AutoCAD 2008 topics

Having trouble with my lineweights on screen

HullDrafter — Tue, 22 May 2012 09:18:16 GMT

I am having trouble with my lines being fat and unworkable, had this once before, can't remember the fix.

Can someone help please.

pdfs not printing entirely

Kazo — Thu, 17 May 2012 23:58:57 GMT

Dont know if this is a CAD thing perse' but quite often my pdf's dont fully print...there can be patches missing. This can be very dangerous as you can imagine as these pdfs can be issued with valuable information missing.

Does anyone have any ideas as to why this happens?

Is it an Adobe problem?

Our CAD manager said purge and audit sometimes works....but even if this is so...does one have to purge and audit every drawing just in case???

plot stamp on a .dxf file

brnrt — Wed, 16 May 2012 16:10:29 GMT

I am using AutoCAD 2008. If I save a .dwg to a .dxf (AutoCAD versions 2007 or 2004) it will not work in ISOGEN. So, I saved the .dxf file with the plot stamp on it to AutoCAD version 12. ISOGEN will accept the .dxf AutoCAD version 12. When I save the .dwg as a .dxf the plot stamp disappears. I manually add the plot stamp to the .dxf file and saved the file. When I reopened the .dxf file, the stamp was no longer there. I need to have the plot stamp on the .dxf. I want to use this .dxf file for ISOGEN. Any ideas?

Mtext stuck in capitol letters

NJPerry — Wed, 16 May 2012 14:21:39 GMT

Somehow the MTEXT command is only using capital letters unless I us the shift key for lower case. Is there a systems variable that controls this?

Use of FIELDS, help please!

ricardo71 — Tue, 15 May 2012 21:02:32 GMT

Hi,

I'm trying to do this: create a field that shows the volume mass property of the 3D objects contained in a layer. When I modifiy the solids, the field update. Is there some way to do this?. I'm newbie in the fields use.

Thanks in advance!

How to install 32 bit AutoCAD MAP 2008 in Win7 64 bit

PRAKASHKJ — Mon, 14 May 2012 06:52:49 GMT

We have a requirement to install 32 bit AutoCAD MAP 2008 into a new workstation having WIN 7 OS 64 bit. During start of installation it's gives error message saying "32 bit cannot be installed in 64 bit".

Is there any way to get it installed without changing OS of new workstation

Dropping to Z=0 several solids

ricardo71 — Thu, 10 May 2012 18:27:32 GMT

Hi,

I have a group of several 3D Solids placed at different elevations. I like to drop them to Z=0, aligning their base plane with the Z=0 world coordinate. I select them all but the "elevation" doesn´t appear at the properties window. Is there some way to drop them all?.

Thanks in advance!

Plotting from window

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Video Card Question

dhpi — Fri, 04 May 2012 21:31:03 GMT

Hi All, We recently replaced the only AutoCAD 2008 machine in our company with a new one, and are now having issues where regeneration of drawings take a long time. The old machine was running an Intel Core 2 6600 at 2.4, 4 gigs of RAM. The new one runs a Core 2 Duo E6550 at 3.33, 4 gigs memory (Precision 390 to T3400). Based just on that, we would not expect to have this issue. I'm speculating however on the suitability of the new video card. The old machine was running a Quadro FX 550. The new one runs a Quadro NVS 290. This was never considered before swapping them out. We do have the latest drivers from NVIDIA on the new machine, but if the card is just unsuitable, that won't help much. I'm feeling very out of my element here (more of a networking guy), but I've been tasked with figuring this out. Any help would be greatly appreciated. I will provide as much additional information as I can upon request.

Printing many .dwg's at once

slade8200 — Fri, 04 May 2012 20:04:39 GMT

There must be a way to do this. I have messed around for awhile trying to figure it out but haven't yet. Do you really need to open each drawing to print it out a certain way? For example, 11x17, monochrome, print extents, landscape, etc. Thanks.

Move / Scale Commands

slade8200 — Fri, 04 May 2012 15:00:14 GMT

On one computer, I used to type "m" for move and "sc" for scale and it would work. I've recently been using another PC and it will not accept these commands. I have to type "move" and "scale". Anyone know how I can get it back to just using "m" and "sc". There's probably other commands that are behaving in this fashion but these are the only two I have tried. Thanks.

