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    Minimum distance between two 3D objects?

    If they don't touch but are angling towards each other (where rays would eventually intersect) then wouldn't the bottom be the closest? Mayber you could check the distances on 2-d axis's and use some trig to figure it out? Jeffery V C.E.T. "If Brute force doesn't solve your problem, your not...
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    grips & Multi objects ribbon display

    When you say menu ribbon, do you mean the Properties selection I.E. instead of saying Line, Polyline etc, it says Multiple? How are you picking your "grips"? Are you selecting the object by clicking on it or draging the mouse to box the object? Or am I way off? Jeffery V C.E.T. "If Brute...
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    Is it too late and too difficult for me to succeed?

    They aren't lying about the math, it is Hard... I am only a Civil Engineering Technologist, and my class went from 29 students to 8 graduates, 90% dropping from the Math portion, and we never even touched Thermal Dynamics and some of the other stuff I've seen. oi. That being said, don't sell...
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    Is This a Professional Ethics

    The most we ever get when we win said lawsuits is a New took and some Maple bacon ;) Jeffery V C.E.T. "If Brute force doesn't solve your problem, your not using enough"
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    Drawing units in inches using LandDesktop '04

    Switch to metric! ;) Jeffery V C.E.T. "If Brute force doesn't solve your problem, your not using enough"
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    CTRL & TAB then move mouse causes Acad LT 2012 to "Flicker"

    Is the mouse wireless? Is their special mouse drivers that were installed on the computer? I had my mouse do some funky stuff with the scrolling in autocad and different commands until I uninstalled the 3rd party mouse drivers and let XP figure out the mouse on it own, worked great. Might be...
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    What this error means? OSError:[Errno 13]

    After checking my Glorious Optimal Option Generating Learning Equipment It seems like its a permission error? Found this: "I figured out the reason for the error. I didn't have permission to save to/modify files in the current working directory. I had to change to another working...
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    Printing to PDF Filesize issue

    Downloaded Doro and explored it :p Thanks for the idea Apon printing I saved 21kb's off the file size... I am thinking the pdf printer maay be the culprit, or that there is no way to print this damn picture without cause 6mb worth of information,... Unless anyone else has a magic lever?
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    Printing to PDF Filesize issue

    Print Driver eh? Makes sense Any you guys recommend? Any Easy to Install on a company server that blocks more content then is helpful? ;)
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    Printing to PDF Filesize issue

    PMR06, Was a good idea, however no sucess... Regular Jpeg Prints at about 6.2 Mb 16bit and 256bit both printed about 8Mb, 24 Bit printed at 6.12Mb O.o Im sure there is a switch in the lost depths of programming hell that needs to be switched to make this work... but where?
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    Change lines and text to not bold

    Not sure if you every solved this issue, but if not then read on: The Bolding issue your having with text may be result of the Z location of the text, highlight all text with a bold and bring the property window up, for X and Y Coordinates youll get whatever, but for the Z coordinate hit 0, and...
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    Printing to PDF Filesize issue

    @ PMR06, The images I obtain, I really just print screen with Windows, Paste into Microsoft Paint, and then save it as a Jpeg (easiest way I have learned), so however many bits would be in that.. I found CAD and PDF's directly do not like each other, and this has been the easiest way to insert...
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    Printing to PDF Filesize issue

    I can edit some settings: For the properties of the drawing: Vector Graphics - Cannot Change True Type Text - Cannot Change Merge control (lines overwrite) - Cannot Change Raster Graphics Can change the following: - OLE: No Change in filesize - Raster and shaded/rendered viewports: This one...
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    Printing to PDF Filesize issue

    Good people, I currently do drafting for my firm, and am lucky enough to used AutoCAD 2004 currently until we update... When I print some drawings to PDF, i notice my 500kb CAD file will print a 6-10Mb PDF File. It usually happens with the following Inserting a Jpeg (which is usually a screen...
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