Autocad R12 Dos Program
I am a technician for an engineer. He wanted a new pc so he got a dual boot system. WIn 98 and Win XP. I installed autodesk in dos mode (release 12). No error messages, yet it won't start. I start the interface by typing AWCD at the command prompt and I get the interface.
I click on Autocad release 12 for DOS and the screen goes black for 3 seconds and returns to the autodesk interface. The PC is a P4 3.2 GHZ HT processor and 1 GB of RAM. I made the entries in config.sys regarding files and buffers as the textbook suggested. I've tried a VGA and a SVGA driver and got the same results. I know this should be able to work but I need some assistance. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks Erick. Hi Below are a few links that a web search returned (hopefully one or two of them may prove helpful) - r12 DOS under Windows (ACAD R12 for Windows Installation (AUTOCAD 12 for DOS / WINDOWS 98 compatibility (R12 doesnt work on our Win98 ('Windows 98 AutoCAD Release 12' in 'All AutoCAD Groups' found 106 results (ID: DL148415 -AutoCAD R12 c3 Maintenance Releases (DOS) (ID: TS64663 - Safe mode in Windows 95/98/Me (ID: TS66241 - Windows速 2000 multiple-boot configuration installed on single partition not supported (ID: TS67190 - Installing twice on a dual boot system (Have a good one, Mike. The variables for pharlap386 seemed to have helped, although I can only start AutoCAD release 12 for DOS by typing acadr12.bat at the command prompt. I have the sofftdesk modules installed as well and they don't seem to work by going that route. Since I have 1 GB of ram, I entered the Maxfilecache=524288 in the system.ini file. I can even start ACAD by typing C: acad acad.exe in DOS mode. When I try C: awcd awcd the Autodesk interface starts.
I click on Autocad release 12 for DOS and then with Softdesk modules and nothing happens. The screen goes blank for three seconds and then back to the interface. I really need to get this going so if you have any more pointers, I would appreciate it. Thanks Erick. I had better luck running the batch files from an icon on the windows desktop rather than a DOS window OR a boot directly into DOS, but we were running EaglePoint design software instead of Soft desk. We initially did this with Windows 95, but it worked with 98 also.
I do remember having problems similar to what you describe, but after we got it working it ran great - almost instant program loading and faster command response time than any pure DOS installation I ever used. Braudel capitalism and material life pdf editor. I suspect there would be some additional set statements and search paths in a batch file to run the Soft desk product so a second batch file is probably necessary if you want to be able to run both vanilla AutoCAD and Soft desk.
How did you install the programs - from the install disks or restored from a backup? Try finding a batch file in the Soft desk parent or program directory that will call up the program - this file may have been in the root directory or somewhere else in the boot up DOS path and missed in a backup of the program or may have been placed there if it was a fresh install. The Dinosaur.
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Hanratty (most often referred to as 'the father of CAD CAM') developed PRONTO – the first commercial numerical control programming CAM system. 1959 Stromberk Carlson developed a system which interpreted graphics on some kind of tape and output these graphics on screen or printout graphics on special papers. 1960 John McCarthy invented the LISP (programming language used in AutoCAD ® until now) 1963 Ivan Sutherland (MIT‘s Lincoln Laboratory) developed the program named SKETCHPAD on the TX-2 computer and demonstrated the basic principles feasibility of computer aided engineering drawing. This is considered to be the first step to CAD industry. But still it was not commercial product yet. Georg Nemetschek founded his company as a civil engineering office in this year. 20 years later it started to produce well-known AEC system named Allplan.
1964 ITEK company developed CAD software research system named 'The Electronic Drafting Machine' for PDP-1 computer. Input commands were done with an electronic light pen and a large disk memory device used to refresh the graphic display. Consequently - Digigraphics division of Control Data Corporation released the first commercially available CAD software system - which was a successor to ITEK's earlier CAD software. It was priced at $500,000 per unit (only a very few units were ever sold).
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Hanratty co-designed CAD system, named DAC (Design Automated by Computer) at General Motors Research Laboratories. It was the first CAD/CAM system using interactive graphics (enabled to type car description, rotation, and viewing from different angles). Although DAC was said to be incredibly useful at its time, GM discarded the system when it upgraded its hardware. 1965 The Lockheed Corporation introduced its CAD/CAM system, and FEM system named CADAM (Computer Augmented Drafting and Manufacturing). 1966 McDonnell Douglas Automation Company ( McAuto) introduced its patented CAD program named CADD - originally developed for solving different geometry problems.
