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- Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 11:47:41 -0500
- Reply-To: Robert Stalder <rxs14@po.CWRU.Edu>
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- From: Robert Stalder <rxs14@PO.CWRU.EDU>
- Subject: [pmckee@uafhp.uark.edu: Re: AutoCAD on a Laptop]
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- From: pmckee@uafhp.uark.edu (Patrick McKee)
- To: rxs14@po.CWRU.Edu (Robert Stalder)
- Subject: Re: AutoCAD on a Laptop
- Date: Tue, 17 Nov
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-
- Hey sorry about sending this direct to you but I can't seem to get
- to the list today. Could you please forward this. If not it may answer
- some of what you were wondering. ;)
-
- Thanks.....
-
-
- On Mon, 16 Nov 1992, Bob Poulsen wrote:
-
- > Well, I've been thinking...
- >
- > Now that Laptop/Notebook color screens are becoming cheap and
- > acceptably crisp (just barely) has anyone been using AutoCAD
- > on a DOS-based Laptop Computer? I'm interested to see if this
- > works well, what model and configuration laptop, which pointing
- > device (!) and what tasks are best suited for portable computing.
-
- I have a good friend who is an Architect in Florida who uses his notebook
- as a traveling office. He says it works just great. Standard MS mouse
- for a pointer with a modified menu for selecting symbol libraries w/out
- the pad. He has also had great success in using this a field tool. We
- use to lug the standard desktop with us on field measuring trips and
- this notebook has greatly reduced our load. If you think we are crazy
- for taking a CAD station into the field you are wrong - we were able to
- set up a portable office on site that saved a lot of travel time and
- money - not to mention the fact that we turned out field verified
- drawings in half the time, thereby pleasing the client (and impressing)
- greatly. :) The laptop should be to at least a 386/33 expandable to 16
- megs with a 100meg HD. Try it you will like it!
-
-
- >
- > Also, has anyone sucesccfully used a battery-powered printer
- > for AutoCAD ouptut, and if so which one?
- >
-
- Nope, all plots were done at the office. But I have heard that there
- is a printer driver to use with the Canon BJ-10ex and 20 series printers
- that emulates a BJ-130e. There is software available for the BJ-130e
- that enables HP emulation, I think it is called Print-Plot. Canon would
- know. I have used it to print drawings (A & B size only) and it worked
- great. Although you would probably be limited to A size. Hope this
- helps........
-
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