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From: bryanh@dseg.ti.com (Bryan Hazel)
Subject: Re: Plotting in ACAD R12
Reply-To: bryanh@dseg.ti.com
Organization: Just Me
Date: Fri, 4 Sep 1992 16:37:57 GMT

What networking software are you using? We have some 'homebrewed' network software
here and have not had problems reported using method #1 below. We are migrating to
LAN Manager and the few users in the R. 12/LAN Man subset have not reported problems.
What is the problem with plotting to a file and shelling out to send it to the prin-
ter? IMHO, printer re-direction is the root of all evil. It seems like it's impossi-
ble to get right (and network printing has been my life for the last 3 years). Con-
sider the advantages of plotting to a file:

1) If the printer screws up (paper jam or whatever) there's no need to regenerate
   the plot file.
2) IT WORKS about 100% of the time.
3) If you have output devices that can switch emulations - say between HPGL and
   PostScript - you can write a trick routine to verify the data and switch the
   device to the proper emulation. This relieves the user from having to watch
   it so closely to prevent screwing up EVERYBODY that shares the device. 

In article AA21938@slc12.INS.CWRU.Edu,         Robert Stalder <rxs14@PO.CWRU.EDU> () writes:
>>
>>We are currently having problem printing from ACAD R12 on a HP laserjet III on
>>a network. ACAD is on each of the clients, while the laserjet is on the
>>network. What happens is only about 3/4 of the drawings get printed. According
>>to the readme file with R12, ACAD does not support network printing (note we
>>never had this problem with earlier versions)  and to get output you shoul
>>either (1) redirect your output to a file with the port id as the name or (2)
>>redirect your output to a file and then copy the file to the portid using
>>"copy plotfile.plt /b lpt1:" for example. Method (2) works while method (1)
>>results in incomplete plots. As a note if you configure to plot to the port
>>directly you get error messages and no output at all. I have spoken to
>>Autodesk about this and they provided me with updated (beta) plotter drivers -
>>but the results are the same. Having to get outside of ACAD to plot is
>>unacceptable!!!!
>>
>>Has anyone out there experienced this? Any suggestions?
>>
>>Thanks in advance for any help
>>
>>Marc Benowitz
>>AT&T Bell Laboratories
>>m.s.benowitz@att.com
>>201-386-6290
>>
>>
>
>Well, I have found that doing AutoCAD plotting to a laser printer over a
>network is a real pain.  The solution that I've used is to use a simple
>printer sharing device directly from each of the workstations to the sharing
>device and then to the LaserJet.  Granted, queueing (sp?) becomes impossible,
>but if you really don't need it, it's a viable solution.
>
>--
>Rob Stalder                           "To know me ... is to beer me"
>rxs14@po.CWRU.Edu
>stalder@SCL.CWRU.Edu




Newsgroups: alt.cad.autocad
From: kelson@ais.org (David Lewis)
Subject: Autocad on unix w/ x terminals
Organization: UMCC
Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1992 18:38:24 GMT




     We are looking to possibly get a few more cad stations here.  I was
thinking of trying to go with nice unix box with some xterminals run off
of it.  Has anyone used autocad on a unix box?  We dont do extremely
heavy drawing (no 3d or rendering or anything.. just 2d mechanical stuff).
Pound for pound is going with unix a lot more expensive than dos?  What
are the advantages and disadvantages of using unix instead of dos?

  any help would be greatly appreciated..


--Dave
kelson@ais.org

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Newsgroups: alt.cad.autocad
Date:         Thu, 3 Sep 1992 13:44:32 -0400
Reply-To:     Robert Stalder <rxs14@po.CWRU.Edu>
From:         Robert Stalder <rxs14@PO.CWRU.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Autocad on unix w/ x terminals

>
>     We are looking to possibly get a few more cad stations here.  I was
>thinking of trying to go with nice unix box with some xterminals run off
>of it.  Has anyone used autocad on a unix box?  We dont do extremely
>heavy drawing (no 3d or rendering or anything.. just 2d mechanical stuff).
>Pound for pound is going with unix a lot more expensive than dos?  What
>are the advantages and disadvantages of using unix instead of dos?
>
>  any help would be greatly appreciated..
>
>
>--Dave
>kelson@ais.org
>
>

I would say your biggest advantage is the advantage of Unix over DOS in terms
of an operating system, which the differences are obvious.  Other than that,
there might be connectivity concerns that would push you towards a Unix
version...

