PAVESTONE HATCH PATTERNS

FOR AutoCAD 2008 & 2009, AutoCad LT

Users Manual

PAVESTONE HATCH PATTERNS USERS MANUAL This manual describes how to install the Pavestone Paver Hatch Patterns for AutoCAD version 2008 & 2009 and AutoCAD LT.

Contents

I II III IV Introduction Installation for AutoCAD 2008 & 2009 Windows x Using Hatch Patterns Installing Hatch Patterns for AutoCAD LT
NOTE: IF YOU HAVE NEVER CHANGED YOUR ACAD.PAT FILE AND NEVER INSTALLED A THIRD PARTY PROGRAM WHICH MAY HAVE ADDED ADDITIONAL HATCH PATTERNS TO YOUR ACAD.PAT FILE, YOU MAY SIMPLY COPY THE ACAD.PAT AND ACADISO.PAT FILES FROM THE INSTALLATION DISC TO C:\DOCUMENT AND SETTINGS\*XXXXXXXX\APPLICATION DATA\AUTODESK\AUTOCAD 2008\R17.1\ENU\SUPPORT. * XXXXXXX IN THE FOLDER PATH REPRESENTS THE WINDOWS USER NAME OF THE COMPUTER YOU ARE INSTALLING THE HATCH PATTERNS ON. SO IF THE WINDOWS USER NAME IS STATION 1, THE PATH WOULD BE: C:\DOCUMENT AND SETTINGS\STATION 1\APPLICATION DATA\AUTODESK\AUTOCAD 2008 (or 2009)\R17.1\ENU\SUPPORT. BEFORE DOING THIS, RENAME YOUR EXISTING ACAD.PAT FILE IN THE SUPPORT FOLDER TO ACADOLD.PAT AND THE EXISTING ACADISO.PAT FILE TO ACADISOOLD.PAT.

