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Dramatic News at AUTOFACT '90 File Locking and Networks File locking increases CADKEY Version 4 Leverages Productivity and CADKEY Version 4's ability to Expands Products in Workstation Market work in network environments in which several people may need to collaborate on a design. CADKEY (RJ Version 4 doubled CADKEY Version 4 during the CADKEY Version 4 implements the number of hardware first quarter of 1991. CADKEY file locking in a flexible, non platforms that it supports, and Version 4's enhancements network-specific manner so that displayed significantly increased specifically aim to help engineers (Continued on page 8) functionalities, at its debut at perform more productively in AUTOFACT '90 in Detroit, work groups and in networks. IN THIS ISSUE: Michigan, November 13-15,1990. c:> Reverse Engineering of CADKEY Version 4 now supports Support for X-Windows 3400-Year-Old Holy SUN Microsystems' Sparc Implementation of the X Places ...... 2 Station1'>l , Data General's Aviion Windows standard interface for c:> Animating Dust ...... 4 3001'>1 workstation, and Sony graphics leads the pack of 26 c:> Buell Motorcycles ...... 20 Corporation's News (CISC)1'>I software enhancements in c:> VESA Graphics Drivers ... .16 workstation in addition to DOS, CADKEY Version 4. X-Windows c:> Notes from DataCAD IBM 386 compatibles, and Silicon provides greater flexibility in Tech Support...... 6 Graphics' Personal lrisTM data communication among c:> DataCAD Tech Tips ...... 7 workstations. CADKEY, INC. systems. Applications on one c:> Notes from Technical plans to begin shipping its DOS, system running X-Windows in a Publications ...... 7 386 and SGI versions of network configuration, can be c:> CADKEY Tech Tips ...... 14 CADKEY Version 4 by the end of run on any other X-Window c:> Notes from CADKEY Tech December 1990. The company system on the network. Support...... 15 expects to ship its new SUN Supporting X-Windows, c:> Trade Show Update ...... ll Sparc, DG Aviion, and Sony together with CADKEY Version c:> CADKEY / DataCAD News (CISC) versions of 4's six hardware platforms, gives Training Dates ...... 12 DataCAD and Archeology Reverse Engineering of 3400-Year-Old Holy Places by Timothy Kendall sanctuary was extensively stands of trees. As one excavated by a team from the approached the temples from the Editor's Note: Dr. Timothy Kendall Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, city, their high walls and pylons is Associate Curator of the Department of under the direction of Dr. George must have been an impressive Egyptian and Ancient Near Eastern Art A. Reisner, between 1916 and sight against the red cliff and the at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and 1920. The city of Napata, pinnacle with its gold-sheathed a specialist in Egyptian archeology. This spreading away from the summit. The temples would article's original purpose was to document mountain in front of the temples, have presented gleaming, white the archeological investigation of ancient still remains virtually plastered facades painted with NubianlEgyptian temples using classical unexplored, although an royal and divine figures, gaudily techniques and using DataCAD, in archaeological expedition of the colored in bright reds, blues, preparation for a feature describing the University of Rome, under the yellows, greens, and browns. expedition of1987-1989 that appears in direction of Dr. F. Sergio Huge wooden flagmasts, partly the November 1990 issue of National Donadoni, has begun to identify sheathed in gold, stood against Geogra p hic Magazine. 3-D WORLD its extent. the largest temples and flew long thought that Dr. Kendall's source text deserves to be read for its own sake, and would be of particular interest to DataCAD users.
Into the Semi-Unknown The sanctuary of Amun, chief among the gods in the Egyptian pantheon, near the bank of the upper Nile River, at Jebel Barkal, in wh at is today the Republic of Sudan, served as the southern frontier of the empire of the pharaohs in antiquity. The sanctuary was an enormous complex of religious structures, built at the base of a mesa-like mountain that rises abruptly 320 Wire-frame model of the interior courtyard of the feet above the desert, and Great Temple of Amun at Jebel Barkal. extending around the mountain A Sanctuary of Vast and pennants of white and red. on three sides. Founded by t he Mythic Dimensions The pinnacle, beside the Egyptians about 1430 B.C., it Roughly the same size as the mountain, is a natural rock seems to have grown over the precinct of Amun at Karnak in formation, a spire rising 260 feet centuries by accretion and Egypt, the Jebel Barkal temple from the base of the mountain, without plan, until its heyday complex is about one half yet separated from the mountain about 650 B.C., when it became kilometer square in area. It is by a ravine 40-feet wide. The the chief cult center of Kush, the dominated by the vast ruin of the pinnacle's summit displays sanctuary at Jebel Barkal Great Temple of Amun which is evidence of having been covered consisted of 19 substantial itself 200 meters (650 feet) long. with plates of gold, fastened with buildings. Eight were certainly Vestiges of smaller buildings far bronze nails, centuries ago. temples, although the divine in front of this edifice indicate From some perspectives, this occupants of some have still not that it was approached, from the pinnacle creates the impression been identified. Three were town and from the river, by a of being a carved statue, palaces of different periods. sacred way very nearly a reminiscent of the colossal Many buildings yet remain kilometer in length. This road, statues of Ramses at Abu Simbel. unexcavated, their form and although now buried in sand to a However, the Boston expedition function still a mystery. Even depth of two or more meters, was recovered evidence that in among the known structures, probably lined with shops, way ancient times it was imagined to each seems to have gone through stations for sacred processions, be the form of a rearing cobra. several building phases. The monuments, and perhaps even Since the cobra was the symbol