--
Rob Stalder                           "To know me ... is to beer me"
rxs14@po.CWRU.Edu
stalder@SCL.CWRU.Edu
From: lind@ll.mit.edu (Tom Lind)
Newsgroups: alt.cad.autocad
Subject: Re: WANTED: dxf to cif Converter
Date: 1 Sep 92 16:40:49 GMT
Followup-To: alt.cad.autocad
Organization: MIT Lincoln Laboratory

In article <1992Sep1.121350.23148@ntb.ch>, gusset@ntb.ch (Thomas Gusset)
wrote:
> 
> Does anyone know about a dxf to cif converter?
> 
> Please send e-mail.
> 
> Thanks
> ---
> 
> @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@    **********************************************************
> @   @  @@  @@@@@      Thomas Gusset, Neu-Technikum Buchs, CH-9470 BUCHS
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I would also be interested in any answers to this question.

More thanks,  Tom...

Thomas A. Lind  < lind@ll.mit.edu >   |   Work Hard, tell everyone every-
Electrooptical Devices Group          |   thing you know, close a deal
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Newsgroups: alt.cad.autocad
From: bryanh@dseg.ti.com (Bryan Hazel)
Subject: Re: Need help with Autocad on a Network Comp
Reply-To: bryanh@dseg.ti.com
Organization: Just Me
Date: Fri, 4 Sep 1992 15:42:30 GMT

In article 715350366@femto.engr.mun.ca, lloyd@femto.engr.mun.ca (Lloyd Little) writes:
>
>You CAN use HIMEM with autocad, but you also have to use EMM386, turning all
>(or some portion) of your extended memory into expanded memory. EMM386 is
>VCPI compliant, so when autocad starts up, it can grab the simulated EMS
>for itself as plain extended memory.
>We do this all the time here.
>eg.
>device=himem.sys
>device=emm386.exe 2880 frame=d0000 i=b000-b7ff i=d000-f7ff x=b800-cfff ram
>dos=high,umb
>....
>
>This is part of the config.sys for a 386 with 4M of memory, using AMI BIOS.
>If you don't have AMI BIOS, the i=d000-f7ff should be i=d000-efff
>Of course you will have to exclude any ranges for installed hardware. In our
>case c800-cfff is used by a network card. The 2880 may vary with your system,
>but it cannot exceed real extended memory, and it is the amount which VCPI
>programs (autocad,lotus,...) can use.
>
>lloyd
>--
>Lloyd Little		Programmer Consultant CCAE
>			Memorial University of NFLD. Canada
>			(709) 737-3108
>lloyd@femto.engr.mun.ca

Hmmm, I use:

device=emm386.exe 14492 AUTO
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Date:         Thu, 3 Sep 1992 19:22:34 UTC+1000
From:         Peter Clark <Clark@RMIT.EDU.AU>
Subject:      Re: AME Authorization code format
X-To:         at770@cleveland.freenet.edu, AUTOCAD@OHSTVMA.ACS.OHIO-STATE.EDU

>Date:          Wed, 2 Sep 1992 04:12:01 GMT
>From:          "Frank W. Wisner" <at770@cleveland.freenet.edu>
>Subject:       AME Authorization code format

>I am curious, what form does the AME authorization code take. What
>is the general form? How many places? Is it all integers, or a
>combination of integers and letters? Would the format be the same
>for R11 and R12? What lanquage is this piece of code written in?
>What file is this information written to?

...curiousity killed the CAD...as you say in the US, dream on...

Cheers,
Peter

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From: bobs@Think.COM ( Robert Schwartz)
Newsgroups: alt.cad.autocad
Subject: AutoLISP routine to make list of layers names
Date: 28 Aug 1992 21:19:47 GMT
Organization: Thinking Machines Corporation, Cambridge MA, USA
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: grendle.think.com

Does anyone know how to write an AutoLISP routine that will 
generate an AutoLISP "list" that contains all the layers in 
the present drawing.  I need the list to process each layer
individually but can't figure out how to generate it within
th AuotLISP program.  Any help will be appreciated.  Please
e-mail me directly in an effort to avoid wasting bandwidth.
Thakns in advance.

