Recent content by ccastelein

Sorry, from what i can tell this is not dos. try http://www.robvanderwoude.com/ for dos commands

I honestly dont know why. ive been tinkering around with this for a week or so... i get the same results. ill keep trying. wish i could be more helpful.

not familiar with the "esentutl" dos command... if there is any... if its a windows pop up your try to quelch you might try AUTOIT from www.hiddesoft.com that might solve your problem. hope that helps. ccastelein

First you need to let us know what os your using... second you can go to internet options and block all cookies... options>privacy>advanced> override auto block 1st party and 3rd party cookies... third i think your quotes are in the wrong place.. try this. del "C:\Documents and...

um.. no. why dont you tell us what your attemting to do, and maybe we can figure something out. maybe your looking for a delayed variable expansion... go to www.robvanderwoude.com and look up under batch commands "delayed variable expansion". also there is an "&" symbol(command) that could be...

two things... 1) EBGreen is right, %userprofile% will put in the path you need... to test if that is the path you want get to a dos promt (start>run>cmd) then type set this will show you a list of defined variables... userprofile should be one of them... 2) im pretty sure you your going to use...

carlak is correct... you need and object enabler. if you dont find one at the link he provided for your cad program you will probably have to upgrade or have the architect save down to a version you can bind with. hope this helps ccastelein

Hi ColmR, Sorry to hear about your file... Im guessing you may have an xref in the drawing? and that you may have tried to hatch something using the xref as a boundry...this is a sure fire way to corrupt your drawing really fast... there are a few things you can try... quickest and easiest is to...

in adt6 and im unable to customize the F4 key in the new CUI interface....the help says you can..but i cant get it to.. it will always put a SHIFT+ in front of it.. it was easy the old way...just edit the menu file and type what you want... why do they mess with a good thing? anyhelp? ccastelein

lukeroberts2005, I dont mean to sound bad, but you really need to read about PAPERSPACE, VIEWPORTS, and Scaleing thru Viewports...if not in your manual, at least in the F1 help menus...everything you need to know about plotting your drawing to a scale is in there.... Get back to us when you...

wibblewobblewow, I have come to grips that there is no way to simulate a carriage return in a dos batch file.... with that said, there still is hope. I turned to a new language that is very similar to dos. Give this serious consideration. it is called AutoIT. http://www.hiddensoft.com/AutoIt/...

i recently upgraded to windows xp from windows 2000... the "help center and support" is really lacking from windows 2000... Is there a way to change the xp help to be like windows 2000 help ? for example: i use the windows help to quickly look up the dos commands for their relavent switches...

ive always used a third party program to import excel into acad... try "spanner" or this product looks real promising after i downloaded the demo.. http://www.cadaddon.com/cgi-bin/products/ hope this helps cdc

theres also the cookie cutter trim... now only available with express tools via the command line "extrim" cdc

i guess i would need more information... do you want to invoke an explorer (like IE) and stop its default website and replace it with either "blank" or something else? if so, thats a registry setting at: My Computer\Hkey_Current_user\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main\start page i...