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* Vermont Microsystems AutoMate/PRO Version 8.10 - Demo Version *
* ......................................................................... *
* ADI 4.1/4.2 Display and Rendering Driver/Productivity Software *
* ......................................................................... *
* Supports: *
* SVGA's, VGA's, VESA 1.00+, TIGA 2.00+ *
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CONTENTS:
1. INTRODUCTION
2. HARDWARE COMPATIBILITY
3. SOFTWARE COMPATIBILITY
4. BEFORE INSTALLING AutoMate/PRO
5. INSTALLING AutoMate/PRO
A. ACAD11 or ACAD10 (P386) with TIGA adapter
6. CONFIGURING Autodesk applications for AutoMate/PRO
A. AutoCAD 386 Release 12
B. AutoCAD 386 Release 11 and Release 10_c10
C. AutoCAD 12's AVE-Render
D. DSPADI variable for ACAD11 or 3D-Studio
7. COMPATIBLE DISPLAY ADAPTERS
A. VESA compatible SVGA
B. Tseng ET4000 based SVGA
C. S3 based SVGA
D. TIGA compatible Adapter
E. Standard VGA (640x480)
8. AUTOMATE/PRO's MENU SYSTEM
A. VMI Main Icon Menu
B. Toolbar Menu
C. Quick Command Menu
D. Slide Sub-Menus
E. Macro Commands
F. Block Management
G. Converting Previous AutoMate Menus to be
compatible with this version of AutoMate/PRO.
9. TROUBLESHOOTING GUIDE
10. MISCELLANEOUS NOTES
A. CAD Overlay ESP
B. Tablet Configuration
C. AutoMate Command Line Commands
E. Status Command
F. Known Limitations
G. Trademarks and Restrictions
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1. INTRODUCTION:
This is a demonstration version of AutoMate/PRO. It will run AutoCAD
for 15 minutes before suspending digitizer input to AutoCAD. You will
be warned at about the 13 minute mark via a dialog box that you have
only several minutes left. Upon completion of the demonstration, another
dialog box will inform you that you do have keyboard control as a means
of exiting AutoCAD.
This should be unzipped into it's own directory so that you can easily
remove it later (for example c:\automate).
If you have AutoCAD Release 12, you can begin running AutoMate/PRO by:
- Adding the Automate directory to the ACADDRV environment variable
- Starting AutoCAD with acad -r
- Selecting AutoMate/PRO from the menu
If you need more information, refer to this file. There may be some
references in this file that do not pertain to this demo version of
AutoMate/PRO (i.e. the INSTALL facility). We have kept them documented
for your information concerning our retail version.
Feel free to pass the automate.zip demonstation file along to others.
AutoMate/PRO is more than just a display driver for AutoCAD. AutoMate/PRO
includes many features and tools that have been designed to enhance the
productivity of the AutoCAD user. For example the AutoMate/PRO software
utilizes your systems extended memory to maintain a "Display List" which
will provide for very fast pans, zooms and redraws. AutoMate/PRO also
includes several tools such as Birdseye, Magnifying Glass, Real Time
PAN and ZOOM and a user configurable ICON menu. Refer to the AutoMate/PRO
users Guide for information on how to use AutoMate/PRO's productivity
tools.
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2. HARDWARE COMPATIBILITY:
A. Computer - DOS-based 386 or 486 PC with 640K base memory plus a minimum
of 4-Megabytes Extended memory. More extended memory is
preferred especially for AutoCAD 12. If you are working with
large drawings (1 Meg or more) then we recommend that you
have a minimum of 8-Megabytes of Extended memory. You should
also have a minimum of 5-Megabytes of free disk space on
the hard drive that you are using for AutoCAD swap files.
B. Graphics Card - This version of AutoMate/PRO is compatible with the fol-
lowing types of Graphics Adapters:
a. Tseng Labs ET4000 based Super VGA cards.
b. S3 based Super VGA cards.
c. ATI Ultra or Ultra/PRO
d. Compaq QVision
e. Video 7 VRAMII
f. Standard IBM compatible VGA cards (640 x 480 resolution).
g. 100% VESA compatible Super VGA cards (256 color modes only).
h. 100% TIGA (Version 2.0 or greater) compatible graphics cards.
Refer to the "COMPATIBLE DISPLAY ADAPTERS" section below for more
information on installing and using these graphics adapters with
AutoMate/PRO.
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3. SOFTWARE COMPATIBILITY:
This version of AutoMate/PRO is compatible with the following
Autodesk applications:
A. AutoCAD 386 Release 10_c10
B. AutoCAD 386 Release 11
C. AutoCAD 386 Release 12
D. AutoCAD 12's AVE-Render
Note: For 3D-Studio or AutoShade 2.X, install the driver from the
AutoMate/PRO for 3D-Studio disk. (Note: While 3D-Studio and
AutoShade 2.X are supported in the retail version of AutoMate/PRO,
this support is NOT included in this demonstration version).
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4. BEFORE INSTALLING AutoMate/PRO:
a. Install your Graphics Adapter.
b. Install the appropriate Autodesk application.
c. Configure the application for standard VGA and test the application
to make sure your graphics card and application are installed
correctly.
d. Make sure your Graphics adapter is configured correctly so that it
is compatible with your monitor and the display resolution that
you pick during AutoMate/PRO installation.
e. If you have a VESA compatible Super VGA (other than an ET4000,
S3, Video 7 VRAMII, ATI Ultra or Compaq QVision) install the VESA
driver required by your card.
f. If you have a TIGA compatible adapter, install the TIGA driver
required by your card.
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5. INSTALLING AutoMate/PRO: (Note: install.exe is NOT included in demo).
This disk contains an automatic installation utility (INSTALL.EXE)
which will copy to your hard disk all the files for running AutoMate/PRO
with your Autodesk application. INSTALL will also optionally edit your
system's AUTOEXEC.BAT file.
To begin the AutoMate/PRO software installation:
a. Insert the "AutoMate/PRO" disk into floppy drive A or B.
b. Make the selected floppy the current drive and type INSTALL
<Enter> from the DOS prompt. Follow the instructions on the
screen.
c. First you will be asked to select the type of Display Adapter
that you are going to use to run AutoCAD.