2 of royal power that adorned the earthquakes. Such natural the temples to one another. headdresses and crowns of the destructive processes continue Photographs shot from a low kings and queens of Egypt in today, with the added element of flying aircraft by Enrico pharaonic times, it is now clear man. Throughout the last Ferorelli, a member of the team, why this mountain was believed century, the ruins were used as a enhanced the ground survey and to be the source of kingship and quarry for stone, and standing allowed the team to identify and why Jebal Barkal became the walls and columns were eagerly plot heretofore unrecognized center for royal coronations. torn down for ready-made structures beneath the soil, and building material. Today, sadly, to add their approximate shapes An Inhospitable Place the temples are in an advanced and plans to the survey. Next, The god of ancient Napata state of decay and disintegration. from its close study of the chose a uniquely unfavorable Many have nearly disappeared surviving architectural remains place for man to erect his from view. of each building, including all monuments. This is one of the extant fragments of relief harshest environments on earth. Previously Unimaginable decoration, the team was able to In contrast to Egypt, where far Accuracy of establish approximately the more ancient buildings remain Reconstruction original heights of the walls, standing almost intact, today With the help and support of pylons, and columns of each there is left at Jebel Barkal only the Sudan Antiquities Service building so that restoration a chaotic wreck of tumbled walls and of the National Geographic drawings of its axial and lateral and low ruins. Society, a revived Museum of elevations could be produced. In ancient times, only a strong Fine Arts, Boston, expedition in Susanne Gansicke, Assistant will could have ensured the collaboration with the Italian Conservator of Objects and continued existence of the team from the University of Sculpture at the Museum of Fine temples, for they would have Rome, has been able to Arts, prepared the restoration required constant maintenance reconstruct the Jebel Barkal plans in final form. William against the ravages of the temples with a degree of Riseman, Kevin Smith, and environment. Once the will was removed about the fourth century A.D., their rapid destruction was certain. Throughout the winter months, the wind blows almost unceasingly off the desert from the North, often at gale force, blasting the site with fine dust and sand, and rapidly scouring away the exposed surfaces of walls, heaping up piles of sand here and there in great drifts. In antiquity, all ofthis must have required a constant vigilance and labor to remove. In the summer Interior view of a courtyard in the Great Temple of Amun at Jebel Barkal, reconstructed months, occasional heavy with DataCAD, and rendered with Velocity. rainstorms burst over the site, accuracy not possible, and by a Heather Conway of the centuries ago damaging the means unimaginable, even a few architectural firm of William wooden roofs of the temples with years ago. Here is how it was Riseman Associates in Boston, their mud brick surfaces, and done. Massachusetts, entered these smearing the plastered and In 1989, David A. Goodman of plans into the DataCAD(') painted walls. Late summer the California Department of computer-aided design system to would bring the Nile floods, Transportation surveyed the create a three-dimensional which even now engulf the ruins entire site with a computerized computer model of each temple. several times each century, Sokkisha theodolite and elec Then, they set each temple into fouling them with mud and silt, tronic distance measure, lent by its correct position and elevation and undermining their soft the Leitz Corporation of Kansas on the master site map which sandstone foundations. Two of City, Missouri. This survey they had also re-created in the temples, built too close to the allowed the team to determine to DataCAD, thus creating a three cliff, were even in antiquity, within a few millimeters the dimensional computer model of destroyed by falls of rock from precise plan and elevation of the entire site, complete with the cliff, perhaps dislodged by each temple, and the relation of (Continued on page 4)
3 DataCAD and Archeology Animating Dust. .. stood, as well as, to create a (Continued from page 3) topographical map of the mesa by Maribeth Schneider like mountain at Jebel Barkal. mountain and pinnacle. This With information supplied by computer model is fully inter William Riseman Associates Timothy Kendall and by active, and allows anyone now to of Boston, Massachusetts, took Susanne Gansicke, Assistant view the temples from any angle up a challenge to create three Conservator of Objects and or from any height, and even to dimensional rendered models, in Sculpture at the Museum of Fine walk through the complex or DataCAD, of at least one of the Arts, Kevin and Heather used through any individual temple. temples at Jebel Barkal, as it DC ModelerTM to extrude these William Riseman Associates appeared centuries ago. The lines or vectors representing the next transferred the DataCAD rendered models were to serve as walls upward to form a three model, which could only be illustrations in the article dimensional wire-frame model. viewed as transparent wire written by Dr. Timothy Kendall, They constructed the columns, frame structures, to another Associate Curator of the pylons, cornices, roofs and beams software package called Department of Egyptian and using geometric entities such as VelocitY"'. Velocity converted all Ancient Near Eastern Art at the cylinders, truncated cones, of the wire-frame images of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, for revolved surfaces, tori, slabs, etc. temples into shaded solid forms, publication in the November They also constructed the creating an illusion now of real 1990 issue of National mountain three dimensionally, architecture. Then, Riseman Geographic Magazine. From and then performed a hidden Associates used a digital video the technical standpoint, the line removal on the wire-frame
T interface called Vision 16 Card " most laborious part of model to produce a vectorlline with Color Scheme lIm software reconstructing the ruins was rendering.
