CADKEY 7.0 
README File
April 1994

This CADKEY README file contains information about CADKEY 7 that 
became available after the manuals went to press. 

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The CADKEY CADL Manual is stored in the \CDL directory as CADL.TXT.


The CADKEY LISP Manual is stored in the \LSP directory as LISP.TXT.


Running Analysis 6 with CADKEY 7

To run Analysis version 6 with CADKEY 7 use the following steps.
   1. Install CADKEY Analysis 6.0 into CADKEY 7.0.
   2. Copy the following three files from the \home directory of CADKEY7 
      to the \CADKEY7\ENGLISH directory.         
	cka_pmpt.txt
	cka_err.txt
	cka_menu.txt

   3. Follow the configuration and setup chapters in the CADKEY Analysis 
      6.0 manual.

	Although CADKEY Analysis 6.0 works within CADKEY 7.0, there is 
	much to be gained with CADKEY Analysis 7.0
	
	The entire interface is now one FAST CDE
	Enhancements requested by users
	New boundary condition types have been added
	Normal and Tangent conditions
	Spring conditions
	Distributed Thermal Source
	Radiation condition
	Several distribution functions (linear, cosine, etc.) have been 
	added to facilitate varing conditions.

	All new post-processor now allows:
		Viewing of strain information
		Detailing, Printing, and Plotting directly from Analysis
		Legend range modification
		Use of Display list options such as Birds and Worms eye 
		viewing of results.

		
KNOWN ERRORS AT TIME OF RELEASE:

When projecting and joining a full circle into a full ellipse the
join line between the two entities will not always be the end of 
each entity.

Chained Offset
The distance between consective entities in the selected chain should
be less than or equal to .00001.

MAJOR  FIXES FOR CADKEY 6.04 INCLUDED IN CADKEY 7:

Metaware 3.03+/Pharlap 6.1+: the system-related page fault errors 
encountered with previous version of compiler and linker have 
been corrected.


SPEED ENHANCEMENTS

To increase the speed at which CADKEY loads part, pattern, 
plot, or CADL files type (at the system prompt): 
set CADKEY_BUFFER=n where n equals the amount of kilobytes 
to use. The CADKEY default value is 50.


CONFIGURATION

PROPER CONFIGURATION TO AVOID POTENTIAL PROBLEMS

Make sure you have enough free disk space and memory to run CADKEY; see 
"System Requirements" in "Getting Started" for more information.

If you have a problem, and are forced to reboot your computer, use the
following steps to resolve the problem:

1. Go to the operating system prompt for the drive on which you 
   installed CADKEY and delete the swap files. Swap files are eight 
   character filenames consisting of mixed characters with no file
   extensions.

2. Go to the directory to which the database writes and delete the
   database files. Database files usually have .dba file extensions.

3. Go to the scratch file subdirectory and delete the copious data files.
   You can identify copious data files because they begin with either "NA" 
   or "CA" and have no file extensions.

4. Run the DOS program CHKDSK /F to ensure harddisk integrety has not been
   effected by rebooting the system.

DRAWING LAYOUT MODE COMMENTS
AND TIPS

When loading, copying, or modifying a layout after naming
and describing the layout, define the paper size
BEFORE defining the actual scale. When you set the paper size
CADKEY assigns the suggested actual scale according to the
model size and paper size. This might change the actual scale
that you selected. To get the actual scale you want,
set it AFTER setting the paper size.

When you extend instance geometry using TRM/EXT and then 
select the newly extended portion of the entity to trim, 
unexpected results are possible. If you have problems 
trimming an instance-specific entity in Drawing Layout Mode 
after extending it, go back and check the original model in
Model Mode.

When cross-hatching an instance with hidden geometry,
(for example, transformed geometry, such as joined lines,
not in the viewing plane), make that instance active, and
then use instances in other views to make entity selection
easier.

When you select an instance, all the entities in the instance 
may not appear highlighted, they are, however, selected. 
To make CADKEY highlight all the entities in the instance,
change the "maximum number of entities to display while
rotating a part" to higher than the default of 40. For more
information on this setting, see "Set graphics options" in the
"Configuration" chapter of the CADKEY Getting Started Manual.

When you relocate an instance with entities that you modelized, 
the modelized entities disappear during relocation and 
appear only when you redraw or autoscale the drawing.

If you modelize a single entity, use UNBLANK 
to unblank a masked copy of the entity. Then relocate that
instance and delete the modelized entities that you left behind.

Note: This doesn't work when you modelize by INSTANCE or LAYOUT.

CADKEY includes several predesigned border pattern files. Place 
the borders before placing instances. This is especially true 
before modelizing instances.

Examples:

United States standard  International

LAYA                    LAYA0
LAYB                    LAYA1
LAYC                    LAYA2
LAYD                    LAYA3
LAYE                    LAYA4


CADKEY DRAWING LAYOUT MODE SAMPLE CDEs

The following Drawing Layout Mode sample CDEs are available in
your CDE subdirectory:

HORIZON_LINES

Horizon_lines lets you easily create horizon lines and/or center lines
in either Drawing Layout or Model Mode. If you are in Drawing
Layout Mode when you execute this CDE, CADKEY prompts you to
select the instance in which you want to create horizon lines and/or
center lines. Next, CADKEY prompts you to select two arcs or
circles and then generates the horizon lines and/or center lines.
To exit the program, press [Esc] or [F10].

