[13891] in Athena Bugs
Autocad bug
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (dot@MIT.EDU)
Mon Oct 2 12:48:24 1995
From: dot@MIT.EDU
Date: Mon, 2 Oct 1995 12:47:36 -0400
To: Eric F Prechtl <prechtl@MIT.EDU>, bugs@MIT.EDU
Cc:
Hi Eric,
I'm not sure that this helps any, but I am sorry you're having problems
with Autocad. AutoCAD has been used rather extensively on Athena for a
couple of years, and this is the first report I've heard of the problem
you describe. I'll look into it as soon as I have a chance. In the
meantime, if you can come up with some specific steps to duplicate the
problem or a drawing that exhibits the behavior or anything, please let
me know. It will help me debug it.
>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.
>
Hmm. What kind of machine are you using? Is it shared? on campus or
remote? Private or "General Use"?
>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.
>
Again, this is the first I've heard of this problem, so I don't think it
is common, but without more information I can't say for sure.
Dorothy
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Dorothy Bowe
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