Autocad Yawnies!
Jan. 14th, 2004 05:08 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
swestrupI am sooooo sleepy! I was planning on hitting the sack around 1:00 am, 2:00 at the latest. Then I decided to do one little thing... ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
taxlady asked me today if I could print out a map of our kitchen with dimensions or a scale or something. She knew I had measured our house and stored the data into Autocad ages ago. I guess great minds think alike, because it was my Autocad CD that I was searching for earlier when I found my other lost CDs. I never did find the Autocad CD, but I found an ISO for it on my backup harddrive, which was good enough. So, I reinstalled Autocad (I hadn't bothered since switching to XP) , and spent the next three hours trying to remember how to select part of a drawing to print, how to set print parameters and how to make a grid display under the drawing. Its all coming back to me now. Then again, I learned Autocad on a 16 MHz machine, back when it was V10.0, I think. Its changed a bit since then.
Anyway, it all took longer than it should have, but I did manage to do what I was trying to do. There were many fancier ways I could have done the job, but I would still be puzzling over the commands to do it right now. I have handed the printouts to my SO, and I'm going to bed. I will try VERY HARD not to think about the fact that I bought her a prybar today, and when I handed her the printouts she showed me the bits of floor she had levered up and removed. She's still at it down there. With any luck, she'll leave me enough floor to get to the kitchen in the morning, but there's no guarantee. She can get carried away with her new toys...
taxlady asked me today if I could print out a map of our kitchen with dimensions or a scale or something. She knew I had measured our house and stored the data into Autocad ages ago. I guess great minds think alike, because it was my Autocad CD that I was searching for earlier when I found my other lost CDs. I never did find the Autocad CD, but I found an ISO for it on my backup harddrive, which was good enough. So, I reinstalled Autocad (I hadn't bothered since switching to XP) , and spent the next three hours trying to remember how to select part of a drawing to print, how to set print parameters and how to make a grid display under the drawing. Its all coming back to me now. Then again, I learned Autocad on a 16 MHz machine, back when it was V10.0, I think. Its changed a bit since then.Anyway, it all took longer than it should have, but I did manage to do what I was trying to do. There were many fancier ways I could have done the job, but I would still be puzzling over the commands to do it right now. I have handed the printouts to my SO, and I'm going to bed. I will try VERY HARD not to think about the fact that I bought her a prybar today, and when I handed her the printouts she showed me the bits of floor she had levered up and removed. She's still at it down there. With any luck, she'll leave me enough floor to get to the kitchen in the morning, but there's no guarantee. She can get carried away with her new toys...
