Control Room Window Framing - Need Advice. John, anyone?

Hello hello hello, frederic, where you been?
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Oh, doing a lot of stuff I really don't have time to do. I'm sure you know how that goes.

This weekend its brakes on both cars, fix two window sills, replace three windows, clean gutters, and replace a wall pipe that leads to the sewer pipe, from the kitchen sink.

Busy busy :)

I recommended the marshmallow thing because it was advice my father gave me when I was younger, always getting into trouble because of my mouth. :)

He said... "When you feel the urge to open your mouth in opposition, shove in a marshmallow first. When done eating the marshmallow, then speak". I presume the idea was to think before I spoke, or maybe my father had a marshmallow fetish. Who knows LOL. This thread just reminded me of that which is why I posted it. I thought you'd get a good chuckle out of it.
 
Hi DD, I'm using 14 also. I love it. Old but works for me. This is how I did it yesterday and it was a pain in the.... After I finished the drawing I went to file, export and when the screen for export came up it says file by type, pick .bmt ?(bitmap)., then window the portion of the drawing you want to export,then save, then closed autocad. Then I had to pullup my email promp, email the file to my wifes computer, when she clicks on it, it opens in paint. She does a save as(.gif), uploads it to her ebay pic server,and emails the URL to me. I post it here. How dumb. PITA PITA PITA!! Can't wait for my new computer. My sister in law built me a P4 with all the stuff to do this myself, but won't give it to me till I finish my wifes kitchen(ha, shes my wifes sister, and a network specialist!)Leverage. I just finished the sections for my cabinetry and drew your wall in the same drawing to save time. Anyway, I'll try and open in paint myself now, just haven't had the time. How's the frameing coming? I envy you, wish I was framing mine:D Good luck with it. Let me know if theres anything I can do. OH, by the way, I have a drawing I could email you, that has all the autocad configuration stuff on it, that way you can save it as a prototype, and start all your drawings with it. Has all the dimension styles, lisp files etc. That is if you don't already. Do you use paper space yet. To good. What do you use cad for, work? Are you a draftsman? I see Michael is an engineer, and uses 3D. My computer won't handle it. Crap. Oh well.
And frederic, sounds like me, tooooo much crap stuff to do, no time for music:rolleyes: Gettin ready for winter. Well, at least once it starts rainin, I can sit in my little ole studio and mess around. But, time to work on a car.... AGGGGGRRRRRRRRRRRR!!. They should make the engine designers work on em in the car for two weeks before they put em on the market. That will teach em!:D Good thing studios arn't designed the same way. Nothin would get done. You couldn't get through the door!
fitz:)
 
WOW! Rick, that is conveluted!

Acad 2000 and 2002 have a choice in the plot routine to "Publish to web". It's basically another plotter that you set up and it converts it to jpeg.

Does R14 not have that feature? I can't remember, it's been too long since I used R14.
There's got to be an easier way in R14.

Can you "save as" a .dwf, and open that in paint?
 
Rick - I'm an electronic technician working for Uncle Sam. I work on lasers, electro-optics, fiber optics and some pretty complicated electronic stuff. Sounds more interesting than it really is. I've been doing this for 20 years or so. When (if) I ever get this studio completed I plan on building my own custom channel strips. I've been compiling info on this for about the past 6 months. Smoke dreams really but I think it would be interesting.

And yes, I'd like to see the CAD you did. I've seen "paper space" in Autocad but don't really know what it is. I have an electronic test system at work with a 21" monitor. Man I love all that real estate. Then I come home to my little 17". Bummer.

Power was connected today. These guys were fast. In 3 hours they replaced the transformer pole, the transformer itself, and all the overhead wiring going to my house and to the studio. I told them I would really like a new transformer (that it would be better for my studio) and they said sure. They ran seperate wires from the transformer to the house and studio instead of splicing at the intermediate telephone pole. All this for a $10 connection fee.

Finished up the vocal booth wall with window today. Hate to say it but I had to compromise on the window frame. It shares the same stud on each side of the frame as the outside wall. I know this will cause some sound transmission through the frame but I have some ideas in dealing with that. I'll try to post a picture tomorrow. I'll probably pick up the insulation tomorrow for the exterior walls.

My son's band wants to start practicing in there next week. It'll be loud and fluttering like bats out of hell but it beats the kitchen.

Damn this got long. Sooorrrrryyyy!

DD
 
Damn this got long. Sooorrrrryyyy!
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Long? Not by my standards:D I'll read anything you have to say DD. And BTW, John Sayer called my posts a "book" and verbose. So, don't even think about yours being long. Ha! I worked for Sam along time ago on f-106 electronics Still would be there if music hadn't entered the picture.
So your going to build channel strips. You mean a console, or mixer? Cool! Keep us up to date.
And about paper space, If you open a viewport in paper space, you can see model space through it,(its like cutting a hole in a piece of paper and look through it) and set the scale of the port,and position any object in model space in the port. That way you can position many ports on a drawing(you draw the border in model space and pull it into paperspace) on the border layout. with each viewport at what ever scale you want. Then you can move the viewports around the border the way you want, and then plot it(print it) Works tooooo good. Anyway DD, good luck with your building, and keep us posted. Also I started to post a reply to you cable chase post, and was going to attatch a pic of my console legs, which I designed and built to die into chases in a floating floor but didn't have time today. Give me a holler if your interested. It really wouldn't help you though, as my design requires custom built steel legs and brackets. as theres no feet on the legs. They just die into the floor. Looks cool though. All the cables run up through the legs, into the console, which I also custom built. Another story, another day. Its on cad though if your interested. I'll have to find the disc, as that was 8 yrs ago when I designed it. It works wonderful. Still use it. Has all kinds of custom things in it, real flexible. Its a welded steel frame. Anyway, talk to you later. Now, see, yours isn't long at all:D
fitz
 
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