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Greetings!
Watch Movies On-Line
Last year, the Sundance Film Festival charged people
to see the short films on their website. However, this
year film buffs can watch mini-movies for FREE.
You'll need a high speed connection (DSL or better),
but if you can arrange to download them, you will see
some talented young film-makers who don't have the
backing yet to make a feature length film.
Pass the popcorn and watch a movie...
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Moss Designs Website Updated |
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Every quarter I update my website....I add the
CADzettes that have been sent out from the prior
quarter, add the tutorials, lisp routines, and tips to the
appropriate pages, and perform general clean up
operations.
For those of you who missed an issue, this is your
opportunity to go back and see what you might have
missed.
I have had a few complaints from folks that I should
update my website more frequently, but I also actually
work (interesting concept) and the tasks that put food
on my table (or hay in my horse's belly) take priority
over the "free" stuff I do, like this ezine and the
website...although the "free" stuff hopefully encourages
readers to hire me for training, designing, or speaking.
Go to my website and catch up on what you missed »
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Troubleshooting Runtime Errors in Inventor R9 |
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Recently, one of my customers had a problem with a
runtime error with a new seat of Inventor R9. They
were running Windows XP SP2.
The first thing users should be aware of with regards to
runtime errors and Inventor is that the error message is
pretty meaningless. Usually, it indicates a conflict
between Inventor, the operating system, system
drivers, or another software. It can be a huge time
sinkhole trying to figure out what is causing the
problem and there is no real process to go through to
eliminate each possible cause.
There is a known conflict between XP SP2 and Inventor
R9. One way is to set Inventor R9 to run in a Windows
2000 environment. To do this, simply right click on the
Inventor R9 desktop icon. Select Properties. Then
select the Compatibility tab. Set it to Windows 2000.
In this particular case, the customer was running eFax
on their machine...and there happens to be a known
conflict between eFax and jFax and Inventor.
Bryan Kelley from Autodesk reports:
We have found that there is a conflict with their
software and Inventor. If you have either eFax
software or J2 Fax software, you will have a difficult
time running Inventor. You can alleviate this problem by
stopping a process called J2GDllCmd.exe inside of Task
Manager. To do this you will need to:
- Exit any eFax or J2 communications software.
- Bring up Task Manager
- Press OR
Right-Mouse click on the Taskbar and select Task
Manager
- Select the Processes tab.
- Find the process called J2GDllCmd.exe, if you find
any other file beginning with J2 repeat the following
steps on that file too.
- Right-Mouse click on it.
- Select End Process Tree
- Select Yes.
I'm sure that you could also instruct the fax program
not to load during startup.
Other users have been able to resolve the run-time
error by updating their video drivers...It is always a
good idea to check for driver updates every six months
or so, just to make sure you have the latest and
greatest installed.
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Layer Manager Opens Slowly in 2005 |
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Many users are complaining about how slowly the Layer
Manager loads in 2005. Autodesk has posted a fix.
Download the free patch »
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Free Lisp Routine |
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I've been busy with some drafting duties and had a
problem in that I had several blocks on my drawing that
needed to be scaled down. So, I wrote this down and
dirty lisp routine....basically, it prompts you to select
the object, select the base point, and then
automatically scales it down by half.
I then created a tool for it on my tool palette...works
great and saves me several steps.
Download the routine »
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Importing a Page Setup from another Drawing |
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This week I have been struggling with layouts, xrefs,
and page setups.
One cool command I have discovered is PSETUPIN.
You can use this command to import a page setup from
an existing/legacy/standard/template drawing into your
current/active drawing. Saves a little time from having
to re-create the wheel.
But the big headache was the ability to apply a page
setup to all my layouts at a single shot...instead of
selecting each layout and resetting it. Many kudos and
much gratitude to Jason Piercey, who wrote an
awesome routine that does just that.
Download Jason's routine »
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