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  1. jonpdrew

    titleblock symbols

    Does anyone know the name of the CAD symbol used in titleblocks that is basically a view of a cylinder. it has a top view and a side view. I need to find this thing and I have no clue what it is called or where to find it. Jon
  2. jonpdrew

    TOC link to paperspace tabs

    O.K. Here is another paperspace tab question. Is there a way to have say a table of contents in a tab with hot links that allow a person to immediately go to a certain tab. I am trying to prevent scrolling endlessly through a large amount of tabs in paperspace. Again, any help would be...
  3. jonpdrew

    infinite tabs in paper space?

    Hi all, Is there a limit to the amount of paperspace tabs in AutoCAD? I have a possible project that may require a couple hundred tabs per CAD file. I've never had more than about 25 up so I really don't know the limit. Any help would be appreciated. Jon
  4. jonpdrew

    paperspace scaling in 2006

    I have a titleblock in paperspace. For the past year I have been using ctrl 1 to bring up the properies menu and adjusting my scale to whatever I have drawn at 1 to 1 in modelspace. This then allows me to print out at 1 to 1 and my drawings are 3/4" = 1", 1/2" = 1", whatever. Well, today I...
  5. jonpdrew

    IGES command

    I think I'm going crazy, in the Insert menu for AutoCAD 2005 the IGES command is there and works fine. In AutoCAD 2006 it is not there. Did Autodesk in it's infinite wisdom do away with the IGES in the latest version? Jon
  6. jonpdrew

    publish command

    Heres my problem... I need to have my various layouts within a drawing batch plotted as pdf files according to the layout name I give it. What I'm getting is if I have say 10 layouts in a drawing called XX, the publish commmand will grab all 10 files and list them in the sheet name column but...
  7. jonpdrew

    XP Pro password change countdown

    I may have asked this before but I can't find the thread or answer. I have XP Pro on one machine and it is now telling me that I have 10 days to change the password. I have another machine with XP Pro and I have had the same password for 3 years. How do I keep the first machine from wanting me...
  8. jonpdrew

    Disabling floppy drive

    I have an old Gateway 450 Pentium 3. I added in a newer dvd drive a while back and for some reason I had to unplug my floppy drive (super drive) or the dvd player would not work. So for quite sometime now the computer looks for the floppy on start up and I need to push the ESC key so it will...
  9. jonpdrew

    Autodesk and my bloodpressure

    Without going on too much of a rant, I just gotta say I am sick and tired of whomever it is at Autodesk that feels the need to constantly screw with this program. In my opinion the last decent version was R14. Ever since then things have gone down hill. I'm from the Generation X crowd so I love...
  10. jonpdrew

    pdf file size

    Does anyone have any idea about how to bring the file size of a pdf down. I'm creating simple furniture elevation drawings in 2000i and my pdf files are running about 225k to 250k. I'm using adobe distiller and my client says the files are too large. Other files I see from my clients other...
  11. jonpdrew

    exporting rendered CAD files

    Hi all, I posted a similar question on the Adobe Illustrator forum... Is there a way to render out a solid, have AutoCAD 2000i perform the solprof on the rendering and then export as a DXF so I can bring the rendered image into Adobe Illustrator. I'm trying to streamline my technical...
  12. jonpdrew

    Rendered CAD to Illustrator?

    Hi all, I create my 3D artwork in AutoCAD 2000i, then view define the wireframe solid so it is merely a 2D line drawing which then gets saved as a DXF. From there I import the DXF into Illustrator 10 and I have a perfect line drawing that I can turn into a nice colored illustration. So my...
  13. jonpdrew

    -model.plt on every plot

    I was wondering why does AutoCAD stick a -model.plt on the end of every drawing name when I create a plot file? I am working in model space but is there a way to shut this off? I just want the name.plt. Do I need to switch tabs before i print or what? Any help is appreciated. Jon
  14. jonpdrew

    joining splines

    Hi All, I have brought in a 2D profile of a 3D drawing from AutoCAD by way of copy and paste. Most of my curves in AutoCAD ended up being splines and they are the same in illustrator. I can't seem to join the splines like I would a normal line that resides in illustrator and I need to put...
  15. jonpdrew

    Win XP and Norton Internet Security 2005

    Hi all, I need some advice at trying to get Norton Internet Security 2005 up and running on my inlaws P.O.S Walmart HP computer. Anyhow it has XP and I've turned off the XP firewall and auto update, but the Norton software aborts the install program. There wasn't another anivirus program on...
  16. jonpdrew

    plines and plt files

    Here is my problem, I have to create plt files from AutoCAd 2000i and import them into Coreldraw 11. The CAD drawings are horizontal and vertical section views of windows and doors. All the individual parts have hatching with the perimeter of the individual parts being plines. These are then...
  17. jonpdrew

    AI file size

    Is there a way to bring the file size down in Illustrator10? I have a file that is a brick wall and is made up of a bitmap texture file, red color and some vector line art. I had to jump between PS and AI to complete this and the size is approaching 400MB...yes you read it right 400MB. The...
  18. jonpdrew

    Layer lockup

    A co-worker has the problem of a sort of layer lock up. When she receives a drawing file from someone, That drawing is locked on whatever layer the last person saved the drawing on. This layer then becomes the default layer and cannot be changed. Nothing in the layers menu shows that anything...
  19. jonpdrew

    XP Pro Doesn't Recognize DVD-ROM

    First a little background... I had win98se and that OS ran my old DVD-ROM perfectly. I then upgraded to XP Pro and the DVD-ROM quit working. It seems there were no drivers for that DVD-ROM for XP Pro. So I decided to by a new Artec Diablo DVD-ROM that says it is compatible with XP The new OS...
  20. jonpdrew

    Line Weights

    Is there a command in Illustrator 10 that can make a line weight fade from say .5 to .25? Basically fade from a heavier line weight to a lighter one. I would think this would come in handy for technical illustration, especially for holes or highlites, and would help make a drawing...

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