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From: "joe labonte" <joe.labonte@canrem.com>
Newsgroups: alt.cad.autocad
Subject: acad temporary files
Date: 31 Jul 92 14:25:19 EST
Reply-To: "joe labonte" <joe.labonte@canrem.com>
Distribution: alt
Organization: Canada Remote Systems

DN>I am running Release 11 on a Sun network an am wondering if anyone can
DN>explain what the three temporary files (EF.ac$, SP1.ac$, and SP2.ac$) do
DN>that ACAD creates.  These files are created each time a drawing is called
DN>up and are always located in the directory where the drawing file is (on
DN>the file server).  Are these files swap files or do they have another
DN>function?  If they are swap files, how can I make ACAD create them on my
DN>workstation's local disk rather than on the file server (I tried setting
DN>the ACADPAGEDIR environment variable to /tmp/, but that didn't work).


DN>Don Newman
DN>newman@think.com

If you are using ACAD386 you can Override the default Swap Disk. Page 76
of the installation manual.  In your ACAD386 Directory there is a program
CFIG386  type CFIG386 ACAD -SWAPDIR C:\SWAP.

Good Luck, Let me know how it turns out.


Joe Labonte , Guelph, Ontario, Canada     (Brampton Node)
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From: bise@girtab.usc.edu (Daniel W. Bise)
Newsgroups: alt.cad.autocad,alt.cad,alt.3d,alt.graphics,comp.graphics
Subject: 3D Studio: Chromio, Chromio, where for art thou?
Date: 22 Jul 1992 09:02:59 -0700
Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
NNTP-Posting-Host: girtab.usc.edu

What kind of black magic will yield believable chrome/mirror
surfaces and objects in 3D Studio? I'm interested in doing
a complete object rather than using the flat mirror attribute
in the materials editor.

I'd appreciate any posted or e-mailed tips on materials and
their application to objects/faces that will pull this off
somewhat convincingly. Is it possible? My efforts so far have
only resulted in a lame smudgy "chrome" surface. Thanks!

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Newsgroups: alt.cad.autocad
Date:         Wed, 29 Jul 1992 08:10:49 PDT
From:         "David G. Booth" <COM1BOOT@UCSBVM.BITNET>
Subject:      Cross-hair and UCS icon color

A few people have responded to my note regarding changing the color of
the cross-hairs and ucs icon. The question again is - how do you do it?
I think there is a simple way to do this within Autocad - I do not think
I have to change display drivers or anything like that. I am running
release 11 on an IBM Model 70 PC with the 8514video card. Please respond
as I know there are a number of people wishing to change colors also..
Thanks again...

David Booth
University of California, Santa Barbara
com1boot@ucsbvm.bitnet
From: blu@cellar.org (Dan Reed)
Newsgroups: alt.cad.autocad
Subject: Re: the order in which entities are drawn
Date: 27 Jul 92 19:24:22 GMT
Organization: The Cellar BBS and public access system

dyck@cs.sfu.ca (Michael Dyck) writes:

> If you have a bunch of intersecting entities [all lying in the Z=0
> plane], which comes out 'on top'?
> 
> AutoCAD (release 11) appears to use some sort of painting metaphor, so
> that the appearance of the drawing depends on the order in which
> entities are drawn.  So what determines that order?
> 
> Note that it's NOT simply the order in which they're created:  if you
> create a solid, then a line, then a solid, the line isn't sandwiched
> between the solids, it comes out on top. On the other hand, it is
> possible to have a solid drawn over top of a line.
> 
> -Michael Dyck, dyck@cs.sfu.ca


Sure it is... Ive done this more than a few times, when making "signs" for my 
screen (Ie, a solid is a quick and easy way to color a backround).  
Everything on top of it, elevation or no elevation, is still "drawn" on top 
of the solid, as long as you drew the solid first..

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From: vjw40842@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Van John Woods)
Subject: emulator question
Summary: Can acad11 run with em87 (coprocessor emulator)?
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1992 23:46:45 GMT
Keywords: emulator

I have seen machines run acad10 without a math coprocessor by using an
emulator called em87.  

My question is this:  Can Autocad ver. 11 do the same thing.....run with
an emulator instead of a math coprocessor.

I am aware of the significant speed decrease--just curious to see if it
would run on a machine without one.


