Events
The IMESA conference and exhibition is in full swing at the ATKV Centre in
Mossel Bay. The event runs from Tuesday 26 October till Friday 29 October 2004
and showcases all your favourite products at stands 10 and 11.
Come for some drinks and meet the team, Vincent Bester, Reece Hanning, Paul
Steenkamp and Charles Scott as they share the latest news on both AllyCAD and
Civil Designer with you.
We look forward to meeting you there!
New Product Offering -
Knowledge Base Recruitment
If you’re looking for the best possible candidate with the right skills and
technical abilities for the job, then look no further than the Knowledge Base
Recruitment Centre. We specialise in the sourcing of top quality candidates
for the Civil Engineering and CAD Design industries and offer you a
personalized service built on complete trust, confidentiality and good faith.
For more information, please contact our Recruitment Specialist Yvonne Beebee
at recruitment@knowbase.co.za, or telephone (021) 7011850.
PRODUCT INFORMATION - version 3.4
Support - GIF & TIFF files
We have added support for the processing of GIF and compressed TIFF files from
Civil Designer 6.3 Build 12 and AllyCAD 3.4 Build 12. This service was
previously discontinued due to patent considerations, which has since expired,
allowing us to reintroduce this support to our valued clients.
Creating a
New Menu
You may now customize your AllyCAD interface by creating a new menu. This
useful option will allow you to access your own personalized menu for even
greater ease of use.
The default AllyCAD menu is found in the CAD.MEN file, which resides in your
USER HOME directory. You may look at, print out or even edit the CAD.MEN file
in any text editor such as Windows Notepad or the DOS Edit package.
While you can customize the existing CAD.MEN file, you may also create
completely separate menu files. These should have exactly the same format as
CAD.MEN and be saved as files with .MEN extensions. It is however advised
that you make a backup copy of CAD.MEN before you proceed with any changes.
The easiest method of creating a new menu file is to make a copy of the
default menu file, CAD.MEN. Give the copy a new name and then proceed by
incorporating your preferred functions.
PROCEDURE
Note:
Please refer to the standard CAD.MEN file when reading the following sections
in order to understand the concepts presented.
The menu starts at the line MAINMENU. Do not change this line. Following this
is a BEGIN and the menu definition which is continued to the final END marker.
In between the BEGIN and END markers are the actual menu definitions. The
entries you can use are POPUP (which has an associated BEGIN and END) and
MENUITEM.
The POPUP entry denotes a submenu, which must be completely contained between
BEGIN and END markers. After POPUP you place in quotes the text you wish to be
displayed on the menu (i.e. POPUP "&File"). Note that the ampersand (&) will
be converted to an underline character when displayed and will underline the
character that follows it in the line. In order to display an actual ampersand
you must use two ampersands in a row. The line after POPUP will be BEGIN
followed by MENUITEM lines followed by END to mark the end of the pop-up menu.
MENUITEM is followed by the display text in quotes, the function to be
executed (in curly brackets {} and ending with a semi-colon ;) when this menu
item is clicked, and the help text to be displayed when this item is selected
(also in curly brackets and ending with a semi-colon). (i.e. MENUITEM "Click
&Me" {function;} {Help text;}). The names of the functions that you may assign
to menu items can be found in the CAD help file. The above comments on
ampersands also apply here.
There is a special entry, which is MENUITEM SEPARATOR. This will draw a
horizontal line across the menu at the position it is entered. This helps you
to subdivide menus into logical areas.
You may now load your new menu by selecting File | Load | Load Menu. This will
display the standard Windows file open dialog. The file list contains the
default AllyCAD menu file, CAD.MEN, and any other .MEN files that you may have
created or installed.
Once you have selected the menu to load, it will replace the currently active
menu. Loading a new menu will not affect any drawing that you may have loaded.
TRAINING AND VISITS
TRAINING
If you are interested in training, please
contact your regional office to make your booking as the courses are
extremely popular.