Surface Modeling and CompOSite Rendering National Geographic first required concept-image compo sitions called comps. These comps were to show the computer reconstructions of the temples superimposed onto pictures of the site as it exists today. Riseman Associates created several hundred, low resolution, 512x486 pixel, .6RN rendered files from which the editors could choose. The Temple of Mut, in Egyptian mythology, the goddess-wife of Amun, built into the base Bill used DataCAD's Velocity of J ebel Barkal (reconstructed with DataCAD, rendered with Velocity, superimposed on a to create a three-dimensional photograph of the site). solid models. Velocity allows a by Time Arts, Inc. to overlay the doing the actual wire-frame user to assign color, lighting/ Velocity solid-model images of drawings. With the collaboration shading, opacity/transparency, the temples onto real photo- of Skip Mulch of CAD VISION, and texture mapping (such as graphs of the site which had Kevin Smith and Heather brick, wood, marble, metals or been taken from the same angle Conway used DataCAD on 386 stone) to create a rendered .6RN and perspective. This produced computers (33 MHz) with 8 file as output. By rendering the images of how a restored Jebel megabytes of RAM. images individually, one image Barkal would look that have an First, they entered the three- can then be overlaid on top of uncanny photographic quality. dimensional survey information another so that you can see It allowed for conceptualization taken from the site at Jebel through parts of the image as if as never before. As excavations Barkal into DataCAD. These it were a ghost. For instance, Bill continue at Jebel Barkal over the data were a series of points Riseman took a photo of the coming years, and as more of the taken from an on-site survey of ruins as they exist today, then ancient buildings are revealed, the remaining ruins. They used overlaid a rendered image the DataCAD model produced in two-dimensional lines to connect "ghosted" to the degree of 1989-1990 can be easily corrected these points to represent the transparency that he wanted, and refined after each season to floor plans locating where the then overlaid the original photo reflect all the new discoveries. walls and the columns once to put the sand and other details
4 in the right places. This could more easily visualize what Editor's Note technique allows the user they would have been like fantastic opportunities to centuries ago. New Third-party "create" images of what could be rather than what really exists. Going To Press DataCAD Newsletter After National Geo Evan H. Shu, AIA, one of the New Process graphic had selected the final founders ofDBUG (DataCAD Boston The image that Bill obtained comp for Tim Kendall's article Users' Group) in Boston, after marrying the photo with about the Jebel Barkal Massachusetts, is introducing a new the ghosted image displayed too excavations, they required a monthly newsletter for DataCAD Iowa resolution, at 512x486 computer-rendered-image file of users called CHEAP TRICKS. pixels, for National the temple identified as B500 to Evans' goal is to complement 3-D Geographic to use in print. For be transferred directly into their WORLD and WindowIn on DataCAD, print pictures of good quality, a Hell™ computer system. The published by Chris Davis in resolution of 2700x2025 is Hell computer is a Scitex Middlebury, Vermont. Since July required. Bill Riseman emulating, pre-press-processing 1987, WindowIn on DataCAD has developed a process for going computer system. The Hell offered a treasure of information to digitally, from the Velocity system needed a full-color, high DataCAD users. rendered image, directly to print, resolution, 32-bit image of the Evan Shu brings a wealth of rather than the classical way of temple B500 to superimpose on experience to his newsletter. He is doing things which would have top of a high-resolution, digitally president of Shu Associates, a nine involved rendering the drawing, scanned, photographic image of year-old, full-service architectural putting it onto film, scanning the the existing site. firm. He is co-author of the Boston film into the computer, and then To meet this need, Riseman Society of Architects' bestseller making composite images. Associates converted the Velocity CADD and the Small Firm. Evan Bill imported the Velocity .6RN rendered-image file that is also a frequent contributor to other rendered images of the temples they had created earlier into a publications. He has a demonstrated into Color Scheme 2™, a Targa .TGA (Type 10) format knack for making the complicated sophisticated, color/paint using Velocity's VEL2TGA seem simple. software product by Time Arts, utility. Another collaborator, 3-D WORLD welcomes CHEAP Inc. Using a Vision 16™ image Sam Curtis, Support Engineer at TRICKS. We enthusiastically capture board, he displayed the Computerized Graphics, Inc. in support both Evan Shu with CHEAP computer images on a 27" Boston, converted the Targa file TRICKS and Chris Davis with television set. Bill then into a Scitex Handshake CT file, WindowIn on DataCAD. combined the Velocity renderings on his Macintosh Model IICI For subscription information and in Color Scheme 2, with the computer. A Scitex Handshake a free copy of CHEAP TRICKS' existing site photographs. In CT file is a continuous tone, premier issue, contact Shu order to send National uncompressed, digital file. The Associates, 10 Thacher Street, Suite Geographic the images for file size of the rendered image of 114, Boston, MA 02113. Telephone review, Bill snapped some 35mm temple B500 had now exploded and FAX: (617) 367-9622. photographs from the television from approximately 8 megabytes For subscription information screen, and also taped some of as a Velocity file, to 22 mega about WindowIn on DataCAD the pictures with VHS video bytes as a CT file. National contact C.L. Davis Consulting recorder. To create digital Geographic converted this CT Associates, P.O. Box 502, Middle images from 35mm slides of the file into the Hell pre-press bury, Vermont. Telephone: (802) existing site, Bill and his system's DESS file format for 388-798l. FAX: (802) 388-6263. associates used a 35mm slide printing with Tim Kendall's projector and a super VHS article. camcorder connected to the An interesting footnote: If n~ ©#1[Q)~ VMilg Vision 16 image-capture board, National Geographic's Hell Instructional video tapes with Study in place of a very expensive slide system could have accepted Guides. Now available for versions scanner. The Vision 16 image output from Lumina™, a high 1.4, CAD KEY Light, and 3.5. capture board converts the video resolution version of Color Designed by experienced teachers analog signal to a digital .PIX Scheme 2 by Time Arts, Inc., Bill for use with groups or individuals. file, a compressed computer-file Riseman could have produced For information contact: format that can be up to half a the final results, in his office, on Microcomputer Education Systems megabyte in size. Bill also a desktop system costing less 4900 Blazer Parkway videotaped key frame animations than fifteen thousand dollars. Dublin, Ohio 43017 of walk-arounds and fly-throughs Editor's Note: Maribeth Schneider is Phone: 614-793-3069 Fax: 614-766-3605 of the temples so that the viewer Associate Editor of 3-D WORLD. 