					Van Woods
From: mech413@csc.canterbury.ac.nz
Newsgroups: alt.cad.autocad
Subject: ADVICE wanted on Autocad hardware systems
Date: 31 Jul 92 00:02:34 +1200
Organization: University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand

Hi,

	I was recently enquiring at the only Autocad shop in the city about 
setting up an autocad system. The prices they were quoting for the hardware
seemed extremely high. The reason, they told me, for this was that autocad
required special highspeed mother boards from the US in order to run 
correctly. They also mentioned special graphics cards required by autocad 
to run. I compared the prices for hardware they quoted and discovered that 
I can purchase a similar spec 486 with graphics systems for about a third
of the price that they wanted.

Can anyone inform about hardware compatibilty problems they have/ or
don't have and about hardware and graphics cards to avoid when setting up a
autocad system.

 Any advice or hints would be greatly appreciated as I know next to nothing
about Autocad.

	Thanks in Advance

	Tim Pierre


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Newsgroups: alt.cad.autocad
From: lijnis@sci.kun.nl (Lijnis Nelemans)
Subject: Layers  Scan
Organization: University of Nijmegen, The Netherlands
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1992 14:28:59 GMT


       Hello,

Does anybody know : 

     - if it is possible to have more than 5 layers visible at the
       same time in the 'change layer dialog box' in AutoCAD release 10c2 ?
       In release 11 it is possible I think.

     - if it is possible to make a scan of a logo/image for use in AutoCAD ?
       What kind of scanner/software do I need for that.

(I'm running AutoCAD on a 386 25MHz PC with co-prosessor.)

All sugestions are welcome.

Thanks in advance,
                Lijnis

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From: dye@edison.llumc.edu (Leonard Dye)
Newsgroups: alt.cad.autocad
Subject: CAM Software
Date: 30 Jul 92 21:09:19 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: LLUMC Radiation Research Lab

Yesterday a person was looking for help converting Autocad geometry to NC code.
I thought it might be interesting taking a poll of Autocad users what their
favorite CAM software is.

We use Smartcam mainly because it's the lowest price package for a Sun system
and is compatible with Autocad DXF files. Our first version (4.5) even looked
similar to Autocad, but that has all changed now. Smartcam is very flexible for
custom code generators and simple macro langages. They have some minor bugs on
the Sun platform which probally are not there on the PC's. They are doing their
development on Sun's now, so hopely version 7 takes care of them. I still use
Autocad do layout the geometry because it much more efficient to draw than
Smartcam. If you "write" the geometry instead of "draw" the geometry use DXF
format instead of CAMCAD standard. The CAMCAD standard is limited and doesn't
have the versatility that DXF format has.

Any comments or further votes?
From: drake@Autodesk.COM (Dan Drake)
Newsgroups: alt.cad.autocad
Subject: Re: Layer Question
Date: 27 Jul 92 20:49:45 GMT
Organization: Autodesk Inc., Sausalito CA, USA

esri!england!andyb@UUNET.UU.NET (Andy Bouffard) writes:
+ Alan,
+ ...
+   If you are talking about modifying the DXF file yourself, from
+ outside AutoCAD, then you will have to take care that you create
+ new layers in the layer table when you want to put entities on
+ them.
+ 
+ >   ...
+ >   Question: Does anyone know if there's a problem specifying LAYERS for
+ > entities (on the 'fly' so-to-speak) that haven't been declared in a LAYER
+ > TABLE in the TABLES Section? (without doing any damage, of course:). I
+ > don't know up front what the layer names will be.
+ >
+ >   Thanks for any info.
+ >
+ > Al - alb@ais.org, alb%cod@aaaca1.sinet.slb.com

To expand slightly on the answer: All the layers do have to be defined
up front in the layer table; therefore, if you don't know about them all
before starting to write the entities, you'll have to do a 2-pass
process.  Write the entities to a temporary file, and as you do so,
write definitions for any necessary layers on another temp file.  At the
end, merge it all into a valid DXF in the proper order.

--
Dan Drake
drake@Autodesk.com

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From: bg@ukc.ac.uk (G.S.Briggs)
Newsgroups: alt.cad.autocad
Subject: Autocad 10/11 DWG files
Date: 30 Jul 92 09:56:55 GMT
Reply-To: bg@ukc.ac.uk (G.S.Briggs)
Organization: Computing Lab, University of Kent at Canterbury, UK.

