solution using partial menus.

With adroit appendages floating frantically athwart the
electromechanical ciphering device  endeavored to convey the supervening erudition to the espying
public:
>As mentioned in other follow-ups the sysvars LUPREC & DIMDEC affect
>the decimal precision of your dimensions. In addition the variable
>DIMTDEC affects dimensional tolerances and AUPREC affects angular
>precision.
>You can make it all very easy on yourself and download my program
>AUTODIM.LSP from my web site. Updating/changing dimensions
>takes only one keystroke and then picking.
>Let me know if you take me up on this and your opinion.
Sorry, neglected to mention this is for R13 - but if anyone would like
R12 drop me an e-mail and I'll send it to you or make available on my
web site.
-- 
Patrick Hughes
Engineered Design Solutions
e-mail duhvinci@rockford.com
homepage http://www.rockford.com/duhvinci
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* Machine design, detail & build
* Cam design & manufacturing
* Machine animation
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When in AutoCAD R13c4a under WinNT4.0,  I find that I lose my mapping
to the network occasionally when opening a new file or when inserting
a wblock.  I found that I can get around this by clicking the
"network" button and then clicking "ok" and it resets the mapping to
the network.  This problem only occurs in Acad - not any other
software.
This is a nuisance problem.  Does anyone know how to correct this one?

I am running Autocad LT on NT 4.0 no program just run setup but let me tell
you this if you really want a Cad package like autocad LT and better same
price buy Imagineer Techincal from Intergraph corp. It will do every thing
that autocad lT will do and more you can open dwg,dgn,dxf files with the
file open command and save files from Imagineer to dwg,dgn,dxf thats what I
would buy.
Sean Linnihan
Splinnih@ingr.com
dmitzel@computerland.net wrote in article
<32ACAA85.71E3@computerland.net>...
> AutoCAD LT users:
> 
> According to my dealer, Autodesk does not make a version of AutoCAD Lt 
> for Windows NT.  Is this true?  If anyone has a version, please let me 
> know.  Or if you have configured your Win95 version to run successfully 
> under NT.
> 
> I need to buy ACAD LT soon, but want NT platform.
> 
> TIA
> 

Silly question but how do you dimension radius's internal so that the 
text and arrow are inside?
Cheers Chris.M.

Hello,
I'm using ASE with ORACLE on NT WORKSTATION machine.
All software are :
        NT Workstation 3.51, service pack #4
        ORACLE server 7.3
        SQL*Net v2
        AutoCAD r13c4a
ORACLE is tested with SQL*Plus, it's run ok, and I can connect
to my database from my NT Workstation.
When I try to connect to my database under AutoCAD, with ASEADMIN
command, I have this message :
        FILE ERROR
        Cannot find ORA7WIN.DLL
and, after clik OK button :
        Can't execute 16 bit Windows applications.
Of course, I think my ASI.INI file is wrong, but where ?
I've read all litterature and all http://www.autodesk.com/support/
about ASE ; I can't find where it's wrong.
My ASI.INI is :
        ...
        [ENVIRONMENTS.WinNT]
        ITD=
        ...
        [ITD]
        Driver          =       ORA7WDRV
        Base            =       ITD
        Default_Catalog =       information_schema
        TimeOut         =       7
        ...
        [ASE_CATALOGS]
        ITD             =       information_schema
Thanks for your help.
Christian.

Please help - I'm at a lost on this one.
End User:  
For some reason, when I open a drawing file on the network, by default
it makes it a read-only file. There is is a box that can be clicked on
to disable this feature each time, but I would like to disable it
permanently.  When I open a file on my local drive it is not
"Read-Only". 
Note:  End User rights and network file attributes are read/write to
the files and directories involved.
I did not experience this problem with R12 DOS.  I thought at first
this was a new system variable (DWGWRITE) with R13, but checked and it
does exist in R12 DOS.  I tried changing the setting and it had no
effect even after exiting AutoCAD and restarting AutoCAD.  AutoDesk's
online help says it will change based on setting it at "0" for
read-only and "1" for read/write opening of files, but it had no
effect.   None of our settings have changed here at the office.
Has anyone else seen this one or have a solution?