5 Notes from DataCAD You Begin letter, in the this time. DataCAD users who README.DOC file, and in the need this correction will be able Tech Support Getting Started section of the to obtain a corrected update, free Installing Version 4.0 DataCAD Volume 1, Design and of charge, on request. In the A number of people have not Drafting Guide. meantime, to avoid the problem, been following the installation enter all bearings through the instructions (Volume 1, Getting Bearing Angle Problem keyboard. Started ) and, as a result, have Use the keyboard to enter all been corrupting their DataCAD bearing information in the Plotter Layout Problems (Version 4.0) disks. You MUST Settings, AngleTyp, Bearing If you are configured for type A:INSTALL
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Plotting Problems with Bus There are some errors in the current Velocity User Guide related Mouse to graphic-device drivers. If you have a bus mouse and * On page A-14, the Environment Variable reads: a plotter connected to COM1 , SET DC_GDT=IBM8514A,60,O,O,O,1. you may get an error message: It should read: "Connect plotter to the computer. SET DC_GDT=IBM8514A,60,l,O,O,1. Press any key to continue." when * On page A-42, the Environment Variable reads: you try to plot. When you press SET DC_GDT=VMI,[grmode],O,O, [O = dual, 1 = single]. a key, the computer locks-up. It should read: Because the default port for SET DC_GDT=VMI,60[grmode],O,O,[O = dual, 1 = single]. the mouse is COM1 , in the * On page A-46, the heading reads: Verticom HX-256. DataCAD CONFIG program, It should read: Verticom H-256. even when a bus mouse is * On page A-48, the heading reads: Verticom H-256. selected, the CONFIG program It should read: Verticom HX-256. gets confused if the plotter port Also on page A-48, the Environment Variable reads: is also set to COM1. SET DC_GDT=IBM8514A,60,O,O,O,[O = dual, 1 = single]. The work-around is to run It should read: the CONFIG program and SET DC_GDT=IBM8514A,60,1,O,0,[0 = dual, 1 = single]. temporarily select a serial * On page A-52, the Device Driver reads: 7VR256.EXE. mouse. Set the mouse port to It should read: V7VR256.EXE. COM2. Then, set the mouse Also on page A-52, the Environment Variable reads: back to a bus mouse. Now the SET DC_GDT=7VR256,60,[grmode],0,0,1. plotter and the mouse are set to It should read: different port numbers and you SET DC _ GDT= V7VR256,60,[grmode],0,0,1. should be able to plot without any difficulty. DataCAD TECH TIPS Two Tech Tips for DataCAD (Version 4.0)
by Paul Mailhot graphical vector data contained disk. If you configure your in the drawing file, for the system to use EMS, designate New Graphics Drivers current view displayed on the the hard disk or RAM disk DataCAD(Rl (Version 4.0) has monitor. The data in the record storage as an overflow area for adopted the CADKEY Resident is stored in random-access the display list. If you use the Graphics Drivers as its own. memory (RAM) and is ready for display-list feature, load the These are TSR (Terminate and immediate display on the screen. display-list driver along with the Stay Resident) programs, which DataCAD's software display list graphics-display driver by typing means that they occupy some of stores a 2-D projected description RUNDCAD at the DataCAD the 640 kilobytes of base memory of DataCAD's 3-D data in prompt (for example, C:\ used by DOS. To achieve expanded memory or in an MTEC». RUNDCAD loads both optimal performance, you may extended-memory virtual disk, drivers and starts DataCAD . want to load the driver into depending on the configuration As with the TSR programs memory above the DOS 640K of your system. The software mentioned above, you can use a (between 640K and 1MB) using a display list gives you almost memory manager, such as memory manager, such as instantaneous panning and QEMM or 386MAX, to load QEMM or 386MAX. This allows zooming capabilities. This DataCAD's Software Display List DataCAD to access more base feature works with any graphics Driver into high memory memory to make the program card for which a DataCADI (between 640K and 1MB). This run faster. CADKEY Resident Driver is allows DataCAD to access more available. base memory to make the Software Display List To use the software display program run faster. e The 2-D software display list list, your system needs at least 1 Editor's Note: Paul Mailhot is an is a new feature of DataCAD megabyte of expanded memory Instructor in CADKEY's Learning (Version 4.0). A software display storage (EMS) or extended Systems Group. list is a record of all of the memory configured as a RAM 7 Dramatic News Level Descriptors and outside of the window. Pop-up Level-Listing CADKEY Version 4 Functions Enhancements to CADL (Continued from page 1) You can now create or and the CADKEY Part-File modify a description of the Tool Kit the software works in any contents on each level in a part New features in CADLTM network configuration. If a file file. The descriptions for each (CADKEY Advanced Design is locked, more than one designer level can be listed using the new language) resemble the can still have access to the file pop-up level-list function. This structures of the C programming for viewing. Designers can even pop-up level list identifies the language. CADL now allows you make changes to the file. But, to level number, its active status, to include such operations as If save any changes made in the its display status, the number of Then Else, Switch Case, For locked file, the modified file can entities on the level, and the Loop, While Loop, Do While be saved only by using a level's descriptor name. You can Loop, Define Constants, Include