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Hi
I wanted to ask how to change settings in 3D Plant.
When I highlight some pipe symbols (plus, arrows) are shown as big, how I can make them smaller?
I can send a picture of the screen and show what I mean.
Best regards
Dmitri

Hi Kate,

I am working on the create attributes exercise and step 7 says to click the insert field.  I am in the attribute definition window and there is no insert field.  Please help.

Sincerely,

Jackie Keiser

Can I mask an area of a viewport on a layout tab? 

Such as when I have made a large viewport and later wish to add another smaller viewport within a specific area without reworking the orginal viewport.

Hi Kate, I am an AutoCad LT user. I have been sent some drawings in dwf file, but can't open these in LT, and I would like to print them as well.

Can you help me with this please.

Mike.P

Hi Kate,

What are the different ways to transfer licenses between two computers for AutoCAD Software ?

Thanks

Sunith Babu L

Hi, Kate,

My partner is shifting our platform to Apple based products across the board. We have one AutoCAD LT license ( loaded on my office computer and my laptop, as per standard license agreement) and on PC platform.

First,  do we have to purchase new software to work for Apple, and second, is the original license transferable if we remove the PC versions?

I'm embarrassed that I have to ask this because it seems like a basic component but I'm having some issues getting Excel 2007 charts to paste as a linked object in LT 2010.  I don't know where else to go for help.  What is the best way to got those charts into my drawing and have them link?

Hello, I am just completly bewilder with my AutoCAD Architecture 2010...the view will not returm to top view from left view intact.

A friend asked me the question and I'm hoping you can answer it for me.

He uses/used Microstation and has a fair amoutn of drawings he would like to convert to AutoCad. Has AutoCad the inbuilt facitie to convert Microstation file format to AutoCad format?

And if so which version of AutoCad can do this?

Regards Dave

i would like to view and modify pantone colours on autocad lt 2004, is this possible?
are there any downloads to enable me to do this, or what is the earliest version of lt that would allow this?

Hi Kate,

I recently re-installed AutoCAD 2009 on my machine and now it seems that publishing to dwf does not work.  Not sure what to do at this point.  Thanks for your help!

Hi Kate,

Can I save a DWF as a DWG?

Hi Katie,

I have some users who open moderately sized drawings of about 15-20 meg each and they are having major lag times.  The average machine has 3-4 gigs of ram, and ranges from 2.4 to 3.0 Ghz multi-thread processors.  It can take up to 2-5 minutes and may require up to 1.5-2 gigs of ram, what might we do to resolve this?

Tom

Dear Kate,
I just purchased a new computer with Windows 7 home edition and upgraded to Professional but the processor does not meet the requirement for hardware-assisted virtualization.

I'm going to exchange for a new one that has a Duo Core processor.
I want to install AutoCAD LT 2000. Will it work if I upgrade to Professional?

Hello Kate,

I'm running AutoCAD LT 2010.

Is there any way to implement arctext?

Thanks

Rob Bush

Hi Kate,

I wrote to you earlier about my publishing not working - hopefully this is enough information.  Here's what happens - I load my .dsd file, check my publish options and page setup, then hit "Publish" and it appears to be publishing because the "Publish in Progress" symbol is working.  However, when the "Plot and Publish Job Complete" balloon comes up - it says "There are no plot or publish details to view" and there is no dwf file in the location that I set it to save in.  I've done this with a group of files and it does not get hung up or give me any errors while publishing.  It appears to run all the way through and still I get the "There are no plot or publish details to view" message.   I've also tested this with a single drawing and get the same result.  Thanks for your help.

Kate,

Are there any current web tutorials for Impressions. All of them in the tips and tricks are expired. Thanks!

It might be of interest that my PC has AMD Athlon 64 Processor, which I take to be 64 bit.  However, it was the 64 bit version of the MEASUREGEOM hotfix that I orginally downloaded that didn't work.  When I tried the 32 bit version, as you suggested, it did work.

Am I missing something here?

Hi Kate,

I am using AutoCAD 2010 LT and I had to copy and paste a bunch of text from Word into cad.  I just copied it and pasted it into columns with mtext in cad.  Then I just used the enter key to move the text around within the columns.  It looks fine and everything is fine.  Then, my client wants it in ver. 2004, but when I save back to 2004 everything withing the mtext columns goes haywire!  Any suggestions? Sorry, I'm kind of new to this...

