Re: DBUG> New and old questions about DC+ & DC8.x

[Cabinet d'Architecture Madou HILLENIUS <archi@guetali.fr>]

Thank you very much, Gary. It was most kind of you to answer my
questions. 

Some of your replies about new features has made me very eager to
use DC+, but some others have raised a little doubt too. 

On Tue, 16 May 2000 13:51:36 -0400, gary@datacad.com wrote:

>On Tue, 16 May 2000 14:43:14 +0400, you wrote:
>
>DataCADPlus reads .dc5 files directly. It does not have to import
>them. It has an option when you open the file to do a check for
>drawing integrity. In addition DataCADPlus can use most of your
>DataCAD dcx macros, your DataCAD tpl and sm3 files and your DataCAD
>layer files (lyr).
>DataCAD 8.52 can read a dc+ file and can also read ly+ layers and sm+
>symbols. DataCAD 8.52 is currently avaialble for free download from
>the DataCAD web site www.datacad.com

I'm very disappointed that there is no support for DC8.0 and
lower. Exchange of files is nearly impossible in offices and
among individual users who co-operate with others who still use
one of the lower versions. 
I wrote "nearly impossible" as the exchange can only be done via
the foreign DXF or DWG format. A lot of the work already done in
DC+ will be lost or deformed. 

Are there plans for the near future to add that DC5-translation
feature to DC+ itself, or as a separate program/macro available
to all DC-fivers? 

I still remember the contempt the forum members expressed for
AutoCAD Architectural Desktop, which file format was incompatible
with the majority of other versions of  AutoCAD. 

>>-DC+ has no True Type Fonts, but does it has a choice out of more
>>than one font that can write letters with accents?
>It has the following fonts that support letters with accents
>HLV-850
>HLV-852
>HLV-852B
>HLV-866

Only Helvetica; this still seems rather meagre. English together
with Latin are the only European languages that I can think of,
without accents on letters. DC+, with its German origin, surely
must have some extra fonts.

>>-Does HLR make its memory use grow excessively? 
>>(I have a 10 Meg project that needs up to 600 Meg for a
>>perspective view. When it is finished I have to leave DataCAD en
>>restart it to liberate some memory for the next HLR.)
>I believe it handles memory management in a similar fashion but should
>clear the memory buffer upon completion of the HLR. The swap file
>space necessary for the dcadhid.swp varies from file to file. 600MB
>sounds excessive.

Ha, that is what I think too! It slows down the machine, just as
it needs all the speed it can get.

Salutations.
Don MATERMAN
Ile de la Réunion


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