The program only ran on very expensive IBM mainframe computers. 1967 Ford Corporation introduced its CAD named PDGS 1968 Georg Nemetschek company started to develop software, initially only for in-house use 1969 More companies introduced their first commercial CADs at the end of the 60s. It is necessary to mention at least Applicon, Auto-trol, Computervision (sold its first commercial CAD system to Xerox), Evans & Sutherland, MAGI (released commercial 3D CAD Syntha Vision), McAuto, SDRC and United Computing (nowadays known as UGS). 1970 M&S Computing was founded (later becomes Intergraph) – At the beginning it was a consulting firm that supported government agencies in using digital technology. 1972 The first 3D solid modeling program SynthaVision from MAGI (Mathematics Application Group, Inc.) was released - not as CAD software but as a program for performing 3D analysis of nuclear radiation exposure. 3D models in this system were solid models similar to models used by later 3D CAD software. MCS company released its first CAD named ADAM (Automated Drafting and Machining), it ran on 16-bit computers, and it was one of the first commercially available mechanical design packages. The user interface of ADAM was already controlled by menu.
1973 United Computing introduced UNI-GRAPHICS system. It provided basic 2D modeling & drafting functionality and supported 14 layers. The Hillman Trust purchased Auto-tro and announced Auto-Draft, one of the first turnkey graphic systems available. 1975 The French aerospace company, Avions Marcel Dassault (AMD), purchased a source-code license of CADAM from Lockheed and three years later began developing a 3D CAD software program named CATIA (Computer Aided Three Dimensional Interactive Application). 1976 MCS introduced AD-2000, a design and manufacturing system for the first 32-bit computers. This CAD was the direct successor of the ADAM United Computing, and their UNI-GRAPHICS was acquired by McDonnell Douglas ( McAuto).
1977 Nemetschek started selling its 'Programm system Statik 97/77' for civil engeneering. Avions Marcel Dassault started developing the forerunner of CATIA named CATI. Its major advance over CADAM was real approach to 3D modelling.
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1978 Herb Voelcker developed solid modeler named PADL (Part and Assembly Description Language), which was subsequently used in several commercial 3D solid modeling CAD software programs. McAuto released Unigraphic R1 ('R' means Restructured) T&W Systems released CAD named T-Square 1979 Boeing, General Electric a NIST began to develop a neutral file format called IGES (Initial Graphic Exchange Standard) Cymap, an English company, started developing HVAC and Electrical drawings software. Their major product will be CADLink.
M&S Computing (nowadays known as Intergraph) developed the first interactive CAD product IGDS (Interactive Graphics Design Software) At the end of the 70s a typical CAD system was a 16-bit minicomputer with maximum of 512 Kb memory and 20 to 300 Mb disk storage. This decade was the time when the basic CAD features were formed – especially the fundamental geometric algorithms. The computer's price was about $125,000, and the first commercial CAD systems resellers started to be formed. 1980 T&W Systems released Versa CAD M&S Computing renamed itself to Intergraph 1981 Unigraphics introduced its solid modeling system, UniSolids. It was based on PADL-2 solid modeling kernel Avions Marcel Dassault (AMD) established its Dassault Systemes subsidiary and announced CATIA Version 1 – the product for 3D design, surface modeling and NC programming The Nemetschek Programmsystem GmbH company was founded. 1982 A company called P-CAD released a CAD program called CADplan.
Later the product was purchased by CalComp and renamed to CADVANCE T&W Systems reprogrammed its software named T-Square for the Apple II computer and introduced it as CADapple SDRC company announced the first I-DEAS. Autodesk (initially called Marin Software Partners) was founded by sixteen people in this year by initiative of computer programmer John Walker. The main idea was to create a CAD program for a price of $1000 able to run on PC. One of the objectives was to create a CAD system as open as possible. The first version of AutoCAD was based on a CAD program written in 1981 by Mike Riddle called MicroCAD.