Bob Schwartz
Thinking Machines Corp.
Cambridge MA
bobs@think.com
From: SMITHDA@SNYMORVA.BITNET (DON SMITH)
Newsgroups: alt.cad.autocad
Subject: Re: AUTODESK UNIVERSITY PROGRAMS
Date: 4 Sep 92 14:49:00 GMT
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Find out who the authorized Educational dealer is for your area from
AutoDesk and work through them.  It can give you substanial savings.  We
have also qualified as a volume purchase site and get a little additional
discount from that.
                                Don Smith SUNY Morrisville
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From: billc@Apple.COM (Bill Cockayne)
Newsgroups: alt.cad.autocad,alt.cad
Subject: Acad R11 and Kurta ABD for the Macintosh
Keywords: mac, kurta, acad, adb
Date: 28 Aug 92 01:03:24 GMT
Organization: Apple Computer Inc., Cupertino, CA

I am using AutoCAD R11 on a Macintosh Quadra 700 and am attempting to use
a Kurta IS/ADB board as a digitizing board.

I received PenWorks 7.0.1 from Kurta today and tried to configure AutoCAD
to use the Kurta board as a ADB digitizer.

But, whenever I try to set the mouse area within the ACAD config area ACAD 
craps out on me (error = 4) and the digitizer does not function as an ADB 
device anymore (at least until restart).

Has anyone experienced such a problem with such a config? Can anyone hazard
to guess whose fault this is based on previous experience with either product?
I am assuming that the PenWorks driver and AutoCAD are conflicting in some way
but am not sure who to blame. If I remove the PenWorks cp, then the pad works
fine as a digitizing board, but ACAD will not recognize it and demands the
PenWorks cp to be put back. When using PenWorks to define a mouse area, there
is no problem at all.

any help is greatly appreciated

bill cockayne
billc@apple.com
"I DO NOT SPEAK FOR APPLE COMPUTER, INC."

Newsgroups: alt.cad.autocad
From: lloyd@femto.engr.mun.ca (Lloyd Little)
Subject: Re: Need help with Autocad on a Network Computer
Reply-To: lloyd@jeeves.engr.mun.ca
Organization: C-CAE, Memorial University of Newfoundland
Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1992 12:26:06 GMT


You CAN use HIMEM with autocad, but you also have to use EMM386, turning all
(or some portion) of your extended memory into expanded memory. EMM386 is
VCPI compliant, so when autocad starts up, it can grab the simulated EMS
for itself as plain extended memory.
We do this all the time here.
eg.
device=himem.sys
device=emm386.exe 2880 frame=d0000 i=b000-b7ff i=d000-f7ff x=b800-cfff ram
dos=high,umb
...

This is part of the config.sys for a 386 with 4M of memory, using AMI BIOS.
If you don't have AMI BIOS, the i=d000-f7ff should be i=d000-efff
Of course you will have to exclude any ranges for installed hardware. In our
case c800-cfff is used by a network card. The 2880 may vary with your system,
but it cannot exceed real extended memory, and it is the amount which VCPI
programs (autocad,lotus,...) can use.

lloyd
--
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			Memorial University of NFLD. Canada
			(709) 737-3108
lloyd@femto.engr.mun.ca
From: gs@mi.diab.se (Greger Sernemar)
Newsgroups: alt.cad.autocad
Subject: Block symbols and Shapes
Date: 2 Sep 92 15:27:14 GMT
Distribution: alt
Organization: Diab Data AB, Sweden.


I wonder if it's possible to get hold on defined block-symbols or shapes of
integrated circuits and other electronic symbols somewhere on the net ?

I use autocad on an Zenit PC and just started to use it,
I have an old version, 2.52, but it works fine for my needs.

Thanks.
Greger
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From: wnkretz@ikesg1.energietechnik.uni-stuttgart.de (Oliver Kretzschmar)
Subject: How can I print or plot from ACAD 11.0 in a NOVELL Network ?
Organization: IKE
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1992 12:07:32 GMT



   Hey,

   How can I print or plot from AUTOCAD 11.0 to a printer in a NOVELL 
   network (for example NETWARE V2.2 and NETWARE LITE) ?
   Are there special configurations setting necessary ? What is commonly
   important to work with AUTOCAD in NOVELL ? Please mail me your
   informations !


   Thanks for your efforts

       Oliver


   
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Newsgroups: alt.cad.autocad
From: asrgf@cc.newcastle.edu.au
Subject: PC_Pattern Apparel package for Autocad.
Organization: University of Newcastle, AUSTRALIA
Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1992 07:52:27 GMT

   Our Department is considering buying PC-Pattern an American Apparel Design 
Package that run within Autocad. Does anyone know anything at all about it?

