As an inspector in my city gov't, I noticed on a recent concrete flatwork pour that the supplier had added a product called, "Slag". While I understand their desire to use slag to replace hard-to-find Portland cement, and that flyash is no longer available here in the Pacific NW, the slag is...
My first step would be to obtain a set of pen size standards from your state dept of transportation (DOT) or from an engineering dept at a city.
They almost always have a list of standard symbols along with "pen" sizes listed.
Rocky
Regarding Pipeline's comment, "You'd think that someone would come up with a better way, no?"
First, some need a colored background, for instance, to add an AutoCAD logo to a colored CD label, and match the background. So that choice is a GOOD thing.
Second, to zoom extents, select a, Ctrl-C...
WinXP R2005 SP 0
Dang! A new plot dialog box to learn. So much for time efficiency! Seems that on our new R2005s, you start with a PageSetup style, then set up the centering xy offset, page size, etc, and plot. Next plot of same drawing, the settings are not there. For awhile, the...
I also had no problem with my recently-gone R2000i with crosshair and pickbox colors on a grey (Color 9) background. In the new R2005, my magenta (And later, Yellow) show up dirty grey -- barely distinguishable. The only std color that works is black.
BUT . . . there's more! We use SOLID...
Thanks for the responses, guys!
Ummm . . . I should have posted that all of our R2000i seats work just fine with the grey background and the yellow-green cursor. They look (on the editing screen) just like the preview. On the R2005 screen the yellow-green looks like a dark rust color. !
I...
Acad 2005.
I set model background to color 9 (Lt Grey) and cursor color to color 60 (Bright Yellow-Green). It displays just fine on the little preview window in the Color/Font dbox in Options.
But on the screen, the word "Model" on the model tab is Ylw-Grn all right, but the cursor is a dull...
Maybe our method is more pita, but we clean our whole network drive by SEARCHing for *.bak, then selecting the resulting list, and deleting scores or hundreds with one Delete. There are a few steps to it, but you 100% delete ONLY bak files, and you also get the whole drive at once.
Rocky
R2000i Win2k
In DesignCenter, with our standard symbols files showing, some std symbols will not show their preview, but only the red ACAD icon. They will all preview in the larger preview pane an the bottom, though.
If we rename one of these 'un-previewing' files, then it will preview...
FH . . .
You can change a .dwf to a .dwg, at least we can in R2000i. I don't know if you lose any settings or details, though.
The software you need is by IntelCAD, and it's called Dwf In. www.intelcad.com or sales@intelcad.com
We liked it for one project that we needed it for.
Rocky
My employer, a city government, has agreed with my suggestion to not be hustled anymore by AutoCAD. Therefore, we will be staying with R2000i. I figure that in slightly over 3 upgrades that I do not get, the money saved will buy a full release. (State contract pricing). We do 99% of our own...
IFRs -- thanks for the idea. Read my original post, and you will see that I did not really have the time to script something out.
AutoCAD used to have a continuously running demo, but I guess not any more.
Cheers! Rocky
CRG -- thanks for taking the time to reply. I agree, I don't believe in "prettying up" things for visitors; however, there is a guy here who signs my paycheck who has other ideas. Besides, our task distribution involves nearly everyone in surveying, construction inspection, drafting, and doing...
I work for a city engineering dept which will be doing a short "showoff" for some people visiting from our sister city in Japan. My boss says to have something running on a couple of computers that will really impress them. Yeah, right!
OK, so forget about impressing them . . . are there...
Ron --
Do you want to draw a Spiral? (Each circle is smaller than the previous one, like a piece of thread wrapped around a cone)
Or do you want to draw a Helix? (Each circle is the same size as the previous one, like a piece of thread wrapped around a cylinder.)
Hmmm . . . Rocky