For more information on AutoMate/PRO compatible display adapters
see the section "COMPATIBLE DISPLAY ADAPTERS" below.
d. You will be asked to select the display resolution at which
you wish to run AutoMate/PRO. However if you select Standard VGA
you will not be asked to select a resolution. For the Standard VGA,
only 640x480 resolution will be available. AutoMate/PRO currently
supports four resolutions: 1280x1024, 1024x768, 800x600 and
640x480, however you must make sure your graphics card supports
the resolution that you select.
Select the resolution that is appropriate for your monitor and
Adapter.
e. You will be asked to select a drive and destination subdirectory
on your hard disk for AutoMate/PRO files. The default is
C:\AUTOMATE. However, you may select any available drive and enter
a different subdirectory. The subdirectory will be created if it
does not already exist.
f. INSTALL will copy the AutoMate/PRO files to the specified
directory on your hard disk.
g. Next you will be asked if we can modify your AUTOEXEC.BAT file.
We recommend that you answer YES; otherwise you will have to
manually edit your AUTOEXEC.BAT file or create another batch
file containing the given lines. The lines added will be similar
to the following:
SET AMATERES=1024,768
SET DSPADI=C:\AUTOMATE\RCAMATE.EXP
SET ACADDRV=C:\ACAD12\DRV;C:\AUTOMATE
Attention AutoCAD 12 users:
----------------------------
The AutoCAD environment variable "ACADDRV" must be set (as
shown in the example below) to tell AutoCAD 12 where to find the
AutoMate/PRO Display/Rendering driver and the Digitizer and
Plotter drivers.
SET ACADDRV=C:\ACAD12\DRV;C:\AUTOMATE
CAUTION !!!!
If you have multiple "SET ACADDRV" statements, the last one
executed will override any previous ones.
Attention AutoCAD 11 or AutoCAD 10_c10 users:
---------------------------------------------
The AutoCAD environment variable "DSPADI" must be set (as
shown in the example below) to tell AutoCAD the name of and
where to find the AutoMate/PRO Display driver.
SET DSPADI=C:\AUTOMATE\AUTOMATE.EXP
h. After you have completed the installation, re-boot your system
so that the changes in Autoexec.bat will take effect. If you are
using a batch file (i.e. ACAD386 or ACADR12) to start AutoCAD make
sure the batch file contains all the commands required for loading
AutoMate/PRO.
A. ACAD11 or ACAD10 (P386) with TIGA compatible adapters.
Ignore the instructions below if you are running AutoCAD 12 or if
you are not using a TIGA compatible adapter.
After you complete the installation (described above in steps a-h)
from this diskette, you will have to copy the file AMTIGA11.EXE from
the diskette labeled "AutoMate/PRO for 3D-Studio" to the
AUTOMATE directory.
To do this just insert the "AutoMate/PRO for 3D-Studio"
diskette into your floppy drive, make the floppy the current drive
and type:
COPY AMTIGA11.EXE C:\AUTOMATE
AMTIGA11.EXE is a self-extracting compressed file so after you
copy it you will have to execute it to decompress it.
To do this, change directory to AUTOMATE directory and type:
AMTIGA11
When you see the message:
"Warning RCAMATE.EXP already exists. Overwrite?" type "Y" for yes.
NOTE: If you upgrade to ACAD 12 later then you will have to
re-install from the AutoMate/PRO for DOS diskette.
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6. CONFIGURING Autodesk applications for AutoMate/PRO:
A. AutoCAD 386 Release 12 Display Configuration -
a. Type "ACAD -r" <ENTER> from the AutoCAD directory to display
AutoCADs' Configuration menu. Or if you are already in AutoCAD's
graphics screen you can select "configure" from the "file"
pull-down menu.
b. From the Configuration menu select "Configure video display".
c. When asked if you wish to change the display answer `Y' and
then select "AutoMate/PRO ADI 4.2".
d. Next you will be asked if you wish to run AutoTune. AutoTune
is a convenient utility which allows you to customize your
AutoCAD display as well as AutoMate's features.
e. AutoCAD's configuration utility will continue by asking you
several questions. In order to have access to all of the
AutoMate/PRO functions such as on screen icons and popdown
menus you should select the default answers to each of the
questions by pressing the <ENTER> key after each question.
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B. AutoCAD 386 Release 11 or release 10_c10 Display Configuration -
a. Type `ACAD' <ENTER> from the AutoCAD directory to display
the AutoCAD main menu.
b. At the Main menu select the `Configure AutoCAD' option.
c. From the Configuration menu select `Configure video display'.
d. When asked if you wish to change the display answer `Y' and then
select `ADI P386 v4.0/4.1 display' (for AutoCAD Release 11) or
`ADI P386 display' (for AutoCAD release 10 P386 Mode) from the
list of Available Video Displays.
e. You will be asked if you wish to run AutoTune. AutoTune is a
convenient utility which allows you to customize your AutoCAD
display as well as AutoMate's features..
f. AutoCAD's configuration utility will continue by asking you
several questions. In order to have access to all of the
AutoMate/PRO functions such as on screen icons and popdown
menus you should select the default answers to each of the
questions by pressing the <ENTER> key after each question.
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C. AVE-Render configuration -
The AVE-Render configuration procedure is slightly different depending
on wheather you are configuring for the first time with AutoMate/PRO or
if you are Re-Configuring. The procedure will also be a little different
if you have AutoMate's "Viewport RenderReady" enabled in AutoTune.
Initial AVE-Render Configuration:
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a. Select "Preferences" from RENDER pull-down menu.
b. You will be asked to Select rendering display device.
c. Enter option 1 (AutoCAD's configured P386 ADI combined display/
rendering driver.
d. If you do Not have AutoMate's "Viewport RenderReady" enabled, you
will be asked to select the desired rendering mode. Enter 0 for 256-
color mode or 1 for RenderReady mode.
e. Next you will be asked to Select mode to run display/rendering
combined driver. Enter 1 to display in an AutoCAD viewport without
doing a flipscreen. Enter 2 to display in a seperate rendering
screen by doing a flipscreen.
f. Next you will be asked to select the rendering hard copy device.
Select the appropriate option for your printer or plotter.
g. Next, the Rendering Preferences dialog box will appear.
h. Just pick the OK button in the dialog box and the AVE-Render
configuration will be complete.