Jen

Hi Kate, I am adding AutoCAD functionality to a website that I am doing, and on the site the user sumbits an autocad file (local users only) and the site takes the file - but I want to be able to interrogate the drawing and get the materials/dimensions from the design.  How would I do this and would I need to install a full version of AutoCAD on the web server.

Can I get sample code to parsing an AutoCAD drawing?

this is for, perhaps, your oldest fans.I have DOS release 12. the message following the C prompt reads,

"Please correct display adapter/configuration inconsistency.

FATAL ERROR: Can't start display driver."

Autocad will not move from this except to the C prompt. entering files and commands only respone, "Bad command or file name" entering "Dir" gives me a list of files including the ones I'm currently working on.

Please advise me as how to get into my autocad 12.

How can I change a hatch scale in one direction only?

Hi Kate,

Regarding question #29, i made the hatch a block and went to the properties pallete. It only let me edit the x-value for scale. When i tried that, it still scaled the hatch/block proportionally and not in one direction. Please help.

Thank you.

Hi, I am the IT Support person for a college and am in the process of testing our various applications on the Windows 7 platform. Our ACAD license server is on a windows 2003 server, and it is functioning correctly with our Windows XP clients. I was trying to install AutoCAD on windows 7, but when I try to enter the name of the license server I get an error saying it either does not exist or is not available. I have checked that LMGRD is running and everything appears to be in order. I have tried specifying the license server with its DNS name as well as IP.

Thank you in advance

Hi Kate, thanks for your speedy response, but when I click on the link you suggested
http://usa.autodesk.com/adsk/servlet/ps/item?siteID=123112&id=11258669&linkID=9240617

It comes up with a page not found error

hello,

i'm using acad2009 educational version. i think the original file was created in acad2007.

now i can't open the file.

the message box says "drawing file is not valid"

could this be the problem?

thank you,

brian

I’m having a new plotting error with raster images (Autocad 2008), which I wasn’t prior about one year ago (Autocad 2004).  My project has been on hold for about a year until now, so I am working on the same exact files I worked on previously.  Several drawings have rasters in them which are faded back per the Image Adjust settings below...

Brightness = 50

Contrast = 50

Fade = 80

A year ago all of the drawings printed the way I needed…..the image background printed white, and the linework within the image printed faded (grey).  The project has been dormant until now, but now when I plot the exact same drawings the image background prints dark grey, and the linework within the image prints black.  I have done no changes to any images or image settings, and as a double check I have tried plotting drawings that I have either recently worked on, or not even touched since prior to about a year ago.  Saving drawings to an earlier version of Autocad (2004, 2000) does not work either.  When I preview a plot, it looks correct, but when I plot to a printer or to a PDF, the image fade is incorrect as per above.  The only change I know of that's happened is that I've been upgraded from Autocad 2004 to 2008.  Is there an options setting that needs to be checked /unchecked to resolve this?

Thanks!

thank you for your reply but unfortunately that didn't solve my problem. i downloaded the trueview and tried opening my file and it said dwg file is not valid...i was the one who opened it in the first place, then saved it and exited acad. now that i'm trying to open it again it must have gotten corrupt. i'd be glad to send you the file if you're interested. i'll keep trying.

thank you

Back to Question 33

The guy that saves the file in Mechanical Desktop says when he tries to save it in a lower version the system will not let him.  He tried it in a dxf file and it saved fine.  But when I pulled it up I could not see the drawing.

Also does saving at 2006 or below work for inventor?

Regarding Question #35 (raster image plotting problem)

Thanks for the reply.  Yes I tried toggling tranparency on/off but there is no effect.  The images are 16-color grey scale tiffs (although there really only is black linework on a white background in them).  Transparency only works for 2-color B&W images anyway, right?

Yes I have tried multiple plotters (PDF and hardcopy), and even had someone from another office try.  They get the same results.

A lot of the drawings (set up the same way) have been untouched for about a year, and they plotted fine back then.  The only cause I can attribute this to is being upgraded from 2004 to 2008, or 2008 has some kind of default setting (when it's installed) that is different from 2004.  Maybe it is something else, I don't know...

Basic drawing setup was and is...

16-color grey scale tiff raster-referenced into Model Space and placed in the back using Draw Order/Display Order

CAD linework on top of image in Model Space

Viewport in Paper Space showing Model Space linework and image

Callouts in Paper Space

"Plot Paper Space Last" selected when plotting so it plots on top