[TheForge] I think I found my cad

[Grover Richardson]

At 12:33 PM 12/14/2001 -0500, you wrote:
>   I also have an old version of AutoCad mabye version 10. I think that 
> the whole thing is on 4 or 5, 5 1/4" floppies. Two tell the truth, if it 
> would run on this machine, I would use it.

Boot up the windows machine and reboot to dos, not a dos window.  Likely it 
will work so long as you don't have a funky monitor.  However, with W98, I 
have had some odd errors come up that knocks me out of the program 
sometimes.  Don't know why, though I suspect it's the config.sys settings.

>  I do have an old 486 maybe I should just find an old printer. All I 
> really needed was something to put out a dxf and dwg files. Any design 
> work that I do is for myself, mainly to make blacksmithing tools. I 
> wanted the dxf, so that I could send things out for laser cutting.

Probably any dxf for a specific printer would be sufficient for laser 
cutting, though I would ask them to be certain.  I do hpgl plots of my 
drawings for inclusion in articles.  Word sucks in the hpgl plots as 
pictures just as good as a jpg.

Let us know how it comes out!