Re-configure AVE-Render:
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a. Select "Preferences" from RENDER pull-down menu.
b. Next, the Rendering Preferences dialog box will appear.
c. Pick the "Re-configure" button in the dialog box and the current
configuration will be shown.
d. Press <ENTER> to continue.
e. Then enter option 2 (Configure Rendering Device).
f. Your current rendering device will be shown.
g. If your current device is not shown as "AutoCAD's configured P386
ADI combined display/rendering driver" then enter "Y" to select
different device.
h. Enter option 1 "AutoCAD's configured P386 ADI combined display/
rendering driver".
i. If you do Not have AutoMate's "Viewport RenderReady" enabled, you
will be asked to select the desired rendering mode. Enter 0 for 256-
color mode or 1 for RenderReady mode.
j. Next you will be asked to Select mode to run display/rendering
combined driver. Enter 1 to display in an AutoCAD viewport without
doing a flipscreen. Enter 2 to display in a seperate rendering
screen by doing a flipscreen.
k. Then enter option 0 (Exit to drawing editor).
l. Enter "Y" to keep configuration changes.
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D. DSPADI variable for ACAD11 or 3D-Studio:
If you are going to be running AutoCAD 11 or 10 (P386) and AutoSHade
or 3D-Studio you will have to re-set the DSPADI environment variable
when you switch between AutoCAD 11 or 10 and and 3D-Studio or Shade.
The reason for this is that there are currently two seperate drivers.
One driver (RCAMATE.EXP) supports AutoCAD Rel. 12, 11 and 10 (P386).
The other driver (AUTOMATE.EXP) supports 3D-Studio and AutoShade.
AutoCAD 11 and 10 (P386) require the environment variable DSPADI to
be set to point to the RCAMATE driver as shown in the following
example:
SET DSPADI=C:\AUTOMATE\RCAMATE.EXP
However, the problem is that 3D-Studio and AutoShade also require that
DSPADI (as well as RDPADI and RCPADI) be set as shown in the following
example:
SET DSPADI=C:\AMATE3DS\AUTOMATE.EXP
Since there are two different drivers you cannot have DSPADI set to
both at the same time.
Therefore if you are going to be switching back and forth between
AutoCAD 11 or 10 (P386) and 3D-Studio or AutoShade, we recommend that
you use batch files to set the appropriate DSPADI ( as well as the
other set statements) for each application. The following are examples
of two batch files you may want to use:
Sample batch file for setting up AutoMate for AutoCAD rel 11 or 10.
....................................................................
SET ACAD=C:\ACAD11;C:\ACAD11\SAMPLE;C:\ACAD11\ADS
SET ACADCFG=C:\ACAD11
SET DSPADI=C:\AUTOMATE\RCAMATE.EXP
C:\ACAD11\ACAD %1 %2
Sample batch file for setting up AutoMate for 3D-Studio or AutoShade
......................................................................
SET DSPADI=C:\AMATE3DS\AUTOMATE.EXP
SET RDPADI=C:\AMATE3DS\AUTOMATE.EXP
SET RCPADI=C:\AMATE3DS\AUTOMATE.EXP
C:\3DS\3DS %1 %2
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7. COMPATIBLE DISPLAY ADAPTERS:
AutoMate/PRO is compatible with a variety of different types of display
adapters. However AutoMate's performance and display resolution will
vary depending upon which type of adapter you are using.
AutoMate/PRO has been optimized to provide the best performance on
Super VGA's that are based on the S3 or Tseng ET4000 chips. AutoMate has
also been optimized for high performance on the ATI Ultra card as well
Compaq's QVision. Most of these cards will display 256 or more colors at
1024 x 768 resolution.
AutoMate's performance on TIGA based adapters may vary widely depending
on the speed and type of Graphics processor (TMS34010 or TMS34020) that
is used. The speed and amount of onboard memory as well as the ef-
ficiency of the Tiga software interface may also affect the overall
performance of AutoMate/PRO on Tiga based adapters.
A. VESA compatible SVGA:
Requires a Super VGA card that is 100% compatible with the VESA
(Video Electronics Standards Association) specification (ver. 1.00
or greater). In order for AutoMate/PRO to work with a VESA compatible
adapter, the driver and adpater must be able to display 256 colors at
the resolution you select. If the card can only display 16 colors at
1024 x 768 then AutoMate will default to a lower resolution that can
display 256 colors.
Requires that a VESA driver that is compatible with the VGA be
loaded in addition to AutoMate/PRO.
If you received a VESA driver with your VGA then install it.
We have included VESA drivers for a few popular SVGA cards (as listed
below) which you may wish to try if your VGA did not come with a VESA
driver:
ATI VGA Wonder Tseng Labs ET 3000/4000
Genoa Video 7
Trident Western Digital
These VESA drivers will be copied to a VESA subirectory under the
directory you use for AutoMate/PRO installation.
We have also included a utility "VESALIST.EXE" which will be copied
to the same directory as the VESA drivers. After you install the ap-
propriate VESA driver for your card you can run VESALIST to determine
the resolution and color capabilities of your VGA and VESA driver.
VESALIST will display information similar to the following:
VESA256-> 0103h 800x600x1 8bpp 8x14 Color Packed Pixel Grfx
VESA256-> 0105h 1024x768x1 8bpp 8x16 Color Packed Pixel Grfx
..........................................................................
B. Tseng ET4000 based SVGA:
Requires a Super VGA that is based on the Tseng Labs ET4000 chip.
Also requires 1 Meg of RAM on board.
Most ET4000 cards require that a "video mode" utility be run to
configure the card for the desired resolution and scan frequencies.
Refer to your VGA users manual to determine how to set the video
mode to the correct resolution and scan frequencies required by your
monitor.
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C. S3 based SVGA:
Requires a Super VGA that is based on the S3 86C911, 86C924,
86C928, 86C801 or 86C805 chips with a minimum of 1 MB of RAM.
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D. TIGA compatible Adapter:
Requires a Hi-Resolution graphics adapter that is 100% compatible
with TIGA (Texas Instruments Graphics Adapter) version 2.0 or
greater.
Many graphics cards that are based on the Texas Instruments TMS34010
or TMS34020 graphics processors are TIGA compatible.
In order to work on these types of adapters a TIGA driver must be
loaded in addition to AutoMate/PRO. We do not supply TIGA drivers
therefore you will have to install the TIGA driver supplied with your
graphics card.
However we do supply a file called AUTOMATE.RLM which is the TIGA
Relocatable Module that is used for AutoMate's DLIST mechanism.
INSTALL will copy AUTOMATE.RLM to your TIGA directory or to the
AUTOMATE directory. AUTOMATE.RLM must be in the same directory as
the TIGA driver. If you do not already have you TIGA driver installed
then you must copy AUTOMATE.RLM to your TIGA directory after you
install TIGA.