AutoCAD-80 (respectively AutoCAD 1 for PC) was demonstrated for the public in November at the COMDEX trade show for the first time. At this time DWG and DXF formats were also defined! 1983 Unigraphics was basically still the original MCS ADAM software, although significantly revised by United Computing and subsequently by McAuto. The new software (substantially a new product) after a complete re-architecting was named as Unigraphics II version 1 - and earlier software was now called Unigraphics I. Adra Systems was founded and soon after that it began releasing its CADRA 2D CAD Jon Hirschstick (who later started SolidWorks) founded a company called Premise. Their first product was DesignView - simple parametric 2D tool.
T&W Systems noticed that its SW CADapple had greater functionality than did AutoCAD at that point in time. They re-made it to a PC platform and named it as VersaCAD The work started for a new reliable and universal system of transferring data called STEP (Standard for the Exchange of Product model data). The first generally available STEP translator was released in 1991 by EDS Unigraphics 1984 CATIA Version 2 was released and became the aeronautical application leader. Radar CH ( ArchiCAD’s predecessor) for Apple was released. 1985 Matra Datavision company (founded in 1980), released its Euclid-IS solid modeling 3D CAD software which used a unique hybrid models. Parametric Technology Corporation (known as PTC) was founded by Dr.
From the beginning, the PTC was only 3D CAD systems reseller. Before that - Dr. Geisberg had worked for Computervision and also for Applicon. Diehl Graphsoft was founded and released MiniCAD which rapidly became the best selling CAD software on the MAC. Keith Bentley founded Bentley Systems, Inc. and the first version of Microstation was released. At the beginning MicroStation was a clone of another CAD package - originally named PseudoStation. After Intergraph purchased 50% of Bentley Systems (in 1987) - the original IDGS file format was renamed to DNG.
AutoCAD version 2.1 with first 3D capabilities and also the first version of AutoSketch were released. 1986 American Small Business Company released DesignCAD T&W Systems changed its name to Versacad Corporation MCS introduced ANVIL-5000, a 3-D mechanical CADD/CAM/CAE system that, for over a decade, was the most powerful, fully integrated CADD/CAM/CAE software available, running on all grades of engineering computers. ArchiCAD 2.0 for Apple was released. Autodesk released AutoCAD version 2.5 1987 ISICAD purchased CADVANCE and later developed it into the first Windows based CAD application on the market. ArchiCAD 3.0 for Apple was released Intergraph purchased 50% of Bentley Systems Prime purchased Versacad AutoCAD R9 was released (only for DOS) - the first version of AutoCAD to require an 80x87 maths processor in computers based on Intel 8086 processors.
The release of AutoCAD R9 was a little surprise. When Autodesk was asked what happened with versions 3 - 8, Autodesk reputedly replied, that there were really 8 major previous versions. Even if 3-8 versions nobody had ever seen, to call a new version as 3.0 seemed not to be a good idea, and so AutoCAD R9 was released 1988 CATIA Version 3 was released and became the automotive application leader. This version was announced with AEC functionality. Surfware Inc., shipped the first version of SurfCAM, a CAD/CAM program.
PTC shipped the first version of Pro/ENGINEER. Concept of parametric modeling is quickly followed by other products, such as SolidEdge, SolidWorks, Unigraphics. MDM&E/Unigraphics was threatened by Pro/ENGINEER and was forced to react more quickly, and so, the Unigraphics acquired Shape Data (developer of solid modeller Romulus), quickly retired the PADL-2 based UniSolids and in late 1989 introduced solid-modeling CAD software program named UG/Solids based on Parasolid. Autodesk released AutoSolid and AutoCAD R10 (DOS & MAC), with full 3D capabilities 1989 Spatial Technology developed the first version of ACIS solid modeling kernel. Ron Davidson launched Parasolid as a 'de-facto standard' solid modeling kernel. The solid modeling kernel Designbase (released in 1987 by Ricoh) was quickly adopted by many Japanese CAD software vendors and Ricoh began to sell Designbase in the US. And.started the war of the 'solid modelling kernels' between ACIS, DesignBase and Parasolid which was to continue throughout the following decade.
Graphisoft started to sell and support ArchiCAD products in the US and Canada. IBM acquired CADAM Inc.
From Lockheed Autodesk acquired Generic Software and integrated Generic CADD product line into the Autodesk products The first version of the KOMPAS-Graphic system was released. CSC company shipped MicroCADAM, a CAD/CAM program which became the best selling CAD product in Japan.