I am running autocad 10 at home (on a 386sx), whilst the college where
I work has recently upgraded to Autocad 11. What I am wondering is
whether I can can get autocad 11 to write DWG files in a format that
autocad 10 will accept; I know that aautocad 11 will read my autocad
10 dwg files, but does it work the other way around. The alternative
is to upgrade to release 11 myself; but I wonder whether my machine
(16MHz 386sx with 2M RAM) is up to the task of running release 11.

Does anyone have any comments?

G.S.Briggs, University of Kent, England : bg@ukc.ac.uk
From: FM010201@ysub.ysu.edu
Newsgroups: alt.cad.autocad
Subject: looking for local area maps in autocad dxf file format
Date: 31 Jul 92 00:39:02 GMT
Organization: Youngstown State University

looking for maps in autacad dxf file format. If anybody please know a governmen
t ftp site from where these maps can be downloaded. Thanks in advance.
Alam      internet: fm010201@ysub.ysu.edu
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Newsgroups: alt.cad.autocad
Date:         Fri, 31 Jul 1992 09:49:46 UTC+1000
From:         Peter Clark <Clark@RMIT.EDU.AU>
Subject:      Re: ADVICE wanted on Autocad hardware systems
X-To:         mech413@cantva.canterbury.ac.nz,
              AUTOCAD@OHSTVMA.ACS.OHIO-STATE.EDU

>Date:          Fri, 31 Jul 1992 00:02:34 +1200
>Subject:       ADVICE wanted on Autocad hardware systems

>Hi,
>
>   I was recently enquiring at the only Autocad shop in the city about
>setting up an autocad system. The prices they were quoting for the hardware
>seemed extremely high. <deletion>
>Can anyone inform about hardware compatibilty problems they have/ or
>don't have and about hardware and graphics cards to avoid when setting up a
>autocad system.

...sounds like confirmation of the dictum that lies are tales told by
salespersons...we use mainstream hardware to extend operational life
and reliability...COMPAQ 386/486 processors, STB Powergraph graphics
cards, Targa+ for rendering and video, NEC monitors, Hitachi and GTCO
tablets, Microsoft mice...you get what you pay for...

...it is possible to configure cheaper platforms eg SKAI 486DX with
EISA, Tseng graphics cards, Taxan displays etc...but what happens
when the hard disk fails, or there's a memory failure, or a graphics
card turns to spaghetti (yes, when, not if)...

...with mainstream purchases, support is rapid, maintenance contracts
are available and their costs work out cheaper over time for large
installations when compared with providing in-house technical support
etc..small users with mixed vendor "no-name" hardware have to take
the risk and cope with the problems as they occur...that's in part
why these platforms require lower initial capital...

...if you find a vendor for this kind of hardware who also offers a
maintenance contract, read the fine print and do the sums carefully
and you may find that what appears cheap at buy time, over a three to
five year period, turns out to be otherwise...

good luck and cheers,
Peter



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Newsgroups: alt.cad.autocad
From: parikh@sirocco.eng.hou.compaq.com (Vijay Parikh)
Subject: AutoCAD Temporary Files
Organization: Compaq Computer Corp.
Distribution: na
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1992 16:18:30 GMT

>From: newman@Think.COM (Don Newman)
>Newsgroups: alt.cad.autocad
>Subject: ACAD temporary files
>Message-ID: <151d4sINNqus@early-bird.think.com>
>Date: 27 Jul 92 17:52:28 GMT
>Organization: Thinking Machines Corporation, Cambridge MA, USA
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>NNTP-Posting-Host: liszt.think.com


>I am running Release 11 on a Sun network an am wondering if anyone can
>explain what the three temporary files (EF.ac$, SP1.ac$, and SP2.ac$) do
>that ACAD creates.  These files are created each time a drawing is called
>up and are always located in the directory where the drawing file is (on
>the file server).  Are these files swap files or do they have another
>function?  If they are swap files, how can I make ACAD create them on my
>workstation's local disk rather than on the file server (I tried setting
>the ACADPAGEDIR environment variable to /tmp/, but that didn't work).