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E. Standard VGA (640x480):
If your graphics card is not one of those listed above but is a 100%
IBM compatible VGA then you should select "Standard VGA (640x480)".
AutoMate will display a maximum of 16 colors at 640 x 480 resolution
in the Standard VGA mode.
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8. AutoMate/PRO's Menu System:
AutoMate/PRO's menu system is a sophisticated and flexible system
but at the same time is very simple to use and to customize.
AutoMate's menu system includes four different types of user config-
urable command menus: 1. Main Icon menu; 2. Toolbar menu; 3. Slide
submenus; 4. and Quick Command menu.
The menu system also includes a powerful set of functions that allow
the user to easily customize AutoMate's menus to fit his/her needs.
The user will be able to quickly create an icon from an AutoCAD
drawing using AutoMate's "Iconize" command. Then the icon can be
added to one of the icon menus with his or her choice of AutoCAD
command(s) attached to it. Icons can also be rearanged in the menus,
moved to a submenu (via AutoMate's clipboard) or even deleted if
they are not needed. AutoMate/PRO's menu system also includes a very
user-friendly "Edit" function which provides the user with a quick
and easy means of modifying the Labels or Commands in any of
AutoMate's menus.
Also included in AutoMate's menu files are the button commands and
default size information for AutoMate/PRO's Birdseye, Magnifying
Glass, Real-Time windows as well as the default sizes for the Icon
and quick menus.
Different menu files will be installed based on which "Display
Resolution" and "Language" you select during the AutoMate/PRO
software installation.
For example: If you select a resolution of 1024x768 the size of
the ICONS in the popup ICON menu will be larger than if you
select 800x600 or 640x480. Also the default window sizes are
different to compensate for each different resolution.
If after installing AutoMate/PRO you find that your monitor cannot
handle the resolution you selected, you should re-run the INSTALL
and select the resolution that is required by your monitor.
During the installation you should allow it to install the new menus
so that the appropriate sized menus for the new resolution will be
copied.
A. VMI Main Icon Menu (AUTOMATE.MNU) -
----------------------------------------
AutoMate's main Icon menu consists of a popup window containing
several icons which are bound to common AutoCAD commands. This is
a heirarchical menu which can contain multiple levels of sub-menus.
Some of the icons will bring up icon sub-menus or slide sub-menus
which contain other commands. AutoMate's main icon menu is complete-
ly user configurable. The user can add as many icons an/or submenus
as he/she wishes and there is no limit to the number of levels of
sub-menus you can have.
The icons used in AutoMates Main icon menu and it's icon submenus
are created from AutoCAD drawings using AutoMate's "Iconize"
function. The iconize function is accessed by picking the menus
"File" button at the top of the menu. You will have a choice of
several different sizes for your icon. The most common size is
48-pixels. However if you specified a low display resolution (i.e.
800x600 or 640x480) during INSTALL then 32-pixel icons will be
installed. Iconize will create a targa file (*.TGA) using a file
name that you specify.
To add an icon to the main icon menu or one of its sub-menus just
pick the "Modify" button at the top of the menu and then select
the "Add" option. You will be prompted for the filename of the Icon,
the label that appears under the icon in the menu, and the command
that will be bound to the icon. There are other modify options that
will let you rearange the position of the icons, delete icons or
even edit the label or command attached to an icon.
Note: AUTOMATE.MNU is the main menu file which contains several
begin_menu/end_menu sections that contain the commands used
in different parts of AutoMate's menu system.
The following is a list of menu sections included in AUTOMATE.MNU:
begin_menu 1 ........ AutoMate's main ICON menu commands.
begin_menu 2 ............ Main ICON menu "File" options.
begin_menu 3 ............ Main ICON menu "Modify" options.
begin_menu 4 ............ Main ICON menu Iconize "Size" options.
begin_menu 11 ....... Birdseye "Zmenu" options.
begin_menu 21 ....... Magnifier "Size" options.
begin_menu 41 ....... Quick Menu commands.
begin_menu 42 ........... Quick Menu "Modify" options.
begin_menu 100 ...... AutoMate's On-screen ICONS (large text).
begin_menu 101 ...... AutoMate's On-screen ICONS (small text).
begin_menu 103 ...... AutoMate "Tools" sub-menu in main ICON menu.
begin_menu 105 ...... Sample "Blocks" sub-menu in main ICON menu.
B. Toolbar Menu (TOOLBAR.MNU) -
---------------------------------
The toolbar menu is the newest addition to AutoMate's menu system.
AutoMate's toolbar menu is an optional on-screen Icon menu which
is displayed as a single vertical strip of icons on the left side
of the screen. This menu is similar to the Main Icon menu in that
it is also user configurable and includes sub-menus.
The main toolbar menu contains OSNAP commands, a tools submenu as well
as Draw and Edit sub-toolbars. The tools sub-menu includes icons for
activating AutoMates productivity tools (i.e. Birdseye, Magnifying
Glass, Quick menu etc.). At the top of each toolbar menu is a "Modify"
button which contains all of the toolbars modification functions
(i.e. Add sub-menu, add icon, delete icon, cut, paste and edit). By
using these modify options you can easily customize the toolbar menu
to fit your needs.
If you do not wish to use the toolbar, you can disable it from the
AutoTune Options menu.
Attention ACAD11 or ACAD10 (P386) users:
If you are going to use the Toolbar's OSNAP commands with AutoCAD 11
or 10 (P386) you will have to modify the commands to remove the
transparent character (') at the beginning of the command. AutoCAD
Release 12 will recognize OSNAP commands with the transparent
character but AutoCAD Rel 11 and 10 (P386) do not. If you try to
use the transparent character with OSNAP's on ACAD11 or 10 (P386)
you will get an UNKNOWN COMMAND error.
To remove the transparent character just select "EDIT" function
from the toolbars "Modify" menu. Then pick the OSNAP Icon that you
wish to change. A dialog box will come up which shows the Icon
file name and the actual command. Click on the command line and
then just delete the (') character at the beginning of the command.
C. Quick Command Menu (Part of AUTOMATE.MNU) -
------------------------------------------------
AutoMate's Quick Command Menu is a simple, single tiered popup
text menu. The quick menu was designed to hold the commands that
you use most frequently. Commands or macros can be added quickly
without having to create an icon to use with it. The quick menu
also has most of the same modify options (i.e. add, delete, move,
swap and edit) as in AutoMate's other menus.
