Subject: Re:Looking for Corel to Autocad conversion
From: hopltd@giasdl01.vsnl.net.in (G Rajesh)
Date: 17 Dec 1996 06:56:20 -0800
irwin004@maroon.tc.umn.edu (Robbo) wrote:
>Hi,
>
> Can anyone recomend the best way to convert Corel Draw (.cdr) files
>into Autocad (.dwg or .dxf) files so that the text gets converted as
>text?
> When I convert the files (which have a lot of text) into Autocad, I
>have to retype all of the text so that it is recognized as text and
>not just a bunch of lines.
> Are there any utilities or tricks to avoid this?
>
>Thanks,
> Robbo
>
Robbo,
Use the PASTECLIP command in R13 and select the option as AutoCAD Entities,
which will convert the portion to AutoCAD text entities. However you must
have the text as one step while copying it to the clipboard and the objects
as another step .This works fine with R13c4.
G.Rajesh
//Autodesk Product Support on the Internet//
Subject: Re: Canon BJC-4550 autocad drivers?
From: rscarr@ix.netcom.com (Robert S. Carroll)
Date: Tue, 17 Dec 1996 19:09:55 GMT
rscarr@ix.netcom.com (Robert S. Carroll) wrote:
>martineng@aol.com (MARTIN ENG) wrote:
>>I'm looking for a Canon BJC-4550 driver that will work with Autocad R12
>>Dos!
>>The BJC-4550 is a relatively new plotter/printer which advertises toward
>>the Autocad user, however, Canon does not support with the much needed
>>drivers!
>>I have contacted Canon and they suggest Autodesk is responsible for
>>supporting the BJC-4550. Who can help me?
>>MARTIN ENG@AOL.COM
>Select the Canon Bubble Jet driver and it will give you a list of Canon
>printers. Configure for the BJC 600 printer.
Martin,
I wanted to appologize to you (and anyone else who read the above post), you
need to configure AutoCad for the BJC 800 printer, not the BJC 600 which I
posted.
Sincerely,
Robert S. Carroll
rscarr@ix.netcom.com
Subject: Re: What's in a Job Title ?
From: dave lawson <71202.1577@compuserve.com>
Date: Tue, 17 Dec 1996 15:11:10 -0800
Rob Russell wrote:
>
> Glenn Thomson bashed its head on a keyboard, resulting in:
> : I'd like to know what locomotive engineers and stationary engineers call
> : themselves in your part of Ontario, then.
>
> As in the rest of Canada, "locomotive engineers" call themselves
> "hoggers." As a P.Eng with the railway, my father always went out of his
> way to correct people that called them engineers by telling them it was
> pronounced differently (ingin-eers or something) but they call themselves
> hoggers.
>
> Whether it is common practice or not, still doesn't make it right. The
> PEO (and other organizations) should make more of an effort to dissuade
> the improper use of the term "engineer."
>
> -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
> Robert Russell \ / Rob_Russell@Ottawa.Com
> Carleton University x--o8o--x 2nd Year, Mech & Aero Eng.
> http://wabakimi.carleton.ca/~rrussell
> Director of Publications, Carleton Student Engineering Society
> -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
> "No harm was done to my mental well-being." -- erdem@engsoc
It sounds like hoggers is a pretty good term for engineers.
Dave
Subject: Re: Cancel Command??
From: duhvinci@rockford.com (Patrick Hughes)
Date: Tue, 17 Dec 1996 21:02:37 GMT
With adroit appendages floating frantically athwart the
electromechanical ciphering device <"Tim Bridge" >
endeavored to convey the supervening erudition to the espying public:
>I have just started to use ver13 for Win 95 and I have found that I cannot
>use the cancel command anymore. The Control+C is now the same as all other
>windows commands, COPY. I have looked in help about the changed and deleted
>commands and found nothing.
>Is there something I am missing or is there a new Cancel command?
>Thanks for any help.
>--
>Tim
>TKBridge@cris.com
Tim,
In addition to the other replies - you can configure r13 to respnd to
a control+c to issue a cancel, its
Preferences/System/Keystrokes/Classic
Also, if you did a full install you should have a "What's new" tour
that will detail many of the differences.
--
Patrick Hughes
Engineered Design Solutions
e-mail duhvinci@rockford.com
homepage http://www.rockford.com/duhvinci
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* Cam design & manufacturing
* Machine animation
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Subject: Re: Bartz #3 on Highest-paid Women CEO's list
From: rkirstine@micron.com (Rodney Kirstine)
Date: Tue, 17 Dec 1996 19:25:59 GMT
"Tony Tanzillo" wrote:
> Working Woman magazine's 1996 list of the 20 best paid women in
>corporate America, as compiled from public companies' reports.
