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Hi there. I am after some advice regarding a project I am working on at the moment. My company is supplying a PLC based system on a ship which is going to be controlling hundreds of valves and reading back their status. These valves will be controlling numerous fire safety systems across the...

Sussed it...you need to install Autocad Mechanical 2006 service pack 2.

Further to this I think it may have something to do with grip association. If you draw a new line and dimension it up you pick the end points of the line. The dimension grip then associates itself with the grip point of the line so when you stretch the line and dimension it, it works. I have...

Guys, I have a problem with my dimensioning in AutoCAD mechanical 2006. I want to stretch a horizontal dimension but everytime I select the dimension I want to stretch it moves the whole dimension. I can however stretch it over using the grip edit but I then have to stretch the line I want to...

Guys/Girls This may have been covered already so forgive me for asking again. When I click into the viewport window in paperspace and try and scale the viewport window it scales the paperspace and modelspace? Anyone know the solution?

I suggest you invest in the software from these people http://www.autodwg.com/ You can pdf all dwg layouts into 1 single file and at any paper size. You don't even have to AutoCAD to convert the files. It has saved me thousands and thousands in man hours...I have just recently used it to...

Guys, I have searched this forum and done all of the things required to reduce my file size. I was hoping someone could possible help me to get the file size even smaller. The issue I have is of download time, the GA that includes our design overlaid onto it is at the moment 8Meg. This GA...

Hi there, Just wondering if anyone has a procedure that details the setting up of paperspace modelspace drawings. I have been given the task of dragging the CAD department into the 21st century but I am not very good at teaching others. The main points I want to address are the 'Page Setup'...

Borgunit - Spot on thanks for your time I appreciate it.

Yes Insert > Picture is fine however I want the picture to be attached to a specific cell. If I then want to manipulate that cell the picture moves with it.

Sorry about previous message - did not make much sense! Bascially I just want to attach a picture to an indivdual cell in excel. Can this be done?

Hello, Hopefully someone has a quick answer for this question. I have a table, its actually a symbol legend inserted into an AutoCAD drawing. Does anyone know if there is a way to actually attach the symbol picture to the cell? In some cases I do not require a certain symbol to be shown so...

Lothar, Thanks for your reply I read the information on the link supplied and decided to split the excel spreadsheet into more manageable chucks and then pieced them together in AutoCAD. However I was thinking last night, I wondered if you could do it the other way round? i.e insert the...

Ladys and Gents, I am inserting excel spreadsheets into an AutoCAD drawing, simple enough. However why, after I insert the excel spreadsheet does it only show a limited number of colums and a limited number of rows? Is there a way to get round this so I can see all my data in one go? Ta Dan

AV, You understood my question and thanks for the reply. Problem solved - I slowly getting used to paperspace etc. Ta Dan