D. Slide Sub-Menus (TABLET.MNU) -
-----------------------------------
AutoMate's slide sub-menus consist of several sub-menus (i.e. Draw,
Edit, OSNAP, Inquiry, Tablet etc.) which are all accessed from
the main icon menu. The slide sub-menus contain icons that are
made from AutoCAD slides which look the same as the symbols used
on AutoCAD's tablet overlay. The slides used for the menus are
included in a slide library file called TABLET.SLB. The commands
used in the slide menus are included in a file called TABLET.MNU.
AutoMate's slide menus were provided as an alternative method of
entering AutoCAD commands for users who are already familiar with
AutoCAD's tablet menus.
The slide submenus are not easily re-configurable. Any changes to
these menus will have to be done by manually editing the TABLET.MNU
file. Refer to the AutoMate/PRO users guide for more information
on modifying the slide sub-menus.
E. Macro Commands -
--------------------
One of the most powerful features of AutoMate's menu system is the
ability to easily create your own Macro commands which can be added
to any of AutoMate's menus. A Macro is two or more commands strung
together to create a sequence of commands that can be executed by
by a single menu pick. We have provided a few examples of some
simple macros in AutoMate's Quick Command menu. The simplest type
of macro is made up of a single command with some sort of parameter
or value after it (i.e. SNAP ON). The delimiter used to seperate
commands in AutoMate/PRO's macros is a <SPACE> which has the same
effect as an AutoCAD <RETURN>. By using this macro you can reduce
the number of steps it takes to turn Snap on from 2 steps to 1.
More complex macros can save many more steps thus saving you
several hours on some designs. Another slightly more complex macro
which we have provided as an example in AutoMate's Quick menu is
the "Change Color" command. This macro requires user interaction
(to specify a new color and to pick the object to change color) and
is designed for one specific purpose (to change the color of a
single entity and then terminate the command). By using this macro
you can reduce the number of steps to perform the change color
function from 9 steps to 4. Since the change color macro required
user interaction, it was written using AutoLisp which provides a
simple command for pausing for user interaction. The following is
the syntax used in the sample "change color" macro:
(command "chprop" pause "" "c" pause "" null)
First the chprop command is executed; then pause waits for the user
to pick the object to change color of; C selects color as the
property to change; then pause waits for the user to enter a color.
The "" executes an AutoCAD return function.
F. Block Management -
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Another very powerful but often overlooked feature of AutoMate's
menu system is the ability to use the Icon menu (or one of its
sub-menus) as a "Block Management" system. This means that you can
create a menu which can be used to Insert Blocks into your current
drawing. The icons used in the menu would be small representations
of the actual blocks that are associated with each icon.
For example: If you were an architect you may have a block sub-menu
that contains icons of all the different types of doors or
windows that you use in your designs.
Associated with each icon would be an external block drawing which
can easily be inserted into your drawing just by picking the
appropriate icon in the block menu.
The command attached to each Icon would be the AutoCAD INSERT
command followed by the path and filename of the block.
To create an Icon for a particular block you can just draw a simple
representation of the block and then Iconize it, or just insert
the block into a blank drawing, scale it to nearly fill the screen
and then Iconize it.
We have provided a sample "Block Menu" which contains a few simple
icons and blocks. The drawings in the sample block menu are not
intended to be used in real drawings. They are only provided to
help demonstrate how easy it is to create your own block management
system using AutoMate's menu system.
G. Converting Previous versions of AutoMate menus -
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Due to the complexity of the changes to AutoMate's menu system in
this version of AutoMate/PRO, previous versions of AutoMate menus
are not entirely compatible with this new version of AutoMate.
If you have made changes to your current AutoMate menus that you
would like to use with this new version of AutoMate, you will have
to convert your existing AUTOMATE.MNU file to be compatible with
this version of AutoMate. The following is a list of the changes
that you should make to your existing AUTOMATE.MNU file. The first
two entries are required changes and the rest are optional. However
if you don't make the optional changes you will not have access to
several of AutoMate's new features:
a. Required - Add following lines to top of your AUTOMATE.MNU file:
include "toolbar.mnu"
include "dialogs.mnu"
icon 2 4 2 4
toolbar_iconsize 48
string 0 "redrawall"
string 1 "File %s already exists!"
b. Required - Delete all of the dialog text at the end of your
AUTOMATE.MNU file beginning with the first
"begin_dialog" line. (This text is now included in
a seperate file called DIALOGS.MNU).
c. Optional - Add "begin_item 10" section as shown below after
"begin_item 2" in the "begin_menu 3" section of your
current AUTOMATE.MNU:
begin_item 10
message "Edit"
action
begin_text
. Click on entry to edit...
end_text
end_item
This addition will give you access to AutoMate's new
icon editor for the main VMI Icon menu.
d. Optional - Add "begin_item 3" section as shown below after the
"begin_item 2" section near beginning of "begin_menu
11" section of your current AUTOMATE.MNU:
begin_item 3
message "Zoom Fit"
action
end_item
Remove the previous "begin_item 3" section "Zoom 0.1X"
This addition will give you access to AutoMate's new
ZOOM FIT function from the birdseye. Zoom Fit is
similar to AutoCAD's Zoom Extents command.
e. Optional - Add "begin_item 9" section as shown below after the
"begin_item 8" section at the end of the "begin_menu
11" section of your current AUTOMATE.MNU:
begin_item 9
message "Onscreen mode"
state off
end_item
This addition will give you access to AutoMate's new
onscreen (sticky) Birdseye.
f. Optional - Add "begin_item 10" section as shown below after
"begin_item 4" (swap) in the "begin_menu 42" section
of your current AUTOMATE.MNU:
begin_item 10
message "Edit"
action
begin_text
. Click on entry to edit...
end_text
end_item
This addition will give you access to AutoMate's new
command editor for the Quick Menu.
g. Optional (but strongly recommended) - Add following line to the
"begin_window 1" section of your current AUTOMATE.MNU
after the line "button "Pan" 3 exclusive on action":
button "Fit" 4 action"
This is used with AutoCAD 12 when you have AutoMate's
"32 bit DLIST" option enabled in AutoTune. When this
button is activated it will scale the drawing in the
birdseye to fill the entire birdseye window.
h. Optional - Add following lines to the "begin_window 2" section
of your current AUTOMATE.MNU file after the line
"button "Size" 1 menu 21" :
button "Mag" 2 exclusive on action
button "Pick" 3 exclusive off action
This addition will give you access to the new real
time pick function of AutoMate's Magnifying Glass.
