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My office has just changed from Acad 2002 to 2004 and a couple of "fussy" people in the office do not like the new look Toolbar icons, Fillet, Match properties etc.. To keep these people happy is there anyway, without individually changing each toolbar icon, that I can import the Acad 2002...

I am looking to purchase a laptop to run AutoCad 2004 and also Revit 6,however I am on a budget of less than £1000 (which includes the VAT). I am confused with Celeron, Athelon, Centrino in comparison with a true Pentium 4 processor. We have pentium 4 1.5 Ghz machines in work which handle...

Many thanks for your replies, It has been decided that we are going for the flat screen monitors, it was very useful to hear other peoples opinions on this subject. Regards Welshman

Hi guys I work in a small local authority architect department and we are currently using AutoCad 2002 with 21" monitors (not flat screen). We have recently been offered 21" flat screens but it has been mentioned that flat screen monitors are not suitable for CAD work or Adobe...

Does anyone know of a user group site/ chat room / tip site etc.. like this AutoCad one, but instead for Adobe Photoshop. Many Thanks The Welshman

Will AutoCad 2004 run on windows 98 or are there known problems? Or is it simply that Acad 2004 does not run on Win 98 Regards Welshman

Having looked into the price of RAM & seeing how cheap it is at the moment I am firstly going to upgrade my RAM to 256MB and see how the softare runs on my 500mhz machine once this is fitted. If it is too slow then upgrading the board & processor will have to be my next move. Many thanks to...

If anyone is running Acad2004 I wonder if you could tell me the minimum spec of PC that 2004 would be "happy" to run on. At the moment I have a 500mhz PC with only 64mb RAM but at the moment I do not want to spend a load on new motherboard, processor and RAM. I need to know the...

Thanks Friptzap Its seems to work a treat. regards Welshman

Is is possible to have one drawing that has two xrefs in model spaces and display them in paper space in two seperate vports with each vport having a different LTSCALE. For instance Vport one is showing a 1:500 OS map with a LTSCALE of 500 and vport two is showing a 1:20 detail with an LTSCALE...

Hi guys n gals Does any one have a copy of the Architectural British Brickwork Dimension tables (Metric Version) on file that they could E:mail to me. You know table for adding and subtracting vertical & horizontal brickwork courses. Many thanks in advance. The Welshman

Haggis An E:mail with blocks would be appreciated. My Work E:Mail is Davied2@Bridgend.gov.uk Many thanks, The Welshman

Hi guys Does anyone know where I can find free 2D AutoCad symbols, I am mainly looking for plan view of cars lorries and agricultural vehicles. There was a load of free symbols on AUTODESK POINT A about 6 months ago but the web site has changed and they do not seem available any more, If...

Hi To reverse the screen colours you should look under TOOLS/OPTIONS/DISPLAY/COLOURS, I use a black background and always have to change it to a white background when I export TIFF too. Hope this helps Welshman

its ok guys I've sussed it: (setq file (strcat "o:/plot/drawings/" (getvar"loginname") (getvar"dwgname"))) (setq a (open file "w")) This now creates a new file of zero bytes with the filename made up from the user name and the drawing name every time...