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  1. Juice

    creating linetypes

    Hello everyone Can someone tell me how to create an original linetype. For instance, for sanitary i want to have -----ss------ Thanks Juice
  2. Juice

    Viewport is jumping

    Hello Everyone (Acad 2000) My boss just bought me a brand new computer which has Windows XP. And so I'm plugging along in my drawing, and I'm over in paper space. I wanted to get inside my viewport, so i double clicked in the viewport and then i jumped to zoom extent inside the viewport and...
  3. Juice

    Rendering in 2D

    Hello everyone, Is there a way to render in 2d in AutoCAD, or do i have to transfer the drawing to Photoshop or other related programs? Thanks Juice
  4. Juice

    layers not alphabetized

    In certain dwgs the layers are not alphabetized. Why is this and how can it be fixed? It's not too bad in some dwgs, but with dwgs w/ lots of layers, it's a pain in the #*!.
  5. Juice

    Xrefs not showing up

    Hello everyone This is a strange one. I am working with acad 2000, and the rest of the my coworkers are only working in 14. In this particularly drawing file i have a xrefthat is supposed to be showing up, but my xref manger says it is unresolved. the weird thing is that all my co-workers...
  6. Juice

    Creating an original hatch

    Hello everyone My geotechnical engineer, needs me to locate his soil borings on a profile. Which is fine but there multiple hatch patterns in his boring that he drew himself. Most of them are in the 50 different hatch patterns that autocad provides, but there is a couple that are not in that...
  7. Juice

    Zoom extents in viewport

    Hello everyone, I have problem, I am working in Autocad 2000. I am in PS trying to manipulate layers or using mvsetup command inside the active viewport. Once, i get in the viewport, it jumps back into zoom extents and changes my UCS back to world. It seems like i can't manipulate my...
  8. Juice

    Text outside of viewports???

    Hello everyone, This is a weird one. I'm in paper space, and i cut a view port in PS. Set my scale, for that view port, get my drawing in the right position. Then when i print, go to full preview everything is fine, but when it actually prints some of the text and lines that are cut off by...
  9. Juice

    Buying another seat

    Hello, I am working with Autocad 2000, and our business is expanding to another city. So my question to you is would it be cheaper to buy another seat for the Cad 2000 that we already have or upgrade to the latest version of Autocad. Now, we are just civil company, so we do not do many 3-d...
  10. Juice

    craziness!!!

    Hello everyone, i have weird question, my boss only has Voloview on his computer, and an architect sent him a drawing for him to look at, everything showed up on his screen. But when he emailed it to me and i opened it up in acad 2000. when i opened it up eveything is there except for the...
  11. Juice

    text fill

    hello everyone i just upgraded to acad 2000, and when i try to print the text is not filled in. Now, i know when i was in acad 14 there was a toggle in the print setup, is there one in 2000 that i am not seeing? thanks Juice
  12. Juice

    freeze in viewport

    Hello everyone, Real quick question, is a way to freeze a layer only in a particular viewport w/o going into layer manager? Thanks Juice
  13. Juice

    insert pdf files.

    hey everyone, how do you insert pdf files into an autocad drawing? thanks Juice
  14. Juice

    Customize Paper Size in 2000

    Hello everyone My question is, how do i customize a paper size in Autocad 2000. See, i know i can go 30x42 ( i believe it is size E), but i need to go a little longer like 30x50. I know my printer can do this, cause' i could do it when i had Autocad 14. I just updated to 2000, a month ago...
  15. Juice

    x-refs

    Hello everyone, This is a strange one, i just installed Autocad 2000 on my computer. I still have 14 on my computer aswell. Now i tried to open up a drawing in 2000. It opened up fine but my external refence does not show up. I go to my x-ref manager and it says it is unresolved. i even...
  16. Juice

    Bonus tools in 2000

    Hello everyone I have two questions: 1. How do i get the bonus tools that were in Autocad 14, into Autocad 2000? Or are they a general command in 2000? 2. Is there a way to trim a something in a block w/o exploding-->trimming-->then reinserting it into the drawing again? Thanks for any...
  17. Juice

    xrefs to blocks

    hello everyone, I know this is going to be a long shot, but is their a way to turn an external reference that's inserted in to a drawing into a block so i can modify it? I mean i know i can reinsert it as a block, but is there a way to skip that step and just do right in the drawing. Thanks...
  18. Juice

    single line to muti-line text

    hey everyone Is there a way to take a group of single line text and turn them into a mult-line text entity? Thanks Juice
  19. Juice

    pdf insertion

    Hey everyone, Is it possible insert a pdf file into a Acad drawing? And if it is, how? Much appreciated for your help! Thanks Juiec
  20. Juice

    xrefs through email

    Hello everyone, My question to you guys is: I'm trying to send a drawing to a client that has Acad. But i used an external reference in my drawing. How do i attach the xref to the drawing that will open up with it being seen by my client. My client does not know how utilize a xref. So he...

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