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I lost some important palettes...

Hello All, I seem to have lost the coordinate box, control box and the prompt box. I have gone the typical things that I thought would work, i.e. Options>Customize>Palette Shapes. These all have the "show" boxes checked. Since I work on 2 monitors, I...

rgarand by Booster
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See Epson Stylus RIP from Windows XP?

Into our completely mac-based office, a new guy (civil engineer) has moved. He uses a Dell can with Windows XP Pro. Now I've set up our network so almost everything works for him as it does for us others. He can access our OSX10.2.3 file server (OSX ...

Help from beta tester

Hi, I had created a layout book with a PM 3.1 beta version. I'm now unable to open this file in PM3.1, because "it was created with an early beta version". I could open it with PM3.1 beta 21, but it won't help because I can't read it in PM3.1 final I...

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Is anyone using Epson large format printers?

I asked this once before and it seemed that no one had much experience with them at the time. I am quite interested again because the lease is up on our HP 1050C and we are looking for a replacement. I am getting mixed feelings (and reading mixed rep...

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Glass problems

I'm trying to get my material "glass" to show up as both transparent (in the model) and solid (on the elevations and sections) by using "3d window Settings_Transparency in Shading: on/off." This worked in v.7 but not in 8.1. In 8.1, I cannot get the ...

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G5 Memory Recommendations

Aside from the obvious and expensive choice (i.e. cram it full with 8GB), how much RAM is adequate in a G5 duallie? I have been running 1GB in my PowerBook with no problems but then a 1GZ G4 doesn't chew though nearly the amount of data those power h...

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Teamwork at AC 8.1

I notice a new .lck and a !!!Illegal Path!!! files, what for? I had a problem signing in and I will have to erase the .adm to get access as .pln. Are those new files something that i can use to avoid this tedious way?

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Interactive Schedule

I'm having problems setting up a schedule with this criteria. Basically I'm wanting the schedule to only select certain objects and list the following. 1. Objectname (only certain objects not everyone that is in the drawing) 2. Layer of that object 3...

Red by Enthusiast
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Mac OS X 10.3 Server Software Questions

We just recently purchased OS 10.3 Server software. I am the network administrator in the small company that I work for. I have to install it and get it all setup. I have been trying to read the literature that came with it to find out which services...

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