>
> 1. Linda Wachner -- chairwoman, CEO of Warnaco Group, $11.16 million.
> 2. Jill Barad -- CEO of Mattel. $6.17 million.
> 3. Carol Bartz -- chairwoman, CEO and president of Autodesk. $5.51
>million.
-clip-
The company I work for had a net profit of 590 million on gross sales
of 3.7 billion last year and our CEO made under 2 million (including
bonus & stock). For the same year, Autodesk netted 87 million on
gross sales of 530 million and look at what Carol Bartz made.
Apparently our company is way under paying our CEO???
Rodney Kirstine
Mechanical Engineer
Systems Integration, A Division of Micron Technology
rkirstine@micron.com
Subject: Re: Softdesk > Autodesk ?
From: Scott Drager
Date: Tue, 17 Dec 1996 15:12:28 -0600
Tony Tanzillo wrote:
>
> Thanks for making my point even more clear.
>
> The inferiority of most AutoCAD-based applications lies in
> the long-neglected shortcomings of the underlying platform
> (AutoCAD), not in the add-on applications. If you think that
> Softdesk's AutoArchitect is technologically advanced, then
> you are a victim of your own ignorance.
>
> --
> /*******************************************************/
> /* Tony Tanzillo Design Automation Consulting */
> /* Expert AutoCAD Programming and Customization */
> /* --------------------------------------------------- */
> /* Co-Author of Maximizing AutoCAD R13 and */
> /* Maximizing AutoLISP for AutoCAD R13 */
> /* --------------------------------------------------- */
> /* Contributing Author, CADENCE Magazine */
> /* --------------------------------------------------- */
> /* 71241.2067@compuserve.com */
> /* tony.tanzillo@worldnet.att.net */
> /* http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/tonyt */
> /*******************************************************/
>
> Tim Kirwan wrote in article <32B6FFF4.7BE1@eazy.net>...
> > i think "Tony Tanzillo" has finally lost his mind, the merger between
> > autodesk and softdesk is the best thing that could possibly happen to
> > our industry. finally software wannabe's like eaglepoint will have to
> > stop making an inferior product and go back where they came from.
> >
Let's bite the hand that feeds us, huh?
Subject: Re: Bartz #3 on Highest-paid Women CEO's list
From: "Tony Tanzillo"
Date: 17 Dec 1996 21:40:37 GMT
Depends on your point of view. If you consider it from
the perspective of what the #2 person at Walt Disney
was given as "severence" pay (~90,000,000), then all US
CEO's are grossly underpaid.
I don't believe that any executive should be rewarded for
causing their customers massive amounts of grief and millions
of dollars in lost productivity, by deliberately releasing
a product which they knew all too well was unfit for market.
--
/*******************************************************/
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/* Expert AutoCAD Programming and Customization */
/* --------------------------------------------------- */
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/* Maximizing AutoLISP for AutoCAD R13 */
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Rodney Kirstine wrote in article
<32b6f1e8.105933444@news.micron.com>...
> "Tony Tanzillo" wrote:
>
> > Working Woman magazine's 1996 list of the 20 best paid women in
> >corporate America, as compiled from public companies' reports.
> >
> > 1. Linda Wachner -- chairwoman, CEO of Warnaco Group, $11.16 million.
> > 2. Jill Barad -- CEO of Mattel. $6.17 million.
> > 3. Carol Bartz -- chairwoman, CEO and president of Autodesk. $5.51
> >million.
>
> -clip-
>
> The company I work for had a net profit of 590 million on gross sales
> of 3.7 billion last year and our CEO made under 2 million (including
> bonus & stock). For the same year, Autodesk netted 87 million on
> gross sales of 530 million and look at what Carol Bartz made.
> Apparently our company is way under paying our CEO???
>
> Rodney Kirstine
> Mechanical Engineer
> Systems Integration, A Division of Micron Technology
> rkirstine@micron.com
>
Subject: Re: Softdesk > Autodesk ?
From: "Tony Tanzillo"
Date: 17 Dec 1996 21:43:13 GMT
Which hand is that? The shortcomings of most AutoCAD add-on
applications is the fault of Autodesk vis a vis the long-term
neglect of it's programmable API's.
