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  1. SouthernDrafter

    LDD 2005 pipe routine chaos

    A coworker of mine is having a problem with the PIPES routine in LDD. When she goes to Manning Circluar her machine displays the following warning- BUFFER OVERRUN DETECTED..then her CAD crashes. Anyone know what the problem could be? Thanks in advance!
  2. SouthernDrafter

    Attributes are gone...not showing up

    In our company, we use main drawings and ref them into our sheets. My coworker usually works in the hyrdo/storm drain drawing. I have noticed that only in his drawings, blocks with attributes (such as lot number and structure numbers) are just empty circles and boxes with no attributes. However...
  3. SouthernDrafter

    How do I remove unwanted .shx files?

    I have a drawing that came in from another company. When I load it, it looks for a missing .shx and .shp files. Does anyone know how I can isolate the problem and remove the request for the files? I have redone some of the linetypes that look suspect, but to no avail. You would think there...
  4. SouthernDrafter

    Regen command not working

    One of my employees computer no longer recognizes the RG command to regen. There are several lisp routines that rely on the RG command to function properly. could there be some variable preventing this from working? Regenmode is set to 1. I have also reloaded his menu to no avail. The RG...
  5. SouthernDrafter

    Speeding up Regen time

    Some of our larger jobs are really killing us on regen times. Most of our comp's are up to date with the exception of video cards, which are probably 3 years old. My question is, would uploading more current video DRIVERS help our situation, or would it be beneficial to upgrade the CARDS...
  6. SouthernDrafter

    LDD 2005 question

    Our firm has noticed a problem with generating profiles...the elevations (text) are on Z coords that are WAY off from 0. Something in the area of 200 thousand or more. Is there some setting in the profile generator that would stop this from occurring? I am guessing that all that extra 3d space...
  7. SouthernDrafter

    Dimension problem in LDD

    This site has solved so many problems for me, I thought I would give this one a shot. For the longest time, we have had to go in and manually fix the dimstyles for vertical curve information. The arrows come out huge and the text for the vertical curve length is way too big. We have been having...
  8. SouthernDrafter

    Acad 2005 variables

    Is there a site I can go to that lists ALL of the variables for Autocad 2005? I am finding that many of my problems are ending with variable settings, and there are just so doggone many that I thought a list of all of them would be very helpful. I had a lisp routine that would set everything a...
  9. SouthernDrafter

    Acad 2005 x-ref editing

    Sometimes it works and sometimes it don't. One of the only nice features of 2005 is the ability to edit x-refs from a drawing they are being reffed in. Does anyone know why every once in a while Acad will not allow you save changes to the ref? No one is in the drawing being reffed and no locks...
  10. SouthernDrafter

    Writing a screen menu

    I revise my ACAD menus to accomodate my field of work. My current cad menu file has an elaborate SCREEN MENU. My question is this: I want to write a submenu file for the screen menu part only. When I try to load this submenu, it does not overwrite the generic screen menu file. The only way I...
  11. SouthernDrafter

    AUTOCAD 2005 slow selection

    Does anyone know how to improve selection speed, or better yet, tell me what causes it to slow down to a crawl when I select objects or text, especially when pulling a window or crossing. It's taking around 5-6 seconds for entities to highlight, then the same amount of time for them to respond...
  12. SouthernDrafter

    Structure library

    I wanted to go in and edit some aspects of my structure library, but I don't know where it is located. Can someone tell where, and if it feasable to edit certain things? Thanks. BTW, it's LDD 2005.
  13. SouthernDrafter

    AutoCad 2005 is killing us!

    I could sure use some help in this department. Many times when AutoCad (or LDD 2005) is launched, the program stops midway thru and hangs up. Me and my office cronies have noticed that a number of AutoDesk links power up when ACAD is launched. Examples are things like AdskSeSrv.exe...
  14. SouthernDrafter

    No dialogue

    I am using LDD 2005 and I can not get a dialogue box to show up. Everything is working from the command line. I assume a crucial variable is wrong. Any help is appreciated.
  15. SouthernDrafter

    Issues with LDD 2005

    Since we have installed 2005 on all our machines, we have had numerous issues with this software, i.e. "undo" taking a very long time to complete, and a host of other problems. One in particular is driving me up the wall..copy and paste. Is there any variable I can set that will stop Acad from...
  16. SouthernDrafter

    AutoCad 2005 question

    I cannot locate my acad.pgp file in this newer version. Have they done away with the .pgp file in 2005? I have tried to use my command alias editor in express tools, only nothing seems to be working. Any help would be great.
  17. SouthernDrafter

    Need info about tablets

    Has anyone ever used the Cad Pro 6 X 9 tablets? I am currently using a DrawingBoard 3, but the only drivers I can find are not Wintab compliant. Rather than continue my fruitless search for one, I have considered just buying a new CadPro 6X9. I just wanted to know if anyone here has used one...
  18. SouthernDrafter

    more conversion problems

    It seems that most of what used to be available in Land desktop 3/ support, is no longer placed in that folder. My problem: I have complete, customized menus that many in our firm use. When updating to these menus in the past, I would take a file full of icons and add them to support folder, so...
  19. SouthernDrafter

    Major Problem with 2005

    I just loaded 2005 onto my puter today. I use a 16 button mouse and tablet. Even after I load my buttons menu into cad it does not do anything. Can anyone point me in the right direction on what to do about this?
  20. SouthernDrafter

    Menu customization

    Is there another way to get to the load in dialogue to customize menus, besides TOOLS-->CUSTOMIZE MENUS? LDD does not have TOOLS as a default like regular CAD does. Just wondering if there's a different way to trigger the dialogue on. thanks in advance~

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