akirk@vcn.bc.ca (Andrew Kirk) wrote:
>I have blocks created by a civil engineering application with and
>attribute specified to 3 decimal points.
>
>Our drafting standards require this block attribute to be displayed to 2
>decimal points.  I have tried redefining the block with UNITS set to 2
>decimal points (using the lisp ATTREDEF supplied by Adesk), however the
>attributes carried over remain displayed at 3 decimal points.
>
>If anyone knows of a way to round off an attribute in a block, other then
>editing them individually, I would be gratefull.
>
>Andrew Kirk, Drafting Technician, City of Coquitlam, British Columbia,
>Canada
>Civil Engineering, Surveying, Mapping
>akirk@mh.gov.coquitlam.bc.ca
>
>
As the Attribut is a text data and you have typed it while inserting
there is no automatic way to do this. You have to write a lisp code to
do this job. Look at any of the sites advertised like
http://www.bulidingweb.com/cadsyst
or
http://www.cadalog.com
etc., for a similar program do the necessary modifications.
G.Rajesh
//Autodesk Product Support on the Internet//

"Alka Dighe"  wrote:
>I am a high school student, and my teacher is having trouble with his
>cd-rom drive. It will not run through the Autodesk Autocad hardware lock,
>and the hardware lock needs to be removed for it to operate correctly.
>Although, if the hardware lock is removed, Autocad will not run. The
>version of Autocad is release 13, the external cdrom needs to be installed
>to install release 13a of Autocad, wich uis on a CD. If you can help me,
>could you please email me at "tdighe@pclogiconline.com". Thank You.
>
>
Dear Alka,
While installation AutoCad does not need to have the hardware lock 
on the system. Just connect the external cdrom drive and install the
AutoCAD first. Then reboot the system and and insert the hardware lock.
Now you can start working on the AutoCAD.
G.Rajesh
//Autodesk Product Support on the Internet//

"Alka Dighe"  wrote:
>I am a high school student, and my teacher is having trouble with his
>cd-rom drive. It will not run through the Autodesk Autocad hardware lock,
>and the hardware lock needs to be removed for it to operate correctly.
>Although, if the hardware lock is removed, Autocad will not run. The
>version of Autocad is release 13, the external cdrom needs to be installed
>to install release 13a of Autocad, wich uis on a CD. If you can help me,
>could you please email me at "tdighe@pclogiconline.com". Thank You.
>
>
Dear Alka,
While installation AutoCad does not need to have the hardware lock 
on the system. Just connect the external cdrom drive and install the
AutoCAD first. Then reboot the system and and insert the hardware lock.
Now you can start working on the AutoCAD.
G.Rajesh
//Autodesk Product Support on the Internet//

loeb  wrote:
>I'm running R13C4A under NT4.0(SP1) and find that inconsistently (though
>usually) when I try to save a file which I have opened, acad complains
>that the file is read only.  If I create a new file, I can only save it
>once before I get this error dialog.  This happens on both my local
>drives and network drives.  Unfortunatly, it does not happen everytime
>(but most of the time) which shouts out "BUG" to me.  Any clues would be
>appreciated.
>
>mailto:loeb@microtech.com
>
This is a known problem and use the DWGWRITE system variable inside 
AutoCAD and set it to 1.
You can also add this setting in the Acad.lsp file as a startup.
G.Rajesh
//Autodesk Product Support on the Internet//

Alan Rhoden  wrote:
>Need to find a quicker way to change precision of dimensions.  Currently
>I am changing the style to a style of the right precision.  Another
>method is to just wade through the ddmodify command (what a drag).  Does
>anyone have a quick command line driven routine that will permit
>multiple selections of dimensions and change their precision? (even a
>multiple select change dim style may be ok)
>
>Thanks folks . . . .
>
>
Boss,
You have not said the version of Autocad you are using. In the case of R12 
you can use the decimal places accuracy by using the LUPREC variable.
This will control the number of decimal places. say 4 digits or 3 digits.
In the case of rounding off you are looking for then you must use the
DIMRND variable in R12.Then you can use the DIM  command and use the Update
command and say all. Now all the dimension will get updated.
Whereas in the case of R13 you must use the DDIM command and goto the 
Annotation section and click on the UNITS under the Primary units and you 
have to set the Tolerance over there. In case of Rounding off goto the lower
right corner below and set it.
Then you have to save the style and use the Dim , update command. 
Now you will get the decimal places of accuracy you were looking for.
G.Rajesh
//Autodesk Product Support on the Internet//