>Thanks in advance,

>Don Newman
>newman@think.com

AutoCAD creates the following files:
ac$ extension ---> Temporary
swr extension ---> Swap reserve 
no extension  ---> swap reserve
 
You could safely delete any of these files *AFTER* completely exiting out
of AutoCAD session, if they are not deleted by AutoCAD.  In most cases, AutoCAD
does clean up the temporary files upon exiting.  Only during system lockup
problem, these files stay on your server/local hard disk.

On MS-DOS platform running AutoCAD R-11 network version, you set acad386
environment variable as per follows:

set acad386= -swapdir c:\swap

Note that space after = sign and a dash are important and it has to be in this
syntax.  You could create any directory on your local workstation's local
disk and point this variable to that directory.  This will eliminate creation
of swap files on server and would create on local disk which in turn would
speed up the overall performance since it does not hvae to go thru' network
traffic.

You would also need to run cfig386 from the directory which has your main
AutoCAD executables (you would need SU access).  Run cfig386 as per follows:

cfig386 acad -swapdir c:\swap

Hope this explains, I would imagine the variable is same on Sun platform.
Check your manual for exact syntax.

Vijay Parikh
Systems Engineer
Compaq Computer Corporation
Houston, TX
Newsgroups: alt.cad.autocad
From: rrenzett@zeus.calpoly.edu (Roberto Bertini Renzetti)
Subject: ADS_ENTGETX - solution to my problem.
Organization: California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1992 22:13:45 GMT

Hi !

	I finally figured out what was my mistake with ads_entgetx....
And it is embarassing to confess how silly it was... but since it is 
something that someone can have a headache with someday, I'll explain the 
mistake so that you can avoid it.
	What happened is that I forgot to put a NULL in the pointer to
the next element of the result buffer list that contains the application
names (used as the second argument in ads_entgetx)... Therefore, AutoCAD
would get garbage instead of stoping at the end of the result buffer list.

	OK. I know. You can flame me. I deserve it.  ;-(
	But hey, it can happen to anyone...

Here is the correction for the code that I posted a while ago. Just add one
line and it works.

----------------------------------------------------------------------------

/*-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
   list_dxf()

   Prints the DXF codes of a selected entity.
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------*/
void list_dxf()
{
  struct resbuf *objrb, *temprb, appnamerb;
  ads_name objname;
  ads_point pt;

  /* Create result buffer with application name. */
  appnamerb.restype = RTSTR;
  strsave (appnamerb.resval.rstring, APPNAME);

  /* ADD THIS LINE TO CORRECT THE FUNCTION */
  appnamerb.rbnext = NULL;

   .
   .
   .

(the rest of the code continues the same).
---------------------------------------------------------------------------

	Special thanks for Michael Dyck, who gave a really cool hint about
ads_entmod. 


Roberto Bertini Renzetti
(rrenzett@athena.calpoly.edu)

Newsgroups: alt.cad.autocad
From: vtessier@vela.acs.oakland.edu (Vince Tessier)
Subject: Re: Printer Drivers for Autocad. FTP Site??
Organization: Oakland University, Rochester MI.
Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1992 03:47:35 GMT

bond007@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Matt R Burback) writes:

>  Does anyone know if there is a FTP site that has printer drivers for
>  AutoCAD Release 10 or greater?  Specifically 9-pin Epson driver, better
>  than the one included with AutoCAD.

A friend found a shareware HPLJ3 ADI driver for me on Compu$erve.
Apparently, their AutoCAD conference is much more active than this
puppy.  If you do locate an FTP site with AutoCAD-related stuff,
please let me know.
-- 
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"Think global, act loco."  -- Zippy
From: blu@cellar.org (Dan Reed)
Newsgroups: alt.cad.autocad
Subject: Re: DXF Line/Text Weights (thickness)
Date: 21 Jul 92 18:41:45 GMT
Organization: The Cellar BBS and public access system

alb@ais.org (Alan Brushaber) writes:

> 
> 
> Greetings,
> 
>   Is there a way to specify Line and/or Text weights in DXF?
> Thanks for any pointers.
> 
> Al - alb@ais.org


Only if the line was a polyline (pline), you could chage the width..

Text has no weight, in a DXF, text is rtored three ways, style, placement, 
and what is says.  To change the weight, I suppose you might try changing the 
fonts with one that was "thicker" than the other...

