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  1. cudaracer

    Boss lied

    They probably should have added the intrest to the $25,000 that was made over the 18 months when they fixed the overpayment....
  2. cudaracer

    Disturbing Colleague

    Just buy a set of noise cancelling headphones, plenty of batteries, and forget about it... That's what I do.
  3. cudaracer

    American employees waist 20% of their work day

    OK... let's just take -5 off for spelling, and move on...
  4. cudaracer

    What license management software do you use??

    Hello all, My company is starting to grow at a pretty fast rate. We are starting to have license issues with Autocad. We are starting to look at different software to manage who is using Autocad. We need to be able to see who's using it, how long they're on it, and if there's a way to get a...
  5. cudaracer

    Lazy designers/drafters

    I'll probably be banned for this, but I really beleive the situation goes both ways... I have worked with engineers who wait untill the last minute a job is due, then will unload fifty or so drawings and expects them to be done in two days, or they try to mark up 11x17 prints, and make the...
  6. cudaracer

    performance and fuel economy?

    You also might want to check out www.moparts.com it's a mopar only message board that should have some ideas for you...
  7. cudaracer

    Crower Six Stroke Engine

    According to the article the engine does not use any external cooling system, which I thought would mean any weight gained by the water tank would be loss by the reduction of the entire cooling system. I know years back that Crower Cams was one of the premier designers in camshaft technology...
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    Crower Six Stroke Engine

    I have recently read in an automotive trade magazine that Bruce Crower of Crower Cams has designed and patented a new six stroke gasoline engine that uses steam produce a second power stroke that is produced from water injection. This engine design is supposed to produce equal horsepower, but a...
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    Is there a way to "lock" a .dwg file so it can't be modified?

    You could always convert the dwg to a pdf file and still view it in either autocad or adobe, there's a site with shareware software @ www.pdf995.com. Hope this helps.. Don
  10. cudaracer

    Do you draw on the 0 'zero' layer?

    I would say that it all depends on what the customer wants.. Most clients have their own layering standards. The client that we do work for does not want anything drawn on "0" layer, but that is not to say that is the case with all clients.
  11. cudaracer

    Jerks at Work

    Just remember...No Body - No Crime....
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    Date stamp with user's name

    I forgot to mention, the reason that we don not use the plotstamp feature in Autocad is that they like having the name and date information physically in the file as a way to verify the markup matches the file. Thanks again, Don
  13. cudaracer

    Date stamp with user's name

    My company has recently started to use the ddts.lsp routine to place the file path, date and time on drawings, they are now looking for a way to modify the lisp routine to include the users' login name also, The current routine is as follows: ;;; ***** DDTS.LSP ***** ;;; ;;; Places Drawing...
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    Who is to blame for US outsourcing

    Personally I think that outsourcing has alot of similarities to the dockside(trickle down) economic theory. Which makes me believe it favors the Republican viewpoint. It looks like outsourcing is going to benfit only the upper tax bracket by giving them another source of cheap labor. It also...
  15. cudaracer

    Fewer Engineers/More Work

    Hello All, I've been watching this post with interest over the past couple of days, especially to the comments regarding the power side. I have worked in the power industry for over the past ten years, albeit a lonely designer, but in the industry never the less. I was laid off for the second...
  16. cudaracer

    Plot Stamp....

    At my company we use an autolisp routine called ddts, it will show the file location, filename, date, and time. It also saves the file in the current directory.If you want to try using it go ahead and paste the following lisp routine in notepad, and save it as ddts.lsp Hope this...
  17. cudaracer

    Contract job

    Just be sure if they tell you that it could become permanent that you get a time frame, and something in writing. The last place I worked was originally contract through a job shop. It was supposed to go direct within three months, and didn't. I was there for about a year with no insurance and...
  18. cudaracer

    Autocad to Microstation

    You might want to check out this site for starters... www.caddigest.com/subjects/microstation/tutorials.html A couple of months back there was another site www.sbu.ac.uk/cecm/microstation/introduction.html that had an excellent free online course. I think they took it offline though. If...
  19. cudaracer

    2002-2004 xref problems

    We had a similar problem here in the past when we upgraded to 2000 from version 14, you might want to try to open the xref's in 2004, and check how they look as a regular dwg. Also check to see that the layers and text styles are supported by 2004. You might also want to make sure to check that...
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    Problems saving with Microstation Version 8.1

    Hello all, We recently upgraded to microstation version 8.1 and are experiencing problems with saving drawings to the LAN. The automatic save feature no longer works, and when you hit the save icon sometimes the file will save, and sometimes it will not. We did not have this problem in the...

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