--------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 146 AUTOCAD Ref: E3V00000 Date: 03/09/97 From: ROBIN CLAY Time: 01:02pm \/To: IAN UNDERWOOD (Read 3 times) Subj: Import Hello Ian ! -=> 05-Mar-97 21:43:12, you to Antonio Remez IU> I imported a .dwg file into Acad12 which was originally created IU> and exported from a 3D-modeller package You don't say what package that is, nor how you exported it... IU> The problem is that the export package had used mixed case IU> for the linetype names ! IU> Clearly the mixed case is illegal and Acad cannot cope! Perhaps you could Export it as a .DXF file, and then run that through a "Capitaliser" ? > Robin --- Terminate 4.00/Pro * Origin: Coming to you from Osmaniye, Southern Turkey (2:250/410.32) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 146 AUTOCAD Ref: E3V00001 Date: 03/23/97 From: IAN UNDERWOOD Time: 04:32pm \/To: VINCENT KAYE (Read 3 times) Subj: A_CAD message echo Hello Vincent, 20-Mar-97 18:26:00, Vincent Kaye did write to Ian Underwood Subject: A_CAD message echo IU>>> Clearly the mixed case is illegal and Acad cannot cope! VK> One thing you should know about Acad...no strange imports or VK> exports...One should deal with the software in a very respectful VK> manner...Just like your family structure and no strangers allowed. VK> The sooner you realize that, the better off you will be in the VK> world of CAD! Or the sooner Autodesk realize why I'm investigating importing 2-d drawings from someone elses 3-D modeller................ But it was rather encouraging to find the export in .dwg format, not exclusively in iges or dxf So we are about to have 3D modeller package installed (not Pro e as it happens, too much hype, big cost of ownership) Best Regards, -=> _*:Ian:*_ <=- Ian.Underwood@axiombbs.traffcom.co.uk --- Terminate 4.10b16/Pro*at Test_Ter5_+Termail+Terpgp * Origin: 400Ter=Qwk/PointSystem in a Jam style message base! (2:253/9.3) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 146 AUTOCAD Ref: E3V00002 Date: 03/25/97 From: BOB WESTERMAN Time: 05:16pm \/To: ALL (Read 3 times) Subj: Acad 12 DOS and win 95 Hello All! Well I've avoided it as long as I can. Now I have to figure out if it's possible to run Acad 12 DOS and SoftDesk's AdCadd Civil Survey package in a win 95 DOS box. I know it's real easy to just boot DOS instead, and that's what I'm doing for now, but if anyone has a proven setup to run in a window please share it. Later, Bob --- timEd/2-B11 * Origin: Politically Incorrect (412) 766-0743 (1:129/283) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 146 AUTOCAD Ref: E3W00000 Date: 03/26/97 From: GARY JOHNSON Time: 07:20pm \/To: ALL / ANYONE (Read 3 times) Subj: HP 7475A plotter I have just picked up a used HP 7475A plotter and there was not manuals with it. Would anyone have a set of manuals for it they would want to sell or loan/copy? Gary J --- FMail 0.96 * Origin: Klingon Outpost BBS (1:203/151) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 146 AUTOCAD Ref: E3Y00000 Date: 03/24/97 From: IAN UNDERWOOD Time: 10:27pm \/To: ROBIN CLAY (Read 3 times) Subj: Import Hello Robin, 09-Mar-97 13:02:09, Robin Clay did write to Ian Underwood RC> -=> 05-Mar-97 21:43:12, you to Antonio Remez Subject: Import IU>> I imported a .dwg file into Acad12 which was originally created IU>> and exported from a 3D-modeller package RC> You don't say what package that is, nor how you exported it... Correct, I didn't, but I DID say how it was exported ... as a .dwg - I guess the above para wasn't emphatic enough IU>> The problem is that the export package had used mixed case for IU>> the linetype names ! Clearly the mixed case is illegal and Acad IU>> cannot cope! RC> Perhaps you could Export it as a .DXF file, and then run that RC> through a "Capitaliser" ? Nope, I'm more interested in getting my hands on the 3d-modeller and letting Acad have the F-elevation, S-elevations and Iso-metric views with having any problems in drawing them (construction wise) What's a capitaliser? -=> _*:Ian:*_ <=- Ian.Underwood@axiombbs.traffcom.co.uk --- Terminate 4.10b16/Pro*at Test_Ter5_+Termail+Terpgp * Origin: A well connected point, even if I do say it from (2:253/9.3) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 146 AUTOCAD Ref: E3Z00000 Date: 03/29/97 From: KERRY VINSON Time: 02:52pm \/To: ALL (Read 2 times) Subj: BBS Suicide Watch NOTE: This message was originally in conference "Yet Another One" and was copied here by Kerry Vinson. ...from the home of kv_Soft! the ͸ R.A T I F A Turbo C++ U.N D E R G R O U N D QuickBasic D.E V E L O P M E N T Visual Basic M.O N A S T E R Y Turbo Assembler ; Open 24hrs for you to get that BBS fix! St.Louis,Mo,USA * 314-225-5736 * V34 * Fido 1:100/591 The above information in its entirety is what you will see when you open a file from RUDM. That original display will no longer be published. Also on the Final Exit list appears the complete ANSI collection. Those contents are hereby granted public property and will be published for general consumption. The total roster for the Final Exit appears to be up to two BBSes per day although no other sysops have requested the asylum whitherthoust must take within the first minute of April Fool's Day. MoRe to Follow And you think this isn't the funniest gawdamn thing you have ever heard? You may not yet witnessed the effects of many netmail packets and echomail bundles my friend! @ I say! From http://www.partyline.net/rudmweb is R.U.D.M. BBS in St.Louis