filename that is not the same as modify the level's active status, Files, and Conditional the locked file's name. This display status, and descriptor Compiling. preserves the integrity of the name directly in the pop-up list. Specific CADKEY commands data in the original locked file. also feature new enhancements: This also means that two or more X-FORM for 3-D Color Icon, Line Type Icon, Line designers can work concurrently Transformations Width Icon, Entity ID, Attribute on the creation of a complex The X-FORM function now Change, and Get Cursor. These project, in the same part file, allows you to make three enhancements provide greater without disturbing each other's dimensional transformations, flexibility for customizing your work. They can use pattern files including 3-D definition of system to your own to integrate their individual rotational axes and mirror requirements. developments later on. planes. X-FORM now includes CADKEY Version 4 features two new functions: Helical a new, user-definable type of Enhanced On-line Tutorial Rotation and Circular Array. data entity: Copious Data. The System Any X-FORM function that Copious Data Entity allows you CADKEY's acclaimed on makes copies of entities now to store user-defined data, (e.g., line, Computer-Based Training automatically updates your bill of materials) with your part module has expanded to guide group table for accurate bill-of file. You can create a Copious brand-new, beginning CAD users material calculations. The Data Entity only through CADL. through the basics of computer Rotation function in X-FORM However, you can manipulate a aided design and the basics of allows you to join entities with Copious Data Entity using CADL CADKEY in just a few hours. lines or arcs. Unidirectional or CADKEY's new part-file Tool The tutorials are a series of 16 scaling, independent scaling Kit. lessons, each of which takes along each coordinate axis, and CADKEY has added a new, approximately 20 minutes. A negative scale factors have all part-file Tool Kit to CADKEY new user can work through each been added to the Scale function. Version 4's set of tool kits for lesson during a coffee break, if third-party developers. This that is the only convenient time Enhanced Window part-file Tool Kit gives third for training. The tutorials Selection Control parties direct access to the data introduce you to CADKEY's user The global selection menu in a CADKEY part file. Such interface, creation of basic now allows you to define your access allows third-party geometry, two-dimensional own selection window as a developers to add information drafting, three-dimensional polygon (fence) for selecting drawn from another software modeling, and detailing entities. You can use any kind of program, (e.g. supplementary bill functions. polygonal shape to define your of material data) to a CADKEY window. Now, too, you can part file. On-line Quick-Reference choose how entities are selected On-line Printing and Help using either the standard Plotting Configuration CADKEY Version 4 also rectangular window or the new CADKEY Version 4 provides offers you on-line, quick user-defined polygonal window. on-line printing and plotting reference help at the touch of a You can select all the entities capabilities that allow you, key. CADKEY's help system is inside the window or all the without leaving the model in context sensitive. It provides you entities outside the window, and your part file, to configure with help for the functions in the in either case you can decide output to a printer or to a plotter menu in which you are currently whether to include those entities that is different from the printer working. that are partly inside and partly or plotter that you originally 8 specified in configuring your never get lost due to running out Chain Dimension allows you system. 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Introduction to CADKEY 12-14 10-12 21-23 18-20 lntroduction to DataCAD 26-28 7-9 Advanced Geometric Modeling 15-16 13- 14 24-25 2 1-22 CADKEY SOLIDS 19-20 28-30 lntroduction to CADL 28-30 Introduction to DCAL 3-4 Note: The DCAL courses take place on Saturday-Sunday. 1 BLA CKL I NE CADKEY/DataCAD Training In U.S. & Canada ABCDEFG1 23 4 T 3 ::0 0 Many authorized CADKEY and DataCAD Training Centers have scheduled 2 Block c:: courses in addition to the training available at CADKEY's world headquarters " here in Manchester, CT. The following is a list of who is doing what, where, AB eDab ed 1234 and when: .....-..... State CTC Location/Contact Course Dates 3 :!e'l'irt Calif. CAD 11936 W.Jefferson Blvd.lntro. to Nov. 14-16 A ~ ~~ (1~(j d123 4- MicroSystems Suite A CADKEY Dec. 12-14 Culver City, CA Jan. 9-11 ~ To ur in g Monica Hunter Advanced Jan. 23-24 fo\~~~ @~ ~ ~~ 2 3 (213) 391-7226 CADKEY LIJ or - CADKEY Jan. 22 '- 5 HELVETT T SOLIDS =r :::r 0 TI Consulting 14621 Titus St. Intra. to 3rd full week AB COEF G1 234 OJ =-n Services Van Nuys, CA CADKEY of each month. a.. ro International Bob Messamer Advanced Scheduled ....., b QicDrQw <= (818) 994-8881 CADKEY on request. =- '-- AB[D abed 123Y 7<" Desktop 18200 Yorba Linda Bd. DataCAD for Nov. 6-15 ""=> C) Productions Yorba Linda, CA the Architect Nov. 7-16 7 ~lbtyp t -= Carol Buehrens Tue.trhurs. Nov. 27-Dec. 6 h .,'.'3 (714) 579-3066 or A~ffi~a brb 123 ® Wed.lFri. "" '"i§i DC Modeler Nov. 2 and 20 's -0.. B Kirk Advanced Nov. 5 <, '"u "a "? DataCAD 0 ABe Dabed 1234 ~ Q.. ~ DataCAD Nov. 12 Q e A IE IC '"E ~ Par a~ 0 n "" DataCAD Nov. 26 Manager ABeD aDen 12j4 DataCAD Nov. 19 Viewmaster ~m ~ ~ ~rnrn~ Evergreen 3095 Yerba Buena Rd. Intro. to Jan . 11, 12, 19 -= IT] rn rn [lJ aJ OJ rn [{] 0~ § Valley San Jose, CA CADKEY Mar. 25-27 College Loren Fromm (408) 274-7900 ezFonts by Golden 15744 Golden West St. Intra. to Mar. 1-3 West Huntington Beach, CA CADKEY HLB Technology College Jack North (714) 895-8209 1-800-729-6520