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/* --------------------------------------------------- */
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/* Maximizing AutoLISP for AutoCAD R13 */
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/* Contributing Author, CADENCE Magazine */
/* --------------------------------------------------- */
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Scott Drager wrote in article
<32B70CBC.2C12@ix.netcom.com>...
> Tony Tanzillo wrote:
> >
> > Thanks for making my point even more clear.
> >
> > The inferiority of most AutoCAD-based applications lies in
> > the long-neglected shortcomings of the underlying platform
> > (AutoCAD), not in the add-on applications. If you think that
> > Softdesk's AutoArchitect is technologically advanced, then
> > you are a victim of your own ignorance.
> >
> > --
> > /*******************************************************/
> > /* Tony Tanzillo Design Automation Consulting */
> > /* Expert AutoCAD Programming and Customization */
> > /* --------------------------------------------------- */
> > /* Co-Author of Maximizing AutoCAD R13 and */
> > /* Maximizing AutoLISP for AutoCAD R13 */
> > /* --------------------------------------------------- */
> > /* Contributing Author, CADENCE Magazine */
> > /* --------------------------------------------------- */
> > /* 71241.2067@compuserve.com */
> > /* tony.tanzillo@worldnet.att.net */
> > /* http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/tonyt */
> > /*******************************************************/
> >
> > Tim Kirwan wrote in article
<32B6FFF4.7BE1@eazy.net>...
> > > i think "Tony Tanzillo" has finally lost his mind, the merger between
> > > autodesk and softdesk is the best thing that could possibly happen to
> > > our industry. finally software wannabe's like eaglepoint will have to
> > > stop making an inferior product and go back where they came from.
> > >
> Let's bite the hand that feeds us, huh?
>
Subject: regions and solids and hideplot
From: pointpre
Date: Tue, 17 Dec 1996 16:06:08 -0800
i've been trying to find a good way to mask out the areas behind my text
and have found that the easiest and most stable way to do this is to
create regions around them and use the hidelines option in the plot menu,
but now all my solids, fills, and plines with widths are nothing but
outlines, does anyone know of a way around this.
also on another subject, is there anyway to create a viewport in a shape
besides a rectangle, maybe any pline? sometimes i think autodesk is way
out of touch with what thier clients might really want.
any help would be greatly appreciated,
gerrit speulstra
pointpre@skylands.net
Subject: Re: Custom Menu Button; where is the pic?
From: wmill@execpc.com (Tony T)
Date: Tue, 17 Dec 1996 22:24:43 GMT
On Mon, 16 Dec 1996 18:07:36 -0600, Jay Garnett
wrote:
>This appears to be a bug. I've had the same problem
>w/ c3 thru c4a.
>
>Somehow, when you reload AutoCAD after making toolbar changes,
>it decides to recompile the mns file, which tends to screw up the
>names of the button icons. You end up with either a smiley face
>or a blank button.
>Your best bet is to exit AutoCAD and manually edit the mns file
>yourself.
Thanks for the response, although I havent a clue how to do what you
suggest;
Thank ye!
Tony
>
>Tony T wrote:
>>
>> Hey all,
>>
>> I created some custom menu buttons in Acad, and they looked just
>> peachy. Only thing is, when I restarted Acad, they were blank; they
>> still work correctly, but there is no picture on them.
>>
>> Anyone know what gives here?
>>
>> Tony
>>
>> AutocadLT 95 BTW>
>>
>> ********************************
>> "Never laugh at live dragons..."
>> J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit
>> *********************************
>
>--
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>Homepage http://www.enteract.com/~jgarnett/lispfactory.htm
>On-line Resume http://www.enteract.com/~jgarnett/resume.htm
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*********************************
Subject: Re: Learning AutoCAD
From: pointpre
Date: Tue, 17 Dec 1996 16:46:51 -0800
Jennifer Niebergall wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> Does anyone have any suggestions for learning CAd? I have a background
> in Canvas and Adobe products, mostly illustrator...any good books out
> there?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Jennifer
since i'm not sure what program you want to learn (i'm assuming acad,
since you posted here), i've found mastering autocad 13 by george omura
published by sybex inc. to be the easiest to understand, a couple of the
magazines that are devoted to cad have helped me once in a while such as
cadence & cadalyst. still acad is a lot less user freindly than any of
the graphics packages i've seen out there, so good luck
gerrit
pointpre@skylands.net
Subject: Re: Want ACAD R13
From: Dave Geesaman
Date: Tue, 17 Dec 1996 17:20:46 -0500
Brian Corbin wrote:
>
> Ward Stockwell wrote:
> >
> > I need an Upgradable student copy of ACAD r13. Does anyone where I
> > might find one?
