Hi there.
I am after some advice regarding a project I am working on at the moment.
My company is supplying a PLC based system on a ship which is going to be controlling hundreds of valves and reading back their status. These valves will be controlling numerous fire safety systems across the...
Guys,
I have a problem with my dimensioning in AutoCAD mechanical 2006. I want to stretch a horizontal dimension but everytime I select the dimension I want to stretch it moves the whole dimension. I can however stretch it over using the grip edit but I then have to stretch the line I want to...
Guys/Girls
This may have been covered already so forgive me for asking again. When I click into the viewport window in paperspace and try and scale the viewport window it scales the paperspace and modelspace? Anyone know the solution?
Guys,
I have searched this forum and done all of the things required to reduce my file size. I was hoping someone could possible help me to get the file size even smaller.
The issue I have is of download time, the GA that includes our design overlaid onto it is at the moment 8Meg. This GA...
Hi there,
Just wondering if anyone has a procedure that details the setting up of paperspace modelspace drawings. I have been given the task of dragging the CAD department into the 21st century but I am not very good at teaching others. The main points I want to address are the 'Page Setup'...
Hello,
Hopefully someone has a quick answer for this question.
I have a table, its actually a symbol legend inserted into an AutoCAD drawing. Does anyone know if there is a way to actually attach the symbol picture to the cell?
In some cases I do not require a certain symbol to be shown so...
Ladys and Gents,
I am inserting excel spreadsheets into an AutoCAD drawing, simple enough. However why, after I insert the excel spreadsheet does it only show a limited number of colums and a limited number of rows? Is there a way to get round this so I can see all my data in one go?
Ta
Dan
Hi there,
I have a small problem. I have a viewport inserted in paperspace of a ship. I have zoomed into the viewport in paperspace then selected the viewport. However I cannot now get out of the viewport to zoom extents of paperspace drawing.
There must be a command to de-select the...
Hi there,
I have a drawing that was produced in autocad 2006. I saved it down to 2000. I then wanted to copy and paste certain parts of the drawing into another drawing. I use the copy command, select a point and copy the bit I require. I then try to paste to the other drawing but nothing...
Hi there,
I am trying to create a linetype. Basically I want to create one like this ~~~~~~~~~~~ but I was hoping I could create it using to half circles joined together. Can anyone explain to me how to go about this and then how to store it in your .lin file
Thanks
Dan
Hi all
I have a drawing of a ship and the deck I am working on is split into 5 zones. I want to put zones 1,2 and 3 on one drawing and 4 & 5 on a another.
I want to draw a line right through the deck between zones 3 & 4 and bascially just seperate them apart. Is there a command that does...
My college was working on a drawing yesterday, this moring when he tried to open the drawing it came up with the following error.
internal error: !dbspace.cpp@1954: eOk
The drawing does not open AutoCAD crashes.
Can anyone shed any light on this problem.
Regards
Danny.
Sorry if this has been covered before but I am after the percent percent value for mm2. I want the 2 to be smaller and on the top right of the last m.
Cheers
Danjo
I know it has probably been answered before but could someone please point me in the right direction. I am trying to link specific information from a excel spreadsheet onto an AutoCAD drawing. I want the AutoCAD drawing to update automatically when I update the spreadsheet.
Thanks
Danjo
I have a site plan that is drawn in Model space. I have had a request to export the paper space drawing with the frame and specific position of site into a wmf. When I do the export it only picks up the frame and nothing else?
Anyone got a solution for this problem?
Regards
Danjo
Does anyone have a typical script file for doing a multiple plot from AutoCAD LT 2000. I have downloaded the scripteeze software and think I have worked out how to use it.
Your help would be great because I am shite at writing scripts.
Regards
Danjo
Hi,
I have around 300 hundred drawings with attributed text on them. The attributed text contains drawing title, drawing number, revision status etc. I was wondering if it was possible to write some sort of script to automatically up-rev the drawing and then up-date the attributed text...
My company logo uses a specific text font for its logo. Unfortunately not all people posses this logo on their PC's. Therefore when certain people open up a drawing the company logo is incorrect or not shown at all. The only way around this is to actually draw the logo.
My question: Is...
I have a drawing full size in model space. I create a viewport in paper space.
My brain is either not working today or I am just thick but how do I get a true scale in paper space?
Regards
Danjo