R.U.D.M. History

Officially went online November 26, 1993 using Wildcat 2.6. After only two weeks, the system went to TriBBS v5.0. During the TriBBS days, much third party software was produced from R.U.D.M., most of which is still in circulation but unsupported by me.

After slowly growing gastrointestinally -sick- from dealing with a real $#|+head of an author affectionately known as markie, well known for operating various scams and rackets out of the far northeastern part of the United States, change was inevitable! Therefore, R.U.D.M. began operating under Maximus 2.00 in January of 1995 and upgraded through 2.01wb and 2.02. Thanks to the generosity of Lawrence Gordon, sysop of Toast House BBS here in St.Louis, we began using Wildcat 3.9 around March of 1995 and upgraded to version 4 shortly thereafter. We have no plans to change the BBS software again anytime soon. :-)

Note that TriBBS is no longer owned by that same author and is currently being developed by Mr. Gary Price. We wish him the best of wishes and good luck for success.

In addition to Wildcat 4.1x, we use FrontDoor 2.12sw+ for the mailer, InterEcho for the tosser, Allfix! for Wildcat! for the file echo processor, and Silver Xpress as an additional offline mail door.

R.U.D.M. has been a member of ToadNet since January of '94, and FidoNet since April of '94. Originally inspired to serve both professional and amateur computer programmers in the St.Louis area, it also serves up the latest files and lots of messages. We also feature a few door games. I guess the main focus would be geeky stuff like programming and computer technical schtuff…

The BBS machine itself is an old 386dx40 DOS box with 4mb RAM running the real-mode redirectors from Windows for Workgroups. It features an EGA card and monitor, two CDROMS accessible from the BBS software, and a small 180mb hard drive to accommodate local temp files. The BBS software/files are located on a network.

We really don't care about any of this crap anymore, though. The BBS is only alive these days because I have a second line for internet access, so why not keep it going just for the hell of it?

Uhh, So what the hell is a Ratifa??

Ratifa was one of my favorite rats. She was born in Temecula, out in Southern California, and came to the midwest when we did. She had a dark golden coat with splotches of black scattered all over. Fierce in her younger years, she grew to be quite a tame rodent. The perfect girl!

