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  1. nichall

    Is it worth going to Acad 2004 from Acad 2000

    Autodesk are "retiring" 2000. If you want to upgrade after 15 January 2004, you have to buy a new copy. So is it "worth" upgrading ? It may be worth £2500 (in the UK) Nick
  2. nichall

    AutoCAD conversion to PDF format?

    Use the AutoCAD Postscript printer driver, and Ghostscript to create the PDF files. You will probably have to do a bit of scripting and Lisp etc to decide on the output size. And you will probably need to have seperate plotter configs for each size. I have set this up for a customer, if you...
  3. nichall

    AutoCAD 14 & Autocad 2002 .dwg file sharing

    You could use PDF. Most people have Acrobat Viewer. No extra plugins/programs to download. You can use Ghostscript to make the PDFs. Nick nick.hall@altasystems.co.uk
  4. nichall

    Drawing Security

    Do they really need the DWG files, or is it electronic paper? You may want to think about sending them PDF (Acrobat) files. Nick nick.hall@altasystems.co.uk
  5. nichall

    AutoCAD VBA - Log-in when drawing is opened..

    You can try undefining and redefining the OPEN (& SAVE & QSAVE ?) commands. Write a lisp file that autoloads, that contains something like ... (command "UNDEFINE" "OPEN") (vl-vbaload "C:\\acad\\MyFileRoutines.dvb") (C:OPEN ( / ) (vl-vbarun "MyNewOpen")...
  6. nichall

    Open an Excel worksheet - Tool Button Macro..

    Putting "s around the file name is a limitation of the OS not AutoCAD. It will also work with the application name so (setq app "C:\\Program Files\\Microsoft Office\\Office\\EXCEL.EXE") (setq quoteappname (strcat "\"" app "\"")) (setq quotefilename...
  7. nichall

    Editing the MNC file to create Menus/Keyboard shortcuts..

    You cannot edit the MNC file. You have to edit the MNS file. The "How-To" is in the developer documentation under Custom Menus, but it should be fairly obvious if you edit open the MNS file in Notepad Nick nick.hall@altasystems.co.uk
  8. nichall

    View different layers in different paperspace layouts?

    Borgunit is correct, but it appears that you are confusing FREEZE with FREEZE IN CURRENT VIEWPORT. What you should do is 1 Click in the viewport you want to freeze layers in 2 Click the layer dialog button 3 Scroll to the right 4 Freeze the layers in the "Current" column 5 Click...
  9. nichall

    Qustion about the hatch pattern dialog box

    You can break the patterns down into single files, with the same name as the hatch. ie NICK.PAT contains *NICK,45 degree lines 45, 0,0, 0,0.5 These can be stored in a seperate directory (say C:\HATCH) which will then need to be added to the path using CONFIG. These patterns will then appear...
  10. nichall

    Autocad 2000 no worky w/HP8000N printer

    You imply that you did an inplace upgrade of your OS from W98 to W2k. Hindsight is a wonderful thing, but in my experience, a new install is always better than an upgrade, especially when you are talking about operating systems. Nick nick.hall@altasystems.co.uk
  11. nichall

    AutoCad Open and Save Config

    Also, if command line versions of the AutoCAD commands are appearing, you can set CMDDIA to 1. Nick nick.hall@altasystems.co.uk
  12. nichall

    Using VB 6.0 to create Acrobat files.

    If you use Distiller to create PDF's, yes. The current password is stored in the Registry, can't remember where, and it gets used when Distiller creates a PDF. If you need more detail let me know. Nick nick.hall@altasystems.co.uk
  13. nichall

    Autocad 2000 with Windows 2000 restricted users.

    Alternatively, if your users are logging into a domain, you can give local Power User rights to the Domain User. Start | Settings | Control Panel | Users and Passwords Select Advanced Tab & click Advanced Select Groups | Power Users Choose Menu Actions | Add to Group Click Add Select your...
  14. nichall

    Need Help With Script File!!!!

    When you say > The title block in each drawing varies in size. > Some title blocks are 17x11, some are 8.5x11, > and some are 24x18. Is there a way to get around > this problem as well? Do the blocks all have the same name, but are drawn differently ? Or do they have different names and you...
  15. nichall

    Need Help With Script File!!!!

    Not with a script alone. You will need 1) A batch file to call each drawing in turn 2) A script file to tell AutoCAD what to do 3) A Lisp or VBA program to update the block If you don't feel up to it yourself, I'll put some sample files together for you. You will need to let me know the...
  16. nichall

    Using VB 6.0 to create Acrobat files.

    I have done something similar using a number of applications that print to the Distiller printer. My routines monitor the Distiller output directory, wait for the output PDF file to appear, and then move it to my chosen destination. The script is written in Perl, but it's not very clever and it...
  17. nichall

    AutoCAD and MS Access Database

    You can use VBA to read/write Access databases Here is an example of reading a table Dim wrkJet As Workspace Dim dbsDrawing As Database Dim strDatabase As String Dim strQuery As String Dim rstTemp As Recordset strDatabase = "test.mdb" Set wrkJet =...
  18. nichall

    AutoCAD LISP Help!

    Some help on the script you would need Something similar to the code between the --- goes in a batch file (from for to go.scr is one line) ie PROCESS.BAT in the same directory as your drawings. --- @echo off for %%f in (*.dwg) do "C:\Program Files\AutoCAD 2002\acad.exe" %%f /b...
  19. nichall

    Fatal Error

    I recently found a document on Autodesk's knowledge base (http://support.autodesk.com/) that details a number of Unhandled Access Violation Exception errors. It may be of some help. Search for TS67088. Nick nick.hall@altasystems.co.uk
  20. nichall

    converting .dwg files to .pdf files

    You can't do insert PDFs as images directly. You will have to convert it to one of the supported image formats such as JPG, BMP etc. There are a number of conversion programs available (both free and commercial) that will do this with varying degrees of success. You could insert it as an OLE...

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