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CADKEY Scheduled -3 ABCOEFG 1234 ~ SOLIDS on request. -g TI Indian River 3209 Virginia Avenue Intro. to Nov. 2-4 ChIll~~y . ~ Community Fort Pierce, FL CADKEY College Dean Zirwas AIBCalbc R234 (407) 468-4700, x4269 Ill. PFB 2525 E. Oakton Av. Intro. to Nov. 7-9 e It! \ I • , , Concepts Arlington Heights, IL CADKEY Dec. 12-14 • Bob Konczal Advanced Nov. 28-30 (708) 640-1853 CADKEY CADKEY Dec. 20-21 SOLIDS CADL On request. PageMaker Nov. 15-16 forCADKEY Ind. Tri-State Technology Division Intro. to Feb. 9, 16,23 University Angola, IN CADKEY (Saturdays full Ed Nagle day) (219) 665-4262 Iowa Iowa Lakes 300 South 18th St. Intro. to Special Community Estherville, IA CADKEY schedules by College Roger Patocka request, (712) 362-2604 13 CADKEYIDataCAD Training in U.S. & Canada (continued) CADKEY TECH TIPS Location/Contact Course Dates State CTC Two Tech Tips Mass. Springfield 1 Armory Square Intro. to Jan. 7-9 Technical Springfield, MA CADKEY Mar. 19-21 by Paul Mailhot Community William White Jun. 3-5 e College (413) 781-7822 Using CADKEY's Slide Program Worcester 100 Institute Road Intro. to January, CADKEY's Slide Program allows you Polytechnic Worcester, MA CADKEY March, June to create self-running presentations of Institute Sean Anzoni (2nd or 3rd full CADKEY graphics. You control what is Pat Scavone week of month) displayed and how long it is displayed. (508) 831-5633 Call for dates. The first step in the slide-making process is to create the images, slide files, Mich. Future 5900 N. Lilley Rd. #101 Intro. to Nov. 27-29 to be used in your presentation. The Solutions Canton, MI CADKEY Dec. 18-19 Immediate Mode command Alt-F Paul Zwarka Advanced Nov. 6-7 captures a screen image and creates a (313) 981-7455 CADKEY Dec. 3-4 slide file. This slide file includes the FAX: (313) 981-7473 view of your part file, along with the Minn. Albert Lea 2200 Tech Dr. Intro. to menus and prompts, displayed on the Technical Albert Lea, MN CADKEY Scheduled monitor at the time that you used Alt-F Institute Larry Gilderhus Advanced on request. to create and save the slide. (507) 373-0656 CADKEY After you have saved a series of slide files, the second step is to create a script Anderson- 2575 N. Fairview Av. Intro. to Nov. 12-14 file as illustrated below in Example. txt. O'Brien St. Paul, MN CADKEY Use a line editor or word processor to Michele Roby create a text file in ASCII format. The (612) 636-2869 filename for the script file MUST have .txt Anoka 11200 Mississippi Blvd. Intro. to Oct. 22-Nov. 15 as its extension. Use the CLEAR Ramsey Coon Rapids, MN CADKEY (M. & W. eve.) command to clear the screen to prepare Community Tom Loftus Advanced Nov. 19-Dec. 10 it for each slide image that you plan to College (612) 427-2600 CADKEY (M. & W. eve.) use. The SLIDE command must come Macros & Nov. 13, Dec. 10 immediately before each slide's filename. (Customized classes Calculator The WAIT command must follow at CTC or on site Intro. to Dec. 17-19 immediately after each SLIDE command. scheduled on DataCAD WAIT allows you to specify the number request.) Adv. Geom. Dec. 20-21 of seconds that the slide will be displayed Modeling on the screen. You can vary the number St. Paul 235 Marshall Ave. Intro. to Call for of seconds that you want to display each Technical St. Paul, MN CADKEY schedule. slide. Institute Michael Haffner (612) 221-1307 E x ample. tx t Mont. Montana West Park St. Intro. to Jan. 7-9 Clear 0 Tech Butte, MT CADKEY Slide S1.8LD Dick Johnson Wait 5 (406) 496-4452 Clear 0 N.C. Entre 110 Charlotte Plaza DataCADI Scheduled Slide S2.8LD Computer Charlotte, NC DataCADIl on request. Wait 10 Center John Murphy DC Modeler Clear 0 (704) 332-1557 Slide S3.SLD N.H. Portsmouth Alumni Drive Intro. to Call for Wait 3 Senior Portsmouth, NH CADKEY schedule. etc. High Kenneth Webber School (603) 436-7100 All of the slide files and the script file must reside in your CADKEY Dec. 10-12 N.M. New Mexico P.O. Box 30001 Intro. to subdirectory. To run your slide show, go Mar 11-13 State Dept. 3450 CADKEY to your CADKEY subdirectory, and at University Las Cruces, NM May 6-8 the CADKEY prompt (for example, Maurice Hamilton Advanced Dec. 13-14 C: \ CADKEY», type: (505) 646-3501 CADKEY Mar. 14-15 May 9-10 Slide Example. txt 14 Using AutoSwap CADKEYIDataCAD Training in U.S. & Canada (continued) AutoSwap, a memory management utility, located in the AS subdirectory on State CTC Location/Contact Course Dates the CADKEY Utilities disk, allows you N.Y. American 118-21 Queens Blvd. Intro. to Nov. 5-7 to go into CADKEY's DOS shell to run Training Forest Hills, NY CADKEY Dec. 3-5 other DOS-based application software. Center, Arkady Kleyner Jan. 7-9 AutoSwap frees the Random Access Inc. (718) 544-8100 Feb. 4-6 Memory used by CADKEY so that it is (800) 273-ATCI Advanced Nov. 8-9 available to you particularly if you need (N.Y. only) CADKEY Dec. 6-7 to run other large programs. When you Jan. 10-11 terminate the other program, you Feb. 7-8 return to CADKEY exactly at the point Intro. to Nov. 12-14 where you left. You can find additional DataCAD Dec. 10-12 information about AutoSwap in the file Jan. 14-16 AS.DOC, on the CADKEY Utilities disk. Feb. 11-13 Advanced Nov. 15-16 DataCAD Dec. 13-14 Notes from CADKEY Tech Jan. 17-18 Feb. 14-15 Support Rochester 1 Lomb Memorial Dr. Intro. to Dec. 4-6 Institute of Rochester, NY CADKEY Feb. 4-6 Prompt Not Found Technology Dr. Robert Hefner Advanced Nov. 14-16 When the error message, Prompt not (716) 475-2205 CADKEY Jan. 14-16 Found .. error file=clerr.txt pmpt_num=n, S.U.N.Y. at School of Engineering Intro. to Feb. 11-Mar. 18 occurs, copy the CLERR. TXT file, found Farmingdale Lupton Hall CADKEY (Mon. evenings) in the CDL directory, into the CADKEY Farmingdale, NY Advanced Apr. 8-May 13 root directory. Use your text editor to Harriet Kaiser CADKEY (Mon. evenings) read the prompt-number reference in (516) 420-2158 the CLERR. TXT file. Reading the prompt-number reference can help you Ohio Progressive 6964 Spinach Dr. Intro. to Nov. 19-20 to determine the cause of the error. Computing Mentor, OH CADKEY Dec. 3-4 Corp., Inc. Jean Kempton Advanced Nov. 13-14 Not Enough Core (216) 255-0460 CADKEY Dec. 10-11 Many people are getting the error CADKEY Nov. 26-27 message, Not Enough Core, when SOLIDS running CADKEY SOLIDS with DOS CADL and Nov. 29-30 Version 4.01. The problem is that, after Macros loading DOS V.4.01 , CADKEY, and any Ore. CTR 6420 SW Macadam Av. Intro. to Courses offered RAM-resident drivers or programs into Business Portland, OR CADKEY every month. your system, there is not enough of the Systems Sandi McNeil Advanced Call for 640K RAM left to run any external (503) 293-8627 CADKEY schedule. processes. These processes are affected Rogue 3345 Redwood Hwy. Advanced Jan 3-Mar. 14 by the size of the DOSMEM value that Community Grants Pass, OR CADKEY (Tu. & Th. a.m.) you