The grass is always greener - NOT

[Ted Blockley <webarch@kern.com>]

During a very slow FTP session, I looked in a couple of CAD
newsgroups. 
I found a few amusing replies, I hope you don't mind seeing them
here.

>From the Autocad Newsgroup (comp.cad.autocad):

>If you can grab the two endpoints that are touching where the line was
>extended with a crossing box 
>without messing up something else, you can
>STRETCH either line to the end point of the other. 
>This leaves a line of 0 length that has to be erased. 

VersaCad has a cammand called weld...  
Is Autocad listening?  This would be a good addition to c5 or R14.

[The other excuse  (er method) was: ]
Convert the lines to a Polyline, then delete a vertex.
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[From Newsgroup: comp.cad.microstation]

Subject: Re: For Sale: AutoCad 13 software and manuals

>Brand new Autocad 13 in the box.  Manuals and software. 
>My freind obtained this software in a trade for an engine he owned.  

Did the engine require 3 miles per gallon, 
run slowly and  stall all the time?
If not, your freind may have been taken.

=====AND====
>
>I understand the value of this software is in the $3,000 dollar range.  
>Because he has no need for this, he's willing to take best reasonable 
>offer.

You hope that we will touch this thing wearing the rubber gloves,
or what?  ;)

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[Also From comp.cad.microstation]

>I'm looking for a _simple_, _low_tech_ way of totaling the square >footages of design-file shapes, by level, and writting the totals back 
>
>What I want to do is to simply crank out a bunch of floor plan >analysis, showing that for the 23rd floor marketing has 2300 sq ft, >accounting has 3000 sq ft, and so on.

If you are a CSP customer there is am mdl program called meastag 
(i think) that inserts the value of a measurement (area perimeter)
into  
tag that you can attach to an element.
 
After "tagging" the element you can dump the tags to an ascii
file. 

If you design the tag database properly (ie floor #, dept etc) you
can 
generate a report from the design file that should meet your
needs...

[I think Bill D'Amico's BLOCKER macro beats that method hands down
!!]

It looks like appearances aren't everything.

Ted
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