Newsgroups: alt.cad.autocad
From: wnkretz@ikesg1.energietechnik.uni-stuttgart.de (Oliver Kretzschmar)
Subject: How to print/plot with ACAD 11.0 in NOVELL network ?
Organization: IKE
Date: Fri, 4 Sep 1992 05:40:43 GMT


   Hey,

   How can I print or plot from AUTOCAD 11.0 to a printer in a NOVELL
   network (for example NETWARE V2.2 and NETWARE LITE) ?
   Are there special configurations setting necessary ? What is commonly
   important to work with AUTOCAD in NOVELL ? Please mail me your
   informations !


   Thanks for your efforts

       Oliver

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Newsgroups: alt.cad.autocad
From: alb@ais.org (Alan Brushaber)
Subject: DXF changes/enhancements for V12 documentation
Organization: UMCC
Date: Fri, 4 Sep 1992 13:31:13 GMT



Greetings,

  Does anyone know where I can get the list of DXF entity changes
(and any others) for V12? Thanks for any info.

Al - alb@ais.org
Newsgroups: alt.cad.autocad
From: mm@hela.iti.org (Michael McFarland)
Subject: alt.cad comp.cad.cadence comp.software-eng
Followup-To:  mm@iti.org
Summary:  Wanted: Info on CAD s/w development
Organization: Industrial Technology Institute
Date: Fri, 4 Sep 1992 17:53:17 GMT




I am working on a project at the Industrial Technology Institute to
develop a test system (or suite of testing tools) for use in the
development of CAD and CAE software.  In particular, the test system is
for software that will use the forthcoming Standard for the Exchange of
Product Model Data (STEP).  We would like to learn about software
development and testing that is done on CAD and CAE software products.

If you are directly involved in the development or testing of CAD or
CAE software, we would appreciate it if you would answer the following
questions.  In return for your input, we will send you a write-up of
our findings if you so request.

Please include your name, your company name, your email address,
telephone number and physical mail address.

(In case the return address on this message is garbled, please respond
to mm@iti.org)

1.  What sorts of methods and tools do you use for software
development?  (Such as use of a software life-cycle model; a method
like Yourdon, DeMarco, Ward/Mellor, Object-oriented, Gane/Sarson,
Jackson SA/SD, Bachman data model diagrams, etc.; things like code
generators, configuration control systems, debuggers; and CASE
environments such as Softbench, PCTE, STP, etc.)

2.  What is your development platform(s)? (h/w and o/s and environment)
	. Unix, OS/2, DOS, MVS, VMS,  ...
	. GUI builders

3.  What is your opinion about your development environment?  Is it
helpful or a hindrance?

4.  What sorts of methods and tools do you use for testing software?
Do you have a formal, documented procedure or is it ad hoc?  How do you
develop test cases?  Are the people responsible for testing the same
people who develop the software?

5.  How is your testing program integrated with your software
development methodology (i.e. CASE tool)?

6.  Have you ever developed software that had to read or write files
that conform to a standard such as IGES or DXF?  If so, how did you
verify the correctness of your software?


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Newsgroups: alt.cad.autocad
Date:         Thu, 3 Sep 1992 09:34:00 GMT
From:         Z_STAFF_CL@SOUTHAMPTON-INSTITUTE.AC.UK
Subject:      RE: AME Authorization code format
X-To:         AUTOCAD <AUTOCAD@OHSTVMA.ACS.OHIO-STATE.EDU>

AME authorisation code is a effectively a password to allow installation
of that product.  You are issued with it when you buy a licence.

You wouldn't be attempting to crack it would you ?
Newsgroups: alt.cad.autocad
From: gusset@ntb.ch (Thomas Gusset)
Subject: WANTED: dxf to cif Converter
Keywords: dxf2cif dxf cif converter
Reply-To: gusset@ntb.ch
Organization: Neu-Technikum Buchs, Switzerland
Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1992 12:13:50 GMT

Does anyone know about a dxf to cif converter?

Please send e-mail.