She lived to be just over two years old before being killed by one of her offspring. She is now burind in an unmarked grave next to a creek in a remote part of Ellisville, Mo. We have not been to visit since her untimely passing, but we do think of her from time to time.

Ok, so that's a bit dramatized... She was still one helluva pet! And as a tribute to her existance, her name will stay alive in this abstract place we call cyberspace... Rest in peace, sweetheart...

Last updated 02/02/97 -- hits since 12/28/96

R.U.D.M. main page

Twas the code.. Gee, Larry, what do you say to a place you can always have a small web page? When the time is right I'm going to run all night and yes. Future predictions coming true shortly will happen like this. If I have disk space, you have a free web page at www.kerry.vinson.com. Especially welcome are Kathy Ireland, Cybil Shepherd, the healthy bodies found at fitness-beach.com, and something universally related or so. Time for mentally to take a growing leap past a pain. But as they say comes comet for Final Exit. Wow let's just pfhreak the pfhuck out! Final Exit * WCE 2.1G1/2457 * oh my god the end is near i can feel it --- InterEcho 1.19 * Origin: R.U.D.M. BBS in St.Louis * 314-225-5736 * v34 (1:100/591) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 146 AUTOCAD Ref: E3Z00001 Date: 03/29/97 From: KERRY VINSON Time: 12:47am \/To: ALL (Read 2 times) Subj: Suicide is painless.. NOTE: This message was originally in conference "Yet Another One" and was copied here by Kerry Vinson. From: Kerry Vinson [vinsonkm@partyline.net] Subject: ..another ritual suicide coming soon.. Say, the Ratifa Underground Development Monastery dial-up BBS will officially commit suicide with Toast House to commence April 1st at 12:01am. It will be a quick and painful death, and rather scary in that we run the same software on our BBSes. Yes it is short notice, but that is brilliant. After all, Hale-Bop will come the closest to our physical bodies on Earth approximately 5 hours or so after the Final Exit. At approximately 12:01am on April Fool's Day, our BBSes will make the Final Exit and power down until after the comet has passed over us... One thing is certain, however. Although we will no longer function as BBSes, we will most likely be put to better use. R.U.D.M. will become a telnettable interface one way or another real soon after the Final Exit. Let us just pfhreak the pfhuck out oh brothers and sisters! As many of you may be aware, we will also have a firewall, mail, web, news, ftp, telnet, and much more. This next step in the higher evolution of the Ratifa Undergound Development Monastery is to travel to the new destination following the death and birth with Hale-Bopp to become the new home of RUDMweb. RUDMweb will always be accessible. MorE details following the Final Exit. MorE about the Final Exit. Mark my words, there will be a sudden increase in global suicides around the time Hale-Bopp makes its closest distance to the Earth. As BBSes and people alike know, that comet is the trailblazing force of the collection of something right behind it. God, are we ever listening! It could very well be a universal truth that the type of enormous energy behind it is a seduction. It could also be said that it is our ride, on to the next level of our existance, the massive soul that keeps rolling and is well best put in Paradise Lost. However, it is the clear sign of what must happen. R.U.D.M. loves you all. And if I don't hear from you, maybe I'll see you on the other side... * WCE 2.1G1/2457 * Get _what~ in your eye? * http://www.rudm.vinson.com --- InterEcho 1.19 * Origin: R.U.D.M. BBS in St.Louis * 314-225-5736 * v34 (1:100/591) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 146 AUTOCAD Ref: E3^00000 Date: 03/29/97 From: STEWART KERRIGAN Time: 07:58pm \/To: KEN ROSHONG (Read 3 times) Subj: AutoCad Drawings KR>Doe's anyone have any drawings of Sports Cars, done in AutoCad? KR>I would like to find some, that I could open in AutoCad, and then print ut KR>y plotter. I have a HP Design Jet 220, takes up to "D" size. Thanks for ny KR>y. Ken, If you have access to the World Wide Wait, visit Viewpoint Datalabs at www.viewpoint.com/freestuff/5free/ You will find 3-D wireframe dawings in several formats, including DXF. The 