I dont use MDT5 anymore

[Anonymous]

Lately we bought an update from MDT2 to MDT5. Al I have is problems. Al
my problems are in the drawing mode (layout). I can't get a normale
drawing to be printed. And I see that I a'm not the only one. Setting up
the standards in Mechanical Options is to complicated.

Now I got back to MDT2. Because I can there make a normale drawing. My
question, "A'm I the only one???????"

regards, Martien from Holland

[Anonymous]

Martien,

MDT5 is way, way better than MDT2.

If your dims etc. don't look right... Try the "part options" command under
the "part" menu. Set the base dimension style to what you were using in
MDT2. Use amrefdim (2nd button over on the dim toolbar flyout)- - it works
more like MDT2.

If it looks right on the screen and doesn't print correctly, it is probably
because A2Ki/MDT5 plotting is vastly different. You'll have to set up ctb
(plot style table) & pc3 (plotter configuration) files and possibly use
page setups. I have found that getting plots to look right on a single
printer/PC combination is fairly simple(if not straightforward.) Getting
several networked machines to use the same pc3 files is another matter.
Pc3's are highly sensitive to OS and printer driver version.

There is quite a bit of information in the help system and on Adesk's web
site.

--
Mark Case, P.E.
Sr. Mechanical Engineer
CaseCAD Engineering
(509) 773-6247
web: w3.gorge.net/casecad
"Martien de Witte" wrote in message
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> Lately we bought an update from MDT2 to MDT5. Al I have is problems. Al
> my problems are in the drawing mode (layout). I can't get a normale
> drawing to be printed. And I see that I a'm not the only one. Setting up
> the standards in Mechanical Options is to complicated.
>
> Now I got back to MDT2. Because I can there make a normale drawing. My
> question, "A'm I the only one???????"
>
> regards, Martien from Holland

[Anonymous]

Thanks for your respond.
I have seen that is much better than MDT2. And I will try your
suggestion tomorrow a work. At this time I a'm really depressed of
setting up MDT5. My biggest problem is that I didn't really work
according to the ISO standards. If I had done that, it wouldn't have
given me all this problems.

I must say that I now quite understand the principles of the printing
part. And I think that that is solved.

Thanks again, Martien

Mark Case schreef:
>
> Martien,
>
> MDT5 is way, way better than MDT2.
>
> If your dims etc. don't look right... Try the "part options" command under
> the "part" menu. Set the base dimension style to what you were using in
> MDT2. Use amrefdim (2nd button over on the dim toolbar flyout)- - it works
> more like MDT2.
>
> If it looks right on the screen and doesn't print correctly, it is probably
> because A2Ki/MDT5 plotting is vastly different. You'll have to set up ctb
> (plot style table) & pc3 (plotter configuration) files and possibly use
> page setups. I have found that getting plots to look right on a single
> printer/PC combination is fairly simple(if not straightforward.) Getting
> several networked machines to use the same pc3 files is another matter.
> Pc3's are highly sensitive to OS and printer driver version.
>
> There is quite a bit of information in the help system and on Adesk's web
> site.
>
> --
> Mark Case, P.E.
> Sr. Mechanical Engineer
> CaseCAD Engineering
> (509) 773-6247
> web: w3.gorge.net/casecad
> "Martien de Witte" wrote in message
> news:3A649146.C6322957@mail.ru...
> > Lately we bought an update from MDT2 to MDT5. Al I have is problems. Al
> > my problems are in the drawing mode (layout). I can't get a normale
> > drawing to be printed. And I see that I a'm not the only one. Setting up
> > the standards in Mechanical Options is to complicated.
> >
> > Now I got back to MDT2. Because I can there make a normale drawing. My
> > question, "A'm I the only one???????"
> >
> > regards, Martien from Holland

[Anonymous]

Be aware that all drawings created in MDT 2 MUST be migrated through MDT 3 before going to MDT 5.

[Anonymous]

What happens if they are not?

Mike Godber

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Be
aware that all drawings created in MDT 2 MUST be migrated through MDT 3 before
going to MDT 5.