Thanks
---

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Newsgroups: alt.cad.autocad
From: rmartin@crchh109.bnr.ca (Richard Martin)
Subject: Can AutoCad import HPGL files?
Reply-To: rmartin@crchh109.bnr.ca (Richard Martin)
Organization: Bell-Northern Research, Richardson, Tx
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1992 20:25:07 GMT

I am not an AutoCad user, so bear with me.  I use a shareware CAD program and 
would like to be able to plot a D-size drawing.  The shareware CAD program can
produce an HPGL output.  I have access to a CAD station running AutoCad Rel.10
with an HP7586 plotter.  Can AutoCad import my HPGL file and then plot it on the
HP plotter?

Thanks
From: ccav86@ccsun.strath.ac.uk ("T.Laochaiwat")
Newsgroups: alt.cad.autocad
Subject: Re: Autocad on unix w/ x terminals
Date: 3 Sep 92 09:09:57 GMT
Organization: University of Strathclyde
	I used to use Autocad on Pc for sometimes (6 years), then I have

Those are all I can recall. :)

Term.
From: freu9035@elan.glassboro.edu (BRIAN FREUDENBERGER)
Newsgroups: alt.cad.autocad
Subject: new user
Date: 2 Sep 92 16:27:49 GMT
Organization: Glassboro State College, Glassboro, NJ

I'm a new user of autocad.  I got hooked on it when I had a night class this 
summer using rel. 11.  I'm looking for information on autocad - i.e. where 
can I buy it, for a reasonable price, and what applications should I look 
for after my purchase?  If anyone has any info on anything involving autocad 
please respond.  
			thanks,
			    B.F.
Newsgroups: alt.cad.autocad
From: rmartin@crchh109.bnr.ca (Richard Martin)
Subject: HPGL to ACAD CONVERSION
Reply-To: rmartin@crchh109.bnr.ca (Richard Martin)
Organization: Bell-Northern Research, Richardson, Tx
Date: Wed, 02 Sep 1992 21:59:57 GMT

Enrique wanted me to post this reply since he is having trouble with the 
network.

>You can import HPGL files to AUTOCAD.
>Buy the CADENCE magazine of the last four months, in one of these
>is an article with an AutoLISP program to convert HPGL files to
>autocad format.

>I suggest you to get some help with the compilation and execution of
>the program after you finish copying it from the magazine.

>Good luck.

>Enrique Rustrian
>Materials Research Centre
>Monterrey Technology Institute
>MEXICO
                                                                        
Newsgroups: alt.cad.autocad
From: rollins@oktext.sbc.com (Steven D. Rollins)
Subject: Problems with Rev 12 ?
Reply-To: rollins@oktext.UUCP (Steven D. Rollins)
Organization: Southwestern Bell
Date: Tue, 1 Sep 92 21:07:26 GMT

Is anyone having the problems we are with rev.12 ?  Most stem from the
use of a tablet.  First told we must go to Openwin 3. Use of a tablet gets
weird because of dialog boxes. You have to switch back and forth from
tablet mode to mouse mode and trash gets dumped onto command line. Get
"adi not running" errors intermitently.

Also lost key translations of F11 and F12 when going to Openwin 3, but
that's for another news group.

We don't have the documentation yet but hope there's a fix for these
problems. I liked the way the tablet worked in rev11. This is all 
running on Sun IPX machines.

Any help would be appreciated, at least until we get the Acad books.

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Newsgroups: alt.cad.autocad
From: minier@spot.Colorado.EDU (Jennifer Lynn Kolar)
Subject: Re: filled fonts for autocad
Keywords: fonts autocad filled free where
Organization: University of Colorado, Boulder
Date: Sat, 29 Aug 1992 18:31:42 GMT

blu@cellar.org (Dan Reed) writes:

>"filled"?  Please describe..

	Sorry for the confusion. The type of fonts I am looking for are
	block fonts, or solid fonts, not the outlined vector types.

J
Newsgroups: alt.cad.autocad
From: moisande@tnclus.tele.nokia.fi
Subject: Re: Can AutoCad import HPGL files?
Organization: Nokia Telecommunications.
Date: 27 Aug 92 07:32:47 EET

> I am not an AutoCad user, so bear with me.  I use a shareware CAD program and 
> would like to be able to plot a D-size drawing.  The shareware CAD program can
> produce an HPGL output.  I have access to a CAD station running AutoCad Rel.10
> with an HP7586 plotter.  Can AutoCad import my HPGL file and then plot it on the
> HP plotter?

        Try  nic.funet.fi  pub/msdos/graphics/autocad/hpgl2scr.zip

        It converts HPGL to Autocad.

                                                        jouko
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