[13887] in Athena Bugs
Autocad bug
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Eric F Prechtl)
Fri Sep 29 17:42:26 1995
To: bugs@MIT.EDU
Date: Fri, 29 Sep 1995 17:42:15 EDT
From: Eric F Prechtl <prechtl@MIT.EDU>
Hi,
I've been learning Autocad on Athena for the past few weeks and twice
now I've encountered the following bug:
I'll be using autocad and, specifically, commands like extrude and
render. I'll do something like draw a circle and then extrude that
into a cylinder - then, maybe 5 minutes later, I'll try to repeat
the same operation: I draw the circle and then, when I try to extrude
(using either the pull down menu or the command 'solext'), I get the error
message: "solext Unknown command. Type ? for list of commands"
I've talked to the athena consultants a bit - the best hypothesis they
came up with is that the autocad locker may have been detached while
I was running the program. But I'm really not sure.
I'm a bit concerned with this error because it makes Autocad useless
to me until the bug fixes itself. Is this a common problem? I'm
about to start a very large (I might even say "huge") project this
semester, using Autocad extensively, and I'm a little alarmed that this
error occurs relatively frequently.
Thank you for your attention.
Sincerely,
Eric F. Prechtl
37-348A
X3-7010