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Newsgroups: alt.cad.autocad
From: jawatson@mtu.edu (JANET C. WATSON)
Subject: Re: Autocad 10/11 DWG files
Organization: Michigan Technological University - CTS
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1992 12:35:15 GMT

In article <9697@harrier.ukc.ac.uk>, bg@ukc.ac.uk (G.S.Briggs) writes:
> I am running autocad 10 at home (on a 386sx), whilst the college where
> I work has recently upgraded to Autocad 11. What I am wondering is
> whether I can can get autocad 11 to write DWG files in a format that
> autocad 10 will accept; I know that aautocad 11 will read my autocad
> 10 dwg files, but does it work the other way around. The alternative
> is to upgrade to release 11 myself; but I wonder whether my machine
> (16MHz 386sx with 2M RAM) is up to the task of running release 11.
> 
> Does anyone have any comments?
> 
> G.S.Briggs, University of Kent, England : bg@ukc.ac.uk

Your machine should be able to run rel 11.  I don't thing you can read from 
11 to 10.  Rel 11 has stuff that rel 10 doesn't understand.  It would be a 
mess if you were even able to bring the drawing on the screen.  Your best
bet would be to upgrade.
JC
Newsgroups: alt.cad.autocad
From: james@news.mitre.org (James Logan)
Subject: Map Projections
Organization: The MITRE Corporation
Distribution: alt
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1992 21:54:39 GMT

Hello,

Has anyone written autolisp code to plot lattitude and longitude
points to scaled maps.  Specifically I need routines to convert
between (lat, lon) to X,Y in "Lambert conformal conic projection" and
(lat, lon) to X,Y in "Transverse Mercator projection".  If not I will
have to write my own code to do it.  The equations look a little
messy.

Thanks in advance.

James Logan
james@sunny.mitre.org

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From: parikh@sirocco.eng.hou.compaq.com (Vijay Parikh)
Subject: Conversion from R-11 to R-10
Organization: Compaq Computer Corp.
Distribution: na
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1992 14:26:50 GMT

From twisto.eng.hou.compaq.com!wotan.compaq.com!cs.utexas.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!caen!mtu.edu!mtu.edu!jawatson Thu Jul 30 09:17:45 CDT 1992
Article: 1076 of alt.cad.autocad
Newsgroups: alt.cad.autocad
From: jawatson@mtu.edu (JANET C. WATSON)
Subject: Re: Autocad 10/11 DWG files
Organization: Michigan Technological University - CTS
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1992 12:35:15 GMT

In article <9697@harrier.ukc.ac.uk>, bg@ukc.ac.uk (G.S.Briggs) writes:
>> I am running autocad 10 at home (on a 386sx), whilst the college where
>> I work has recently upgraded to Autocad 11. What I am wondering is
>> whether I can can get autocad 11 to write DWG files in a format that
>> autocad 10 will accept; I know that aautocad 11 will read my autocad
>> 10 dwg files, but does it work the other way around. The alternative
>> is to upgrade to release 11 myself; but I wonder whether my machine
>> (16MHz 386sx with 2M RAM) is up to the task of running release 11.
>> 
>> Does anyone have any comments?
>> 
>> G.S.Briggs, University of Kent, England : bg@ukc.ac.uk

>Your machine should be able to run rel 11.  I don't thing you can read from 
>11 to 10.  Rel 11 has stuff that rel 10 doesn't understand.  It would be a 
>mess if you were even able to bring the drawing on the screen.  Your best
>bet would be to upgrade.
>JC

Although, you should upgrade to R-11 (since R-12 is already out) from R-10,
there are a number of 3rd party software available that would let you convert R-11 drawing format to R-10.  AutoSave from Cyco International is one example.
It costs around $250.  If cost is a constraint, you should use DXFIX utility
that comes with AutoCAD R-11 (supplemental disk).  This requires you to first
create .DXF file in R-11 format and using DXFIX utility, you can create
.DXF file for R-10 format.  You then DXFIN this file in R-10.  You would
loose a number of R-11 specific things such as reference files, extended
entity data, and a few others when you convert to R-10.

If you do not use R-11 specific things, you should be o.k. by using DXFIX.
Hope this explains,

Vijay Parikh
Systems Engineer
Compaq Computer Corporation


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