assign in the program options of College Del Harris Intro. to Jan. 3-Mar. 14 CADKEY'S CONFIG program. To run (503) 479-5541 DataCAD (Tu. & Th. eve.) CADKEY SOLIDS, assign at least 35K as the size of DOSMEM in the CONFIG Pa. Butler College Dr., Oak Hills Intro. to Nov. 9-10 program. If the error message, Not County Butler, PA CADKEY Enough Core, occurs again, increase the Community Mike Aikens size of DOSMEM in CONFIG even College (412) 287-8711 more, if possible. You can try to increase the amount of available RAM Computer- 1360 Harrisburg Pike Intro. to Scheduled by removing any RAM-resident drivers Land Lancaster, PA DataCAD on request, or other programs not required to run Lori Fraser Advanced on site or CADKEY. Some users have reported (717) 291-2111 DataCAD in house. success in making DOS smaller by Edinboro G-34 Hendricks Hall Intro. to Jan. 8-10 removing some of the features that DOS University Edinboro, P A CADKEY Mar. 26-28 Version 4.01 offers in its Setup program, ofPA Peter Mathews May 14-16 or by using a earlier version of DOS. (814) 732-2592 (Continued on page 16) 15 CADKEYIDataCAD Training in U.S. & Canada (continued) Notes from CADKEY Tech State CTC Location/Contact Course Dates Support (Continued fro m page 15) Pa. Lafayette Hall of Engineering Intra. to Dec. 12·13 College Easton, PA CADKEY Attention CADKEY SURFACES J .V. Poplawski Users! (215) 250-5400 CADKEY 386 (Version 3.55) Micro 390 Middletown Blvd. Intro. to Nov. 13-16 requires CAD KEY SURFACES 386. Control Langhorne, PA. CADKEY Dec. 11-14 Please do not use the DOS version of Inc. Marion Homan Jan. 15-18 CADKEY SURFACES with CADKEY (215) 752-5510 Advanced Nov. 5-7 386 (Version 3.55). And, please do not CADKEY load CADKEY 386 over CADKEY Intra. to Nov. 26-28 software that is using CADKEY DataCAD Dec. 17-19 SURFACES. CADKEYSURFACES386 Jan. 21 -23 has begun shipping to customers. If you Texas MLCCAD 5316 Highway 290WestIntro. to Nov. 7-9 H have any questions about updates, call Systems Austin, TX CADKEY Nov. 13-15 A Customer Service (203) 647-0220, Barbara Leesley Dec. 11-13 D extension 8030. (512) 892-6311 Dec. 17-19 A A =Austin Advanced Nov. 19-20 A VESA Graphics Drivers D =Dallas CADKEY Dec. 20-21 A H = Houston CADL On request. CAD KEY, INC. has two new VGA TexasA&I Industrial Technology Intra. to Jan. 2-4 graphics drivers that implement the University Campus Box 203 CADKEY specifications of the Video Electronics Kingsville, TX Standards Association (VESA) for 16- Herschel Kelley color and 256-color display. These (512) 595-2608 drivers work with CADKEY Version 4, CADKEY 3, CADKEY 386, DataCAD, Texas P.O. Box 4200 Intra. to Jan. 8-10 CADKEY RENDER, and DataCAD Tech Lubbock, TX CADKEY Mar. 18-20 Velocity, and they allow our software to University Mary Bentancourt May 14-16 work with any graphics hardware that (806) 742-3451 Aug. 20-22 conforms to the VESA specifications. Va. Republic 855 West Main St. DataCADI Jan. 14-16, 1991 The VESA drivers are currently Research Charlottesville, VA DataCADII Jan. 7-8 available on the CADKEY Electronic Training Gregg Kendrick DataCAD 3-D Jan. 9-10 Bulletin Board and in the CADKEY Center (804) 296-9747 Forum of the CompuServe(Ri Information (800) 476-4454 System, in Library 6: Graphics/ Rendering, file name: VESA.COM. Virginia 144 Smyth Hall Intra. to Dec. 17-18 They will be incorporated into all future Polytechnic Blacksburg, VA DataCAD product releases, beginning with Intel Institute Allen Bame CADKEY 386. In 256-color mode, the (703) 231 -6480 drivers run 640x400, 640x480, 800x600, Wash. Everett 801 Wetmore Av. Intra. to Jan. 23-25 1024x768, and I 280x1024. In I6-color Community Everett, WA CADKEY Mar. 27-29 mode, the drivers run 800x600 and College Stu Barger Jun. 19-21 1024x768. The VESA specification Kathy Ardmore Aug. 21-23 resembles TIGA and DGIS because it (206) 388-9429 provides CADKEY and DataCAD with some device independence. Walla Walla School of Engineering Intra. to Nov. 21 -23 College College Place, WA CADKEY Mar. 10-12 Stories to look for in the Dale Visger January/February 1991 3-D WORLD (509) 527-2712 Wis. CAD 120 Bishops Way, #136 Intra. to 2nd and 4th * * Progressive Die Design with CADKEY PROfessionals Brookfield, WI CADKEY Tuesdays of * * Interlock Uses CAD KEY to Design Inc. Dan Warsh Intra. to every month. Locks and the Dies to Make Them. (414) 782-9199 DataCAD CADKEY * * DoDDS and CADKEY Launch New CADKEY SURFACES Opportunities for Students! SOLIDS CADKEY Unfortunately these stories could not be RENDER included in this issue. 16 CADKEYIDataCAD Training in U.S. & Canada (continued) State CTC Location/Contact Course Dates Lakeshore 1290 North Avenue Intra. to Jan. 7-9 CADJ ETGeo Draft Technical Cleveland, WI CADKEY May 21-23 College Robert Moore Geometric Tolerancing (414) 458-4183 Milwaukee 1025 N. Milwaukee St. Intra. to Nov. 28-30 made School of Milwaukee, WI CADKEY Feb. 27-Mar 1 Engineering Marvin Bollman May 21-23 INCREDIBLY SIMPLE! (414) 277-7357 Wis. North 1000 Campus Dr. Intro. to Dec. 27-29 ~l)A~1'Y lNC~1)l~1~\ Central Wausau, WI CADKEY Additional Technical Michael Clark courses on "Intuitive and easy to College (715) 675-3331 request. use, GeoDraft is very Wyo. University 3085 Engineering Bldg. Intro. to Jan. 9-11 user friendly and aids of Laramie, WY CADKEY May 15-17 Wyoming Donald Polson Jul. 24-26 US a great deal in Jean Richardson Aug. 26-28 tolerancing our (307) 766-5255 d raWlngS. . " Gene Smith, Southaven Rubber Co., CANADA Southaven, MI Provo CTC Location/Contact Course Dates CADJETGeoDraft challenges British Pacific 265 West Esplanade Intro. to Nov. 17-18 all Dimensioning and Colum- Marine North Vancouver, B.C. CADKEY Courses also bia Training Mike Davison scheduled on Geometric Tolerancing Institute (604) 985-0622 request. Programs, including New New P.O. Box 2100, Sta. A Intro. to Scheduled Mainframes, to draw Bruns- Brunswick CAD/CAM Dept. CADKEY on request. Geometric Tolerancing wick Community 1234 Mountain Rd. On-site courses College Moncton, N.B. available. Symbols easier! Wayne Ritchie (506) 856-2169 Ontario Algonquin 200 Lees Av. Intra. to Jan.4-Feb. 6 College Ottawa, Ontario CADKEY (M. & W. eve.) Peter Casey Advanced Feb. ll-Mar. 6 -:~;U~ (613) 594-3888, x5904 CADKEY (M. & W. eve.) " ..... Qt.~ '--'.;,i. 'd .---~-r' ~ System Mar. ll-Apr. 3 ~ --' co.. 