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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Win2k ACAD2ki
In normal everyday 2d drawings where Layouts are used, we find that if you access Mspace from within the Layout, and apply Draworder | Back to, say, some bhatch shading, then the next command you use puts the shading back on top. It seems as though you have to Draworder your...
Win2k ACAD2kiSR2
On some drawings upon opening, the final task before giving me the command line is a "Checking entity #1234 Menu Loaded" (1234 = #1 thru #n) I dunno where this entity checking came from (I checked Appload et c) but it's making me crazy. (er) Anyone reckernize it...
Win2k ACAD2kiSR2 PIII
Several of our cadders are getting the FATAL ERROR: Unhandled Access Violation Reading 0x0000 Exception at 340040 cbh when they use the Logitech marble mouse to pan and zoom in a drawing. We have tried a few fixes in the past, including one that modified the registry...
Acad2000i, W2K SR2
One of our guys drew up a 3d fence, then selected a nice viewpoint. The fence is composed of 3d solid posts and a 2d fence fabric. (Ah calls it "Pig wahr") All was well, then for no reason he could figure, the solid fence posts no longer would hide the fabric. A...
On one of our 2000i CAD stations, the operator uses Qleader and it usually runs OK. But in the middle of drafting a construction plan, Qleader started stacking the text one word per line. Looks like alphabetical ladder rungs! I checked his Qleader Settings -- they're the same as everyone...