TRANSFORMING ENTITIES

If you choose XFORM, MIRROR for circles, arcs, conics, splines,
or any view-dependent entity, and then choose to group or subgroup
them, CADKEY does not group the listed entities.


DIALOG BOXES

TABLES

The [vals] array must have a size of 10, regardless of the actual
number of values used.

Tables cannot have titles.


ICONS

The .cdi file containing the icon geometry must be in the support
directory.

dg_add_icon filename should not include the .cdi extension.


TRANSLATING DIALOG BOX TEXT FIELDS

To translate the text contained in dialog boxes, follow these steps:

1. Enter CADKEY and write down the function key sequence that you press 
   to reach the dialog box that you want to translate. For example, to reach 
   the DETAIL, SET dialog box you press [F3] (DETAIL) and then [F9] (SET).

2. Exit CADKEY and when you return to the system prompt, set the following 
   environment variable by typing:

	set DGREADFL=1 

   and press RETURN.

3. Start CADKEY from the system prompt, but redirect the program's 
   output to a temporary file by typing:

	cadkey > temp.dlg 
	
   and press RETURN.

   CADKEY stores the temp.dlg file in CADKEY's root directory.

4. Press the function key sequence you recorded in step 1. 

   CADKEY displays the appropriate dialog box.

5. Exit CADKEY.

6. Use your text editor to make any changes to the temp.dlg file.

   Make sure the file always ends with the following three lines:

   ===========================================================
   =============     ENDING   DLG FILE OUTPUT   ==============
   ===========================================================
   
7. Save the file and rename it according to the filename associated 
   with the related dialog box. You must use the names shown in the 
   following list: 

	FILENAME                FUNCTION

	setmask.dlg             Masking dialog box.
	mcrlstex.dlg            Macro LST/EXE dialog box. 
	setplot.dlg             PLOT set-up dialog box.
	setprint.dlg            PRINT set-up dialog box.
	chngattr.dlg            ATTRIB change dialog box.
	setattr.dlg             ATTRIB set dialog box.
	applic.dlg              APPLIC dialog box.
	viewlist.dlg            VIEW list dialog box.
	lvllist.dlg             LEVEL name list dialog box.
	setdims.dlg             DETAIL set dialog box.
	xhatch.dlg              X-HATCH dialog box.
	layout1.dlg             NEW layout dialog box.
	layout1.dlg             MODIFY layout dialog box.
	layout2.dlg             LOAD layout dialog box.
	layout2.dlg             DELETE layout dialog box.
	layout2.dlg             COPY layout dialog box.
	layout3.dlg             LAYOUT confirmation dialog box.
	filelist.dlg            Standard file list dialog box.
	dirslist.dlg            DIRECTORY dialog box.
	message.dlg             Standard file list error dialog box.
	hypertext.dlg           HELP dialog box.


8. Before running CADKEY clear the environment variable you set in step
   2 by typing:

	set DGREADFL= 

   and press RETURN.

9. Start CADKEY. To verify that CADKEY is now using your modified .dlg file, 
   press the function key sequence to display the appropriate dialog box.
  

CADKEY Reference Manual:

In the Tutorial and in regular Drawing Layout Mode, CADKEY does NOT ask 
if you want to return to Model Mode from Drawing Layout Mode; you return 
automatically.

Late modifications to the software have created inconsistancies with the 
documentation in the following instances:

Edit Menu
The option Edit,DimText has been renamed PRE/SUFF in the Detail,Change,DimRep
menu. The documentation discusses the function in the Edit Chapter.

Control,Atribute Menu
The functios LDRATT and WITATT have been moved under the Detail,Change,DimRep
menu. The documentation discusses these functions in the Control Chapter.




MULTIPLE VIEWPORTS

When loading a CADKEY 5 part file depicting multiple viewports:

- CADKEY retains all the viewports if you were in Model Mode the last 
  time you saved the part file.

- CADKEY displays only one viewport if you were in Drawing Layout Mode the 
  last time you save the part file.
  
When loading a CADKEY 6 part file depicting multiple viewports:

-CADKEY displays only one viewport regardless of whether you last saved 
 in Drawing Layout Mode or Model Mode.


DXF / DWG

Ordinate dimensions may be affected when sent out through DWG\DXF and then 
brought back into CADKEY.

Witness lines will be displaced one half the height of the dimension text. 
Correct this by using DETAIL, DIM, ORD, MODIFY, ALIGN.

You can change the default font name, CKSTANDARD. To change this font name, 
key the name that you want, colon, and the AutoCAD font name, for example 
MYSTYLE:ROMANC. 


KNOWN ERRORS AT TIME OF RELEASE

DIM type #128 and higher are not imported into CADKEY when using DXF import. 
No current work around as DXF will import correctly through DWG import.

LTYPE key word must be all uppercase in DXF format, or else you'll get a 
File Open Error. To work around, change a lowercase line type to uppercase 
in DXF file.

Any DIM imported as a generic DIM will remain a generic DIM when exported 
back to DXF/DWG and therefore cannot be treated in ACAD as dimension.

DXF files that have blank lines in the file header may not translate into 
CADKEY. If you have a DXF file that will not translate into CADKEY, 
use a text editor to edit the header of the file.

Delete the blank line
Delete string varible
Delete the tokens for defining string variable and blank line

For example:
If $DIMBLK1 has no value, then delete the token that preceeds $DIMBLK1 and
the following blank line. 