1993 archive includes a '57 Chevy. That's the closest thing I see to a sports car (for free). Anybody know where I can find a yacht or sailboat? ___ SLMR 2.1a IDE if Fine, but SCSI id Divine. --- GEcho 1.20/Pro * Origin: The CatWalk BBS Davie, Fl 305-370-3528 USR V.EveryThing (1:369/8) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 146 AUTOCAD Ref: E3^00001 Date: 03/30/97 From: LUK STENUIT Time: 01:42am \/To: ALL (Read 3 times) Subj: render Hi All! Trying to get the best out of render-images. Is there a way to render so that non horizontal/vertical lines (sides of faces) are not broken, but as straight as are the horizontal/vertical lines? I'm trying to get images which are more detailed, I suppose... Using R13-WinNt, display 1280x1024, 16-bit colors. Greetings! -= LukS =- --- Terminate 4.00/Pro * Origin: From The Secret Laboratory (2:292/506.17) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 146 AUTOCAD Ref: E4200000 Date: 04/01/97 From: STAN BIMSON Time: 12:07am \/To: ALL (Read 3 times) Subj: A_CAD message echo Echo Tag: A_CAD Description: International AutoCAD/CAD Conference An echo for users of Autodesk's AutoCAD(tm), for the discussion of any aspect of this PC based CAD software. Utilities, third party software, both commercial and shareware, tips, tricks and programming of menus, font or shape files, LISP and scripts have all been talked about. All levels of users abound. Advertisements of products by vendors of any type or personal ads to sell software or hardware are NOT welcome. Users may discuss their use of any CAD related software/hardware product or service. Many other CAD applications have been discussed and are considered on topic. Rule File: A_CAD.RUL International AutoCAD/CAD Conference 04/03/91 Updated: 02/27/92 o The main topic of this echo conference is AutoCAD(tm) and the use of it, add on products like third party or shareware software, required hardware, utilities, tips, tricks and programming of any facet of ACAD. Other CAD or PC CAD is also open for discussion. o Advertisements of products or services by vendors of any type or personal ads to sell software or hardware are NOT welcome. o File listings are highly frowned upon but new file announcements that would benefit "the topic" will be permitted, within reason. o Product or Service announcements fall under advertisements and are not allowed. The one, and only one exception will be official "Update" announcements from Autodesk about AutoCAD(tm). o Foul or harsh language is not tolerable and will not be accepted. If you don't like what someone has to say for personal reasons, send them a reply using netmail - not echomail. o Some echoes allow aliases, but I tend not to want them. I think most of the professionals here want to KNOW who they are dealing with. I prefer full names used in the echo. o This conference is not bound by FidoNet, it's open to any network and system that wish to carry the conference. Messages in this conference should confirm with the FTSC (FidoNet Technical Standards Committee) format and must contain a tear and origin line. The tear line may not be longer than 35 characters including the --- characters. The origin line must fit on one 80 character wide CRT including the " # Origin: " text. o Eight-bit ASCII is not allowed in this conference. All characters in displayed message data (text/header) must be in the range 32 to 126, which rules out control characters. Control character can be shown as ^@ through ^_ for 0 to 31 or any character can be noted as . o Offline readers abound and offer system callers an excellent way of reading and replying to messages. These readers need to be configured to compile with the rule (above) on 8 bit ASCII characters. Make sure that your reader is configured to compile with FidoNet's standards (in all respects). o First rule of any echo is leave the moderating to the moderator. I am the moderator, if you have a problem with someone, tell me about it, don't post flames, etc. in the conference. I will take whatever appropriate action I see fit. o Treat others as you wish to be treated yourself. Last Rule: Don't be annoying nor be easily annoyed. A_CAD Moderator: Stan Bimson Fidonet 1:116/32 RBBSnet 8:967/108 PCGnet 9:518/332 --- MsgPost 1.1 * Origin: Moderator's Monthly Post (1:116/32)