Draw 2000 Rev 2.62

July 1991


Several new features were added to the Draw 2000 program after the
manual addendum was produced.  These features are listed here.

   *  You can now PLOT to your printer from the Project/Plot menu.
      The Project/Save As/Plot command detailed in the manual
      addendum will still work as described, but you can also choose
      a serial or parallel "plot" driver from the Plot/Pick Plotter
      menu, then plot directly to that device with the Plot/Plot
      command.

   *  Your current selections of Line Weight, Line Pattern and Fill
      Pattern are now marked with a checkmark, making it easy to see
      which option is active.

More Solutions...

WHEN I HAVE UNITS/FRACTIONAL SELECTED, I GET THE MESSAGE "INVALID
ENTRY" WHEN I TRY TO RESET THE GRID SPACING TO .25 INCHES.

      When you change the UNITS setting, every entry requester in
      the program is geared to receive that type of data -- so if
      you want quarter-inch spacing on the grid while you have
      UNITS/FRACTIONAL selected as your unit type, the entry for a
      quarter inch spacing would be 1/4 instead of 0.25.

I WANT TO USE A PLOTTER DRIVER FROM DRAW PLUS THAT WORKS WITH MY
PARTICULAR PLOTTER, BUT IT ISN'T IN THE PLOTTER DRAWER ANYMORE.  CAN
I JUST COPY THE OLD DRIVER FROM MY DRAW PLUS DISK?

      Older plotter drivers that were designed to work with Draw
      2000 Version 1 and earlier Draw programs will not work as-is
      with the Draw 2000 Version 2.62 program.  If you have a driver
      that worked for your plotter with an earlier version, you can
      easily "convert" it to work with the new program.  These
      drivers are simple ASCII text files that can be edited with
      any text editor.

      All Draw plotter driver files contain a "magic number" in the
      first line.  You can copy this number from one of the plotter
      files on the Version 2.62 data disk.  Older plotter files have
      a second line that begins with a number.  This might be 1000
      ... or 600 ....  The new plotter drivers have two to three
      lines of additional information in between this line and the
      first line with the "magic number" in it. You should copy this
      information from a similar plotter driver from the new version
      into your old plotter driver file, then name it according to
      the type of connection it has, whether serial or parallel.

      For example, say you had a Roland DXY 1500 plotter, and you
      had acquired a driver written to work with the Draw 1.4
      program.  To alter this driver to work with the new version,
      you would load your custom driver file:

           42586
           500.0 22.3 17.2 .015
           1 6
           "IN;IP -11640, -8640, 10720, 8640;PA ..."
           " "
           "PU;PA "  ","  ";"
           "PD;PA "  ","  ";"
           "SP "  ";"
           "LT;"
           "LT 3,3;"
              .
              .
              .

      The first line contains the magic number for this version,
      42586.  Let's say your Roland plotter is connected to the
      serial port.  You would then load the most similar plotter
      file for the serial port from the Version 2.62 data disk, the
      SER.RolandDXY2000 driver:

           31091
           "SER:"
           "NO"
           1000.0 22.3 17.2 .015
           1 8
           "IN;IP -11640, -8640, 10720, ..."
           " "
           "PU;PA "  ","  ";"
           "PD;PA "  ","  ";"
           "PU;SP "  ";"
           "LT;"
           "LT 3,3;"
              .
              .
              .

      Then you would replace the line with the old magic number in
      your old driver with the first three lines of the new Roland
      driver, and save the edited file under a new name:

           31091
           "SER:"
           "NO"
           500.0 22.3 17.2 .015
           1 6
           "IN;IP -11640, -8640, 10720, 8640;PA ..."
           " "
           "PU;PA "  ","  ";"
           "PD;PA "  ","  ";"
           "SP "  ";"
           "LT;"
           "LT 3,3;"
              .
              .
              .

      If you feel uncomfortable with this process, simply send your
      old driver on a disk to Oxxi, and we'll do the editing and
      return it to you.