Trey Wheeler  wrote:
>Can anyone tell me what I need to do to get AutoCAD 13 Dos to print to
>an HP 820 Cse Deskjet?  HP doesnt seem to have any drivers, nor does
>AutoDesk.
>
Trey,
Try using the HP deskjet/Paintjet option under the plotter configuration
and see whether you could take plot.
Try also using the HP-GL/2 option also.
G.Rajesh
//Autodesk Product Support on the Internet//

dieppe1@nbnet.nb.ca (Etudiant) wrote:
>Hello!
>
>I'm in a quandry....I have to convert 4 .dwg drawings (AutoCAD, R12) to
>a compatible format for  viewing on Powerpoint program....Can this be
>done? How? *puzzled*
>
>I'm new at this....so....laymen's terms would help...*smile*
>
>Gin
>
Gin,
There are many ways. You can use the Print screen and use it. This is the 
best way .You have not said which version of AutoCAD R12 dos or windows.
In the case of DOS add the device=c:\acad12\pharlap.386 at the [386Enh]
section in the system.ini and then reboot. Now start the AutoCAD inside 
windows and use the print screen.
For this you must be having R12c3 dos .
G.Rajesh
//Autodesk Product Support on the Internet//

Chris Kant wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I hope this does not appear to be off topic but I need some help.
> 
> I have inherited an ethernet network with approx 60 Macs, 10 unix boxes,
> and a lonely single PC.
> 
> We purchased a Calcomp Techjet plotter which the Macs see as a printer
> over the network with very little difficulty using Photoshop, FormZ etc.
> 
> However, I am having a lot of difficulty to get the unix boxes and the
> lonely PC to print successfully to the plotter. The unix and PC machines
> are running Autocad R12_c3 for unix and Auticad R12 for DOS respectively.
> 
> The plotter has been allocated an ip number and hostname on the ethernet.
> 
> The unix host machine can successfully send a .ps or .eps exported file
> but I can not get the config menu in Autocad to accept any setup from
> within Autocad - anybody any suggestions. The printcap file and virtual
> device driver appear to work ok via lp. Can this config within Autocad be
> routed some way to lp or am I missing somehting obviuos in the config
> menu?
> 
> As for the PC on the network is there some way I can set up Autocad
> through WfW3.11 so that it can print to the plotter over the ethernet
> network? Or can it be done via DOS directly over the ethernet? - or would
> it have to route through a unix host?
> 
> I have had no sucess from Autodesk who suggested I speak to our dealer who
> have not responded so far with anything very useful.
> 
> I have had lot of very useful help from our specialist unix team to get as
> far as we have.
> 
> Any assistance/help/advice would be greatly appreciated.
> 
> Chris
> 
> -------------------------------------------------------------
> Chris Kant                        email: chrisk@caad.ed.ac.uk
> Dept. of Architecture
> University of Edinburgh
> Scotland
> -------------------------------------------------------------
Chris
First of all you should not have all your devices sending data directly
to the plotter via ethernet. This creates a lot of extra data on your
network.  You should set up a spooler on one server and connect all the
other devices to the spooler.  LP will work but for a cross platform
network like yours I would set up the spooler on one of the UNIX boxes
and make it an NFS spooler. NFS will allow all other platforms to print
to as long as you purchase the NFS client software for each platform. 
NFS will evan work on your DOS and WFW3.11 machines.  I have been using
Hummingbirds NFS client software because it supports both NFS file and
print sharing.
Good Luck,
John Malotky
AutoCAD, NT, UNIX Expert.
Innovative Computer Solutions
http://www.execpc.com/~innovate

Morten Warankov wrote:
> The ingenuity of Autocad users never stops,
That is because AutoCad is not going to give them what they need or want
without a fight.
Stephen Pester
Email:
Work: steve-p@s-k.com
http://www.s-k.com It's not done but were getting there.
Home: slpcep@dca.net