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Setup 23xxx tablet with AutoCAD 13 in
Windows 3.x
A. Change Digitizer in AutoCAD to "System Pointing Device"
1. Enter Windows
2. Enter AutoCAD for Windows
3. Type CONFIG at the Command Line to Configure AutoCAD
4. Select "Configure Digitizer"
5. Do you want to select a different one? [Y]
6. Select "Current System Pointing Device"
7. Select option "0" and EXIT with changes
saved.
8. Exit AutoCAD for Windows and EXIT Windows.
B. Set Tablet Menu Settings to "AutoCAD as GTCO DP5" from the DrawingBoard User's Guide:
1. It is necessary to have a menu strip on the tablet
in order change the configuration
settings. Some of the early
2300 Digitizers were made
with a fixed setting and do not have a menu strip. These
models REQUIRE that you
use those fixed settings in
AutoCAD, (e.g. Summagraphics MM1201 setting).
2. If your model has a menu strip, here are the menu settings required to enable your
digitizer to work with
AutoCAD 12 for Windows 3.x.
MODE PARITY BAUD
RATE FORMAT
01000 1100
001 10000
DATA RATE RESOLUTION
FREQ
111
110 1
(1 = Power Light is ON 0
= Power Light is OFF)
3. To change the menu settings:
a. Place the cursor on
"Setup" box,
b. Pick the "0"
button & the Power Light will come on.
c. Power Light ON
or OFF will indicate whether each switch
is ON or OFF. The Pick 0 button will toggle the
light to
the setting you wish.
d. When finished, EXIT by
hitting the "Setup" box again.
C. Configure AutoCAD for the CalComp Driver
1. Start up Windows
2. Enter AutoCAD for Windows
3. Type CONFIG at the Command Line to Configure AutoCAD
4. Select "Configure Digitizer"
5. Do you want to select a different one? [Y]
6. Select "Wintab Compatible Digitizer-ADI 4.2 by
Autodesk Inc."
7. Type "0" to Exit to the drawing editor.
8. Keep configuration changes. [Y]
9. Select "Preferences" under the
"Options" menu.
10. Select "Digitizer/Mouse" under the Digitizer Input section.
11. Select [OK]
D. Configuring the AutoCAD Template (ACAD.MNU only)
1. Type "TABLET" [ENTER] at the command line.
2. Type "CFG" [ENTER]
3. Enter the number of menu areas.
4. Select "4" [ENTER]
5. AutoCAD will now ask you to select the, Upper Left, Lower Left, and Lower Right corners
of Menu Area 1 located
at the top of your AutoCAD
template.
6. Enter the number of columns for menu area 1:
7. Type "25" [Enter]
8. Enter the number of rows for menu area 1:
9. Type "9" [Enter]
10. Repeat steps 5-10 for menu areas 2, 3 and 4 using the columns and rows from the following
table:
a. MENU AREA
COLUMNS ROWS
1
25 9
2
11 9
3
9 13
4
25 7
11. Do you want to respecify the Fixed Screen Pointing Area?
[Y]
a. "Digitize lower left
corner of Fixed Screen Pointing Area."
(Defining the lower left corner of the active mole area.
Select the lower left hand corner of the
active screen
pointing area located on the template.)
B. "Digitize upper right
corner of Fixed Screen Pointing Area."
(Defining the upper right corner of the active mole
area.
Select the upper right hand corner of the
active screen
pointing area located on the template.)
12. Do you want to specify the Floating Screen pointing Area?
[N]
13. The tablet is now configured for the AutoCAD template.
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