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Subject: Long time to plot drawing with AIX AutoCAD, HELP! -- From: davidm@ionet.net (David M. McCollough)
Subject: Re: Can LISP routines be loaded when Autocad starts ? -- From: waiwhite@zip.com.au (Ian A. White)
Subject: Re: WinNT4/ Acad13 Capacity problem -- From: Bob Stirling
Subject: Globally Change Attribute Text Size -- From: Bob Stirling

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Subject: Long time to plot drawing with AIX AutoCAD, HELP!
From: davidm@ionet.net (David M. McCollough)
Date: 19 Dec 1996 01:08:58 GMT
I have an RS/6000 running IBM AIX 4.2 with 128 meg of memory.
I am running AutoCAD R13_C4 on this computer.
I have a plotter configured using the Standard postscript driver supplied with 
AutoCAD.
I have one drawing approx 80k (approx 1600 enitities) in size that takes 13 
minutes to plot to a file.
Why ?
All of my other drawings are approx the same size and take anywhere from 30 
seconds to 2 minutes to plot.
There is nothing special about this drawing. It contains some text, lines, 
plines. No hatches, dimensions. All of the text in the drawing is using the 
TXT font file.
Why does this drawing take so long to plot ?
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Subject: Re: Can LISP routines be loaded when Autocad starts ?
From: waiwhite@zip.com.au (Ian A. White)
Date: Thu, 19 Dec 1996 01:47:12 GMT
On 18 Dec 1996 16:09:53 GMT, robwilhelm@aol.com (ROBWILHELM) wrote:
>Is it possible to modify a file, so that when I start Autocad, a couple of
>LISP routines that I use often can be loaded automtically ?   
>Thanks...Rob
Yes they can.
Simply add the (load "filename") statements to your ACAD.LSP file.  If
one does not exist, create it in youe SUPPORT directory.
Regards,
Ian A. White, CPEng
waiwhite@zip.com.au
WAI Engineering
Sydney 2000
Australia
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Subject: Re: WinNT4/ Acad13 Capacity problem
From: Bob Stirling
Date: 18 Dec 1996 10:49:27 -0800
In article <32B82E14.7E00@mailbox.uq.edu.au>, Bornhorst says...
>
>Problem : Cannot load v.large drawings into ACAD13 while running NT4 WS
>Same files can be loaded into ACAD12 from Wfwg311 or Win95 using 
>(P90,32Mb).
>
>Computer Spec: NT4 WS, P166 64Mb RAM , 60M swap file
>
>The drawing is a survey drawing of 19M incl xrefs of 10M & 8M.
>In ACAD13, the drawing loads to 98% then stops. ACAD12 eventually loads 
>drawing (3 to 4 times as long compared to using Wfwg). Once loaded there 
>doesnt appear to be a problem.
>We are about to embark upon a project where there will be several 
>drawings of this size and a very tight deadline.
>
>Any help or hints will be tried as we are getting desperate.....
>
>TIA , Rob Gray    (PS Please reply to email as well as group)
>-- 
>BORNHORST + WARD		Level 4,67 Astor Terrace	Email : 
>born_ward@mailbox.uq.edu.au
Change your swap file size to 125 Mb, close all other applications, reboot.
This works for me.
Bob
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Subject: Globally Change Attribute Text Size
From: Bob Stirling
Date: 18 Dec 1996 10:56:17 -0800
I need to change the Text Size of Attribute Tags for about 1000 blocks.
Is there an easy way to do this with a global command (lisp program)? 
I have looked for a lisp routine, but haven't found anything. Using Acad r13 c4, NT 3.51.
Any help is appreciated. Thank you.
Bob Stirling
Geological Drafting Services
Whitehorse, YT
gdraft@polarcom.com
http://north-land.com/gds/
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