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Group Brian Naylor (519) 622-4495 17 CADKEYIDataCAD Training in U.S. & Canada (continued) Buell Motorcycles Provo CTC Location/Contact Course Dates (Continued from page 20) Ontario Ryerson 350 Victoria Street Intro. to Nov. 27-28 conceptualize as they see, in 3-D, so that Polytechnical Toronto, Ontario CADKEY Jun. 3-4 the translation between idea and design Institute, K. Doddridge Courses is less convoluted. He also wanted C.A.T.E. (416) 979-5106 on request. something that afforded him design Quebec APPLICAD 11956 Blvd. LaurentienIntro. to Scheduled flexibility but wouldn't inflate his Montreal, Quebec CADKEY on request. expenses. Although buyers may pay Walid Hadid $100,00 for a sports car, production (514) 336-5959 motorcycles, even high performance Vanier 425 Blvd. Maisonneuve Intra. ta Sept. 4-Dec. 6 ones, are traditionally priced from College West, Suite 1100 CADKEY (Tu. & Th.) between $15,000 and $20,000. Erik Montreal, Quebec realized that CADKEY gave him initial Dave Gallagher design flexibility at a low, fixed cost (514) 281-9807 without sacrificing sophisticated features ("I can give a machinist three CADKEY and DataCAD Training Centers that would like dates 01 scheduled training courses to appear different versions of the same part," he in 3-D WORLD, contact Peter Mancini, Educational Programs, CADKEY, INC., 440 Oakland Street, notes.) And, CADKEY would also help Manchester, CT 06040-2100. Telephone: (203) 647-0220. FAX: (203) 646-7120. as the company expands. As his design Colorado State University Correspondence Course in needs become even more sophisticated, CAD KEY Fundamentals (Versions 1, 1.4, 2.06M, 2.11 ), Self-paced and as Erik and the other designers introduction to CAD. Developed by Terry T. Wohlers and Dr. Paul J . become more adroit with the system, Resetarits. Contact: Division of Continuing Education, Colorado State expansion only requires more PCs and University, Spruce Hall, Fort Collins, CO 80523. Telephone: (800) 525- 4950. software, not the complications of a mainframe or mini-system. 3-D WORLD is published bi-monthly by CADKEY, INC., 440 Oakland Street, Manchester, CT 06040-2100. TELEPHONE: (203) 647-0220. FAX: (203) Evolutionary, Modular 646-7120. TELEX: 5106007223. If you need additional copies, or ifthere is a change in mailing address, please contact Frank Simpson, Editor; Maribeth Development of Motorcycles Schneider, Associate Editor, or Mary Beth Staron, Contributing Editor. Buell Motor Company's motorcycles © Co . ht 1990 b CADKEY INC. All ri hts reserved. have already evolved from the initial CfiDKEY DEfiLEitS KtiOW MOLD DESIGtI! 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He re-works them to the entire motorcycle. Erik also helped Buell Motor's relationship current specifications, and details the CADL file of each with a California-based imports them into contemporary component for use by machine machinist. The two realized that designs. Erik designs Buell shops that manufacture parts for they both use CADKEY as their motorcycles in modular fashion. Buell Motor Company. If the primary engineering tool. Soon Each component occupies a master part file becomes they were exchanging files single level. Erik begins with an unwieldy, he can delete the through CADL, and Buell says x,y plane, on Levell, geometry on particular levels, that they will probably continue representing the ground on and continue working, secure in to work together because of their which the motorcycle stands. the knowledge that reassembling common ground. 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The high quality components are produced specifically for Buell by the best names in the business: White Power, Performance Machine, Works Performance, etc. Casting machining, and Shock-absorber assembly of the Buell Motorcycle, Model RS1200, pictured on first page. fabricating are done by small, precision firms in the Milwaukee Erik Buell started his past 15 years has never area. "I produce the engineering motorcycle manufacturing subsided, to the detriment of drawings that all these firms company in Mukwonago, even such firmly established need using CADKEY" says Erik. Wisconsin, in the Horatio Alger companies as Harley-Davidson. "When we first started," he tradition of American But, Erik was convinced that explains, "we were a small entrepreneurs. Find yourself a there was a void in the market manufacturer and couldn't afford niche in the market that satisfies between the economical a draftsman, but I could do the professional and personal goals, Japanese models and the luxury engineering." Erik turned to and utilize your skills to start a Harleys. Riders wanted the CADKEY(R), and suddenly found company, preferably in the equivalent of a Porsche in a his design engineering "infinitely family garage. In the spring of motorcycle, so he founded the easier." The motorcycle that 1987, with experience at Buell Motor Company Inc. and results is as responsive as a race America's premiere motorcycle began to design the dream bike but as stable as a train." I manufacturer, Harley-Davidson, machine. combined exceptional chassis Erik found his niche market in rigidity with a steep steering high-performance motorcycles. Creating a New Motorcycle head angle and a short Not the big and beautiful Creating the kind of wheelbase (55 inches)," explains Harleys made famous in motorcycle that he wanted Erik. "This means that the bike Hollywood, but sleek sporty required three things: light does what the rider wants, when machines that combined weight, chassis rigidity, and he wants, without the wobble or aerodynamics with ergonomics high-quality components. Erik shake that is common on many and a sense of the rider. Fast developed a unique drivetrain bikes." and functional, powerful and mounting system that allows the "I had worked with other precise. engine to be a stressed member CAD programs, but I needed to The problem for a new of the chassis without work in 3-D," Erik recalls. "I motorcycle manufacturer was transmitting any of the vibration was more interested in the ferocious nature of the to the rider. The UniplanerTM conceptual design." Erik, like motorcycle market. As Erik system results in a motorcycle many designers, finds three points out, Honda's push in the that offers chassis rigidity that dimensions easier because people American market during the may be the best in the world (Continued on page 18) 20 00003036