>
> There is no such thing as an upgradable student copy
Actually, there is. Autodesk sells a full educational version which
can be upgraded for a student-upgrade rate (provided one is still a
student). When the owner graduates, etc., the difference in cost
between the acad. and the full version can then be paid to make it a
valid professional copy. I have only ever seen this upgradeable version
at http://www.journeyed.com and their price is about $900 (US) for R13,
and $1400 for Mech. Desktop. Autodesk also licenses to Addison-Wesley,
who sells R13 (not upgradeable) for about $350, and can be found at many
educational resellers. All of these put those crippling "Educational
version" banners on the plots, which makes me happy I still use the
Student R12 version.
Dave
Subject: Re: best electrical engineering cad
From: doug_mckean@paragon-networks.com (Doug)
Date: Tue, 17 Dec 1996 17:22:20 -0500
In article , dated
16 Dec 1996 16:06:58 GMT, ralphus of
rbarnes@postbox.acs.ohio-state broke his fingers while
typing ---
->I have a father that wants an electrical engineering cad program (for win
->3.1 or dos) for xmas. I know a lot about music and sound software but I
->don't have the faintest idea of what is out there in the realm of cad. I
->have only $140 to spend and need something that will let him draw diagrams
->of circuit boards and such. It doesn't have to be fancy, it just has to
->have symbols for capacitors and resistors etc. I have looked around at
->computer software stores and just received blank looks from the workers
->(go figure). If anyone can e-mail me a recomendation for an appropriate
->cad it will be much appreciated. If you also have information on how to
->contact the company to order the software that will be doubly appreciated.
->
->Thanx in advance.
->
->rbarnes@postbox.acs.ohio-state.edu
->
I'm not sure what application your father wants.
Aside from what others have said, let me go the other way.
You could get M-Cap (student version is about $50) at your
nearest university that offers Electrical Engineering. It
not only offers a side range of symbols, but allows one
(even at the student level) a degree of simulation. The
engine behind it is a Spice engine.
Aside from this, student coops offer "student" versions
of software which are really evaluation packages in
disguise. Take a walk around the software section of
a University bookstore to see what's there. If anything
you'll get familiarized.
Subject: Re: Network lock error
From: apt@cix.co.uk (Paul Taylor)
Date: 17 Dec 1996 23:04:55 GMT
In article <32B6E94B.6201@unlinfo.unl.edu>, mforeman@unlinfo.unl.edu (Matt
Foreman) wrote:
> I am a helpdesk consultant at the University of Nebraska who is trying
> to help a student install ACAD r13c4. He has done about 10
> reinstalls, and we did one here in the office, with the same result:
>
> 'FATAL ERROR: Network lock error. No nework license servers on
> network. Network lock device is not functioning or is improperly
> installed.'
>
> We wre installing on an IBM 365X laptop machine that is not connected
> to a network at the helpdesk office, but can be connected to the
> College of Arch. network.
>
> Any suggestions that will help us get this running?
>
> I will post responses, please e-mail if possible to
> mforeman@unlinfo.unl.edu.
>
> Thank you
Despite the helpful error message, Autocad is actually telling you that it
doesn't have a hardware lock plugged into the parallel port. The reason
for this message is that if it can't find one plugged in the back, it
looks for a network lock instead, and if it can't find one of them, it
gives the error message.
Educational versions of Autocad are always supplied with a hardware lock.
Hope this helps....
Regards
Paul Taylor
(also mailed)
Subject: Re: Milwaukee WI Users Group
From: jeeper@halcyon.com (Dennis Shinn)
Date: Tue, 17 Dec 1996 23:41:33 GMT
John Malotky wrote:
>We are looking to form a group that is TRULY a users group, Not a sales
>tool for dealers etc.
John ... I don't question your motivation in the least but ....:
>--
>John Malotky
>AutoCAD, Windows NT, UNIX, TCP/IP expert.
>Innovative Computer Solutions
>http://www.execpc.com/~innovate
There's nothing wrong with dealer sponsorship of user groups. In fact we, SAUG
would probably not exist if it weren't for the support of the folks at Robert
McNeel & Associates.
Dennis Shinn
Seattle AutoCAD User Group
SAUG-BBS [206] 644-7115 [PCGNet]9:517/215
CAD Systems manager/GLY Construction