Help with aerial photo quality

asienvironmental — Mon, 30 Apr 2012 15:33:08 GMT

I am using AutoCAD Map 3D 2008. I have downloaded .tiff aerials from an online state source (michigan deq). I am inserting them into the dwg via insert>raster image reference. I overlay all my site information.

When I zoom into the area that I want to print, the printed image is always blurry. The zoomed in area is usually a single project site, average small commerical site. My current client wants me to plot onto 24"x36" paper .. and the result is really blurry. The local print shop is wanting me to plot to a pdf, and I have selected 'maximum' for the quality output.

Please help .. I really don't know what to do to make my images crisp. Is there anything I can do?

Viewport scale factors.

HullDrafter — Thu, 26 Apr 2012 13:37:49 GMT

Someone helped me with this before, but I can't find the solution that was presented. I am at a jobsite and one of our computers doesn't have all of the scale factors listed for the viewports. All that is being shown are imperial scale factors, none of the metric ones. Could someone help me with the command to reload all of the scale facotr for the viewports.

Thank you.

Roaming Profile issue (DC 2k8)

fhsc.helpdesk — Thu, 26 Apr 2012 09:47:36 GMT

Hello! I have been having a serious issue with ACA 2008. Everything will be working fine, then I will start ACA and get the following message : "Catalogue file C\Documents and settings \ mike \ Application Data \ Autodesk \ ACD-A 2008 \ enu \ Support \ AcFields.fdc not found ". I click OK and the screen comes up with no menus or pulldowns. All the palettes come up and I can access dwg files from the project browser, but none of the tool palettes work. Repair and re-install don't work: the only way I have found to remedy this is to uninstall ACA and then do a new install. Has anyone come across this before ? I tried with a normal User and does'nt work. I tried User with PC's admin rights and nothing: doesn't work! I can't launch program outside the Domain of our corporation. Any help muchly appreciated! Thanks a lot Nicolò Zamberlan

Plot problem

opriest — Wed, 25 Apr 2012 13:56:49 GMT

I have made a new 3d dwg and can not make it plot all layers. All it will plot is a layer called DIM and color of red.

Any sugestions as to how to solve?

Disable perpendicular snap

Brett2366 — Wed, 25 Apr 2012 10:43:16 GMT

Does anyone know a way of permanently disabling the perpendicular snap, so a user cannot switch it on.

A particular user has an inhibility to draught orthogonal lines, so the use of the perp snap only serves to worsen the situation. Ruining any drawing they get their hands on.

If I turn it off, it just gets turned back on. This is one of the Directors so he will NOT be told. The irony is he complains all the time when dimensioning drawings and the dimensions are all inconsistent.

I've tried politely telling him, he is the one causing it................

Should I put just put correction fluid over the icon?

HELP!!!!

help please guys

moulon — Mon, 23 Apr 2012 18:40:55 GMT

Hi guys, i worked on autocad over 7 years ago as a elec design engineer, and am due to move into the office and start again. Amazingly i forgot the basics.

1 like how to scale my drawing.

2 how to find my drawing in plotter.

this is made a lot harder by the fact i am doing it overseas in a different language.

please refresh my memory, i am sure it will come back

thanks in advance

Newbie question:

LaurenMorgan1212 — Thu, 19 Apr 2012 21:14:45 GMT

I'm trying to simplify my elevation poches to vertical stripes 2' across. Would you use ARRAY or HATCH? Since there are no vertical hatch patterns in my library, how does one create a .pat file?

Thanks in advance!

Lauren:smileyfrustrated:

DWG to PDF - Arcs offset in PDF

jayb — Wed, 18 Apr 2012 19:12:04 GMT

When I plot to PDF in AutoCAD 2008, some arc segments are offsetting. For instance, I am trying to PDF an architectural moulding profile that has several arcs connected end to end. When I plot to the PDF, some of the arcs appear to be offset, and the ends to not meet. I have even tried making them a polyline but this does not help.

Is there a fix for this?

Thanks in advance for any help in this matter.

Is possible to hatch a 3d polyline?

talderman — Tue, 17 Apr 2012 16:57:21 GMT

Trying to hatch the area/region within a 3d polyline is this possible?