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9. TROUBLESHOOTING GUIDE:
A. Problem (AutoCAD 12 configuration):
AutoMate/PRO does not show up in list of "Available Video Displays"
during AutoCAD 12's Video Display configuration.
Possible causes:
a. The directory containing the AutoMate/PRO driver files has not
been appended to the "SET ACADDRV=<path>" statement.
b. The "SET ACADDRV" statement containing the AutoMate directory has
not yet been executed.
c. A Batch file used to invoke AutoCAD contains a different
"SET ACADDRV" statement other than the one containing AUTOMATE.
If you are using a batch file (i.e. ACADR12.BAT) which already
contains a "SET ACADDRV" statement then you must append the
AUTOMATE pathname to it as shown in the following example:
SET ACADDRV=C:\ACAD12\DRV;C:\AUTOMATE
d. Another "SET ACADDRV" statement (which dosen't contain the
AutoMate directory) has been executed after the one containing
the AutoMate directory. The "SET ACADDRV" statement should only
be executed once. If you have more than one "SET ACADDRV"
statement, the last one executed will override any previous ones.
e. RCAMATE.EXP file is missing, or not in the directory indicated
by the <path> in the SET ACADDRV=<path>.
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B. Problem (AutoCAD 11 configuration):
Get following error when running AutoCAD 11's "Video Display
Configuration":
"Cannot find ADI P386 display driver."
Possible causes:
a. You have not booted your system after installing AutoMate/PRO
in order to execute the "SET" statements that were added to
AUTOEXEC.BAT during AutoMate/PRO installation.
b. You did not allow the AutoMate/PRO INSTALL utility to add the
set statements to AUTOEXEC.BAT and therefore have not yet been
executed.
The SET statements must be executed before configuring
AutoCAD 11's video display so that AutoCAD knows where to find
the driver.
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C. Problem (AutoCAD 12):
Try to bring up an AutoCAD drawing and get following errors:
"Please correct display adapter/configuration inconsistency".
"FATAL ERROR: Can't start display driver"
Possible causes:
a. AutoCAD may not be configured correctly for AutoMate/PRO.
Refer to section 6 of this document "CONFIGURING Autodesk
applications for AutoMate/PRO"
b. If you are using a VESA or TIGA compatible Adapter and selected
the VESA or TIGA Adapter type during AutoMate installation,
you may have forgotten to load the appropriate VESA or TIGA
driver in addition to AutoMate/PRO.
c. If you are using a TIGA compatible adapter you may have forgotten
to copy AUTOMATE.RLM to the directory containing your TIGA
software. INSTALL copies AUTOMATE.RLM to your AUTOMATE direc-
tory. You must copy AUTOMATE.RLM to the directory that contains
the TIGA software for your graphics adapter.
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D. Problem (AutoCAD 11 or 10_c10):
Try to bring up an AutoCAD drawing and get following error:
"Cannot load ADI P386 driver."
"Please correct display adapter/configuration inconsistency".
Possible causes:
a. "SET DSPADI=<path>\RCAMATE.EXP" statement is missing in
AUTOEXEC.BAT file. INSTALL should have put this in your
systems AUTOEXEC.BAT file. If you did not allow INSTALL to
modify your AUTOEXEC.BAT you must make sure this command
is executed each time before entering AutoCAD.
b. RCAMATE.EXP file is missing, or not in the directory indicated
by the <path> in the SET DSPADI=<path>\RCAMATE.EXP.
c. A Batch file used to invoke AutoCAD contains a different
"SET DSPADI" statement other than the one containing AUTOMATE.
If this is the case, replace it with the statements from
AUTOMATE.BAT.
d. A different ADI driver (i.e. one supplied with the graphics
board or one left over from a previous installation) is
being loaded after AutoMate/PRO. Make sure there is not another
ADI driver being loaded in AUTOEXEC.BAT or in the batch file
you use to invoke AutoCAD.
e. AutoCAD 11 may not be configured correctly for AutoMate/PRO.
Refer to section 6 of this document "CONFIGURING Autodesk
applications for AutoMate/PRO"
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E. Problem (AutoCAD 12 digitizer/plotter configuration):
Try to configure AutoCAD 12 for Digitizer and/or Plotter but only 1
or 2 options shown in list of available Digitizers and/or Plotters.
Possible causes:
a. The "SET ACADDRV" statement does not contain the path name of
the directory (Usually C:\ACAD\DRV or C:\ACAD12\DRV) containing
the drivers supplied with AutoCAD Release 12.
If your AUTOEXEC.BAT file did not already contain a statement
similar to the following:
SET ACADDRV=C:\ACAD12\DRV
then the AutoMate/PRO INSTALL utility may have added a line
similar to the following:
SET ACADDRV=C:\AUTOMATE
If this was the case, AutoCAD configure will find the AutoMate
display driver but will NOT find the DIGITIZER and PLOTTER
drivers which are in the C:\ACAD12\DRV directory.
The "SET ACADDRV" statement should include both paths as shown
in the following example:
SET ACADDRV=C:\ACAD12\DRV;C:\AUTOMATE
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F. Problem (AutoCAD 12 configuration):
Try to configure AutoCAD 12 by typing "ACAD -r" but get following
error message:
"BASE.dcl: Can't open file."
"Error loading dialogue control file."
Possible causes:
a. The environment variable "ACAD" has not been set. You should have
a line similar to the following in your AUTOEXEC.BAT file or in
the batch file used to start AutoCAD:
SET ACAD=C:\ACAD12\SUPPORT;C:\ACAD12\FONTS;C:\ACAD12\ADS
Note: The pathname C:\ACAD12 may be different on your system
depending on where you installed your AutoCAD 12 software.
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G. Problem:
AutoMate/PRO's Birdseye, Magnifying Glass and Real-Time functions
not working but the Icon and Quick menus do work.
Possible causes:
a. Your AutoCAD display is probably in "PAPER SPACE" mode.
b. Your AutoCAD drawing is in "Perspective View" mode.
AutoMate's Birdseye, Magnifying Glass and Real-Time functions
are not available in these modes.
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H. Problem:
Try to configure Tablet Menus, and one of AutoMate/PRO's windows
pops up when picking one of the points for menu area.
Solution:
This happens because the cursor is pointing to one of AutoMate's
on-screen icons in the lower right corner of the screen.
You can temporarily disable the on-screen icons by typing the
following from the AutoCAD command prompt:
VMI_ICONS_OFF
Then you can configure your tablet. To re-enable the on-screen
icons just type:
VMI_ICONS_ON
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I. Problem (Menu text size):
AutoCAD menu text looks very large (as if displayed at a low
resolution) even though the resolution selected was 1024x768.
Solution:
AutoMate/PRO has two text sizes available (large and small)
with the default size set to LARGE. If you would like to set
the size to SMALL, run the AUTOTUNE utility, select "OPTIONS"
and then activate the "SMALL TEXT" option.
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J. Problem (AutoCAD grid):
AutoCAD grid dots are barely visible (as a dark blue color) or not
visible at all.
If your grid color is set to the default color (#7-white) and if
you have AutoMate's "VIEWPORT RENDERREADY" enabled the grid will
be a dark blue color instead of white.
Solution:
To resolve this problem, use AutoTune's "Tool Settings" option to
change the grid color to color # 255 (for a 256 color adapter) which
is the last white color at the bottom of the color palette.
If you only have 16 colors available then set the grid color to
color # 15 which is also white.
This should force the grid color to remain white regardless of
whether "VIEWPORT RENDERREADY" is enabled or disabled.
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K. Problem:
AutoCAD display is shaky.
Possible causes:
a. Your graphics adapter is not configured correctly to match the
horizontal and vertical scan rates of your monitor. Refer to
your graphics adapter manual; You may have to change a jumper,
a switch or run a mode utility to configure your adapter for
the scan frequencies and resolution required by the monitor.
For Example: If you have an ET4000 based SVGA you will have
to run the VMODE utility each time before enter-
ing AutoCAD.
b. Your monitor may be getting interference from some outside source
such as another monitor, an electric motor, a faulty power supply
inside your computer or monitor, a high voltage power line, etc.
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L. Problem (VESA):
AutoCAD display is only at 640x480 resolution with 16 colors even
though you selected "VESA compatible SVGA" and "1024x768" resolution
during AutoMate/PRO installation.
Possible causes:
a. The VESA driver for your graphics card has not been loaded. To
use AutoMate/PRO's VESA compatible software, you must also load
a VESA driver in addition to AutoMate/PRO. If you selected VESA
but AutoMate cannot find the VESA driver, it will default to
640x480 at 16 colors.
b. Your graphics card and/or VESA driver is not capable of display-
ing 256 colors at the resolution you selected. AutoMate's VESA
compatible software requires 256 color capability otherwise it
will default to 640x480 at 16 colors.
Refer to section 7 (COMPATIBLE DISPLAY ADAPTERS) above for more
information on VESA compatible SVGA's. This section also explains
how to use the "VESALIST.EXE" utility to determine the resolution
and color capabilities of your graphics card and VESA driver.
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M. Problem (TIGA):
Selected "TIGA compatible Adapter" during AutoMate/PRO installation
but get following error when trying to bring up an AutoCAD drawing:
"AutoMate Error: Tiga CD error [-4]"
"Please correct display adapter/configuration inconsistency".
Possible causes:
a. The TIGA driver for your graphics card has not been loaded. To
use AutoMate/PRO's TIGA compatible software, you must also load
a TIGA driver in addition to AutoMate/PRO.
b. Your graphics adapter or TIGA driver is not 100% compatible with
the TIGA 2.0 (or greater) specification.
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N. Problem:
Part of AutoCAD display (i.e. menu and status areas) comes up
but then gets kicked out to DOS prompt before drawing appears.
In some cases you may see the errors "Too many open files" or
"Automate configuration file not found".
Possible causes:
a. Make sure you have "FILES=" set in your systems CONFIG.SYS
file. We recommend that you set it to at least 20 as shown
below:
FILES=20
Note: If the problem continues try raising the number.
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O. Problem (AutoMate menus):
AutoMate/PRO's On-Screen icons not visible.
Possible causes:
a. Make sure AutoCAD is configured correctly for AutoMate/PRO.
Refer to section 6 of this document "CONFIGURING Autodesk
applications for AutoMate/PRO".
b. Make sure the "On-screen Icons" are enabled in AutoTune's option
menu.
c. AutoMate/PRO's menu file "AUTOMATE.MNU" may have gotten corrupted.
To restore the menu, copy "AUTOMATE.SAV" (in the AUTOMATE
directory) to "AUTOMATE.MNU".
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P. Problem (Rubber band lines):
With the drawing Background Color set to WHITE, the UCS Icon and
rubber band lines are not visible.
Solution:
a. Set the pickbox color to black using the AutoTune utility.
From AutoTune's "SETUP MENU" select Tool Settings and then
select "Pickbox Color". Move cursor to color black.
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Q. Problem:
With the drawing Background Color set to WHITE, cannot set the
drawing color to BLACK or change the color of an entity to black.
Solution:
a. Specify color number "7" which is normally white if the back-
ground color is anything other than WHITE. However if the
background is white then color 7 defaults to BLACK.
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R. Problem (Toolbar OSNAP commands with ACAD11):
Get "Unknown Command" error when trying to access the OSNAP command
from AutoMate's new Toolbar menu when running AutoCAD 11 or 10 (P386)
Solution:
a. If you are going to use the Toolbar's OSNAP commands with
AutoCAD 11 or 10 (P386) you will have to modify the commands to
remove the transparent character (') at the beginning of the
command. AutoCAD Release 12 will recognize OSNAP commands with the
transparent character but AutoCAD Rel 11 and 10 (P386) do not.
If you try to use the transparent character with OSNAP's on ACAD11
or 10 (P386) you will get an UNKNOWN COMMAND error.
To remove the transparent character just select "EDIT" function
from the toolbars "Modify" menu. Then pick the OSNAP Icon that you
wish to change. A dialog box will come up which shows the Icon
file name and the actual command. Click on the command line and
then just delete the (') character at the beginning of the command.
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10. MISCELLANEOUS NOTES:
A. CAD Overlay ESP and AutoCAD 11:
There have been several reports of AutoMate/PRO not working with the
latest release (Version 3.50) of Image Systems CAD Overlay ESP. This
is not true. AutoMate/PRO merely needs several files that exist in
the environment variable DSPADI directory. CAD Overlay gets in front
us by redirecting DSPADI to their application and chaining us off of
them.
Simply, here is what the user needs to do to get CAD Overlay running
with AutoMate/PRO and AutoCAD 11:
a. Copy the file AUTOMATE.CFG from the current AutoMate
(usually c:\automate) directory to the CAD Overlay directory
(usually c:\cadovl).
b. Copy the file AUTOMATE.MNU from the current AutoMate
(usually c:\automate) directory to the CAD Overlay directory
(usually c:\cadovl).
c. Copy the file TABLET.MNU from the current AutoMate
(usually c:\automate) directory to the CAD Overlay directory
(usually c:\cadovl).
d. Copy the file TABLET.SLB from the current AutoMate
(usually c:\automate) directory to the CAD Overlay directory
(usually c:\cadovl).
e. Copy the file TOOLBAR.MNU from the current AutoMate
(usually c:\automate) directory to the CAD Overlay directory
(usually c:\cadovl).
f. Copy the file DIALOGS.MNU from the current AutoMate
(usually c:\automate) directory to the CAD Overlay directory
(usually c:\cadovl).
g. Copy the files *.TGA and *.ICO from the current AutoMate
(usually c:\automate) directory to the CAD Overlay directory
(usually c:\cadovl).
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B. Tablet Configuration:
Two commands (VMI_ICONS_OFF and VMI_ICONS_ON) have been added to
the AutoMate/PRO driver. These commands were provided to allow the
user to temporarily disable the ONSCREEN ICONS from the AutoCAD
command prompt before configuring a tablet menu using AutoCAD's
TABLET command. This is necessary to prevent one of the onscreen
icons from being activated when picking the corners of the menu
areas during tablet configuration.
VMI_ICONS_OFF - Temporarily disables the Onscreen Icons. After
the AutoCAD TABLET command is successfully
completed the Onscreen Icons are automatically
enabled.
VMI_ICONS_ON - Re-enables the Onscreen Icons if the Tablet
command is not executed.
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C. AutoMate Command Line Commands:
The following is a list of additional commands that can be
used with AutoMate/PRO. To invoke these commands just type
them at the AutoCAD command prompt:
VMI_CLEAN -- gets a new display list
VMI_AALIAS_ON -- toggles anti-alias mode on
VMI_AALIAS_OFF -- toggles anti-alias mode off
VMI_ZOOM_ALL -- performs a Birdseye zoom all
VMI_PREV_VIEW -- Display previous view
VMI_NEXT_VIEW -- Display next view
VMI_ZOOMFIT -- Performs AutoMate's ZOOM FIT function
which is similar to an AutoCAD Zoom Ext.
VMI_BIRD -- Activate AutoMate's Birdseye
VMI_BE -- Activate AutoMate's Birdseye
VMI_MAG -- Activate AutoMate's Magnifying Glass
VMI_MAGNIFY -- Activate AutoMate's Magnifying Glass
VMI_RT -- Activate AutoMate's Real Time PAN/ZOOM
VMI_REALTIME -- Activate AutoMate's Real Time PAN/ZOOM
VMI_QM -- Activate AutoMate's Quick command menu
VMI_QMENU -- Activate AutoMate's Quick command menu
VMI_MENU -- Activate AutoMate's ICON command menu
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E. Status Command:
If you would like to get a status of the AutoMate/PRO driver
type:
VMI_STATUS
at the AutoCAD command prompt. This will give you information
such as the type of driver installed (i.e. VESA, ET4000, S3,
TIGA), the display resolution and number of colors, and the
version number of AutoMate/PRO.
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F. Known Limitations:
a. Large text mode is not available in 640 x 480 and 800 x 600
resolutions.
b. AutoMate/PRO's Birdseye, Magnifying Glass and Real Time Pan and
Zoom functions are not available when your drawing is displayed
in AutoCAD's "PAPER SPACE" mode or in "Perspective" mode.
c. If your are running AutoTune in the low resolutions (800 x 600
or 640 x 480) the instructions will not be displayed. Therefore
if you are unfamiliar with AutoTune you should refer to the
instructions in your "AutoMate/PRO Users Guide".
d. AutoMate's "Text Screen In a Window" option is not available
if you are using a display resolution of 640x480. For higher
resolutions the "Text Screen In a Window" option can be disabled
or enabled via AutoTune. If you disable it then AutoCAD will do
a normal flipscreen when switching to text mode. In 640x480
mode however, there is no choice; The normal flipscreen will be
used regardless of whether the "Text Screen In a Window" option
is enabled or disabled.
e. AutoCAD grid problem;
If "VIEWPORT RENDERREADY" is enabled the grid is a dark blue
color instead of white which is the default color that it
should come up in.
To resolve this problem, use AutoTune's "Tool Settings" option
to change the grid color to color # 255 which is the last
white color at the bottom of the color palette.
This should force the grid color to remain white regardless of
whether "VIEWPORT RENDERREADY" is enabled or disabled.
f. Anti-Alias mode is not available if you have used AutoTune to
enable "Rendering in a Viewport".
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G. Trademarks and Restrictions:
AutoMate, AutoMate/PRO, AutoTune and RenderReady are all trademarks
of Vermont Microsystems.
AutoCAD, AutoCAD 386, AutoShade, 3D-Studio, ADI and AVE-Render are
all trademarks of Autodesk Inc.
Tiga is a trademark of Texas Instruments; IBM is a trademark of
International Business Machines; ET4000 is a trademark of Tseng Labs;
S3 is a trademark of S3 corporation; VESA is a trademark of the
Video Electronics Standards Association. ATI Ultra is a trademark of
ATI Technologies Inc.; QVision is a trademark of Compaq Computer
corporation.
The installation program used to install AutoMate/PRO , INSTALL, is
based on liscensed software provided by Knowledge Dynamics Corp,
P.O Box 1558, Canyon Lake, Texas 78130-1558 (USA). INSTALL is
Copyright (c) 1987-1991 by Knowledge Dynamics Corp which reserves all
copyright protection worldwide. INSTALL is provided to you for the
exclusive purpose of installing AutoMate/PRO. Vermont Microsystems has
made modifications to the software as provided by Knowledge Dynamics
Corp, and thus the performance and behavior of the INSTALL program
shipped with AutoMate/PRO may not represent the performance and
behavior of INSTALL as shipped by Knowledge Dynamics Corp.
Vermont Microsystems is exclusively responsible for the support of
AutoMate/PRO, including support during the installation phase. In no
event will Knowledge Dynamics Corp be able to provide any technical
support for AutoMate/PRO.
All other trademarks and copyrights by their respective owners are
hereby acknowledged.