Re: Need help retrieving .ASV and various other woes

[kevin benjamin <kbenj@shore.net>]

On Tue, 1 Nov 1994, Wendy Staub wrote:

Okay, Wendy, I'll take a stab (BAD pun!) at trying to answer your 
questions briefly..
	1) You have to change the suffix of the .ASV file to .DC5 before 
datacad will load it.  Datacad should have prompted you to do this before 
you tried to load the old one.  If it did, and you DID change the name, and 
it won't load, then your file is probably corrupted, possibly irretreivably.

	2) It's probably easier to do things like cutout porches by 
modeling the individual components separately. Voids are a tricky way to 
achieve the detail you are after.  That being said, i think the problem 
you are having with the void command has to do with registration - unless 
the two slabs are exactly aligned, the process won't work.

	3)  (a)I'm not sure, but I don't believe you can access that information 
after theobject has been created.  It sure would be nice if you could, 
though. (b) and making it interactive would be REALLY cool. 

	4) A sad fact of modeling life is that the more complicated the model, 
i.e., the  more objects it contains, the more operations the computer 
has to process, and the longer it takes.  Even with today's faster 
machines, I sometimes have to let a complicated model cook for 20 hours 
before it is completely done. (Imagine what it was like back when a 386/25  was the 
hottest machine around!) (or even a 286, eh, Evan?)   AEC_MODL objects 
are marvelously  detailed, but the price yu pay for that detail  is in the 
tim  it takes to "hide" them.  Beyond choosing your views carefully and 
judiciously turning of layers that cannot be seen, there are  several tricks 
for simplifying models using the "paste-on" elevation technique, but  you should 
probably ask Evan for the approrpate  portions of Cheap tricks about those. 

	5) Not yet. But, if we are to believe the developers of Cadkey Windows 
product, in the words of those notorious AT&T commercials,  "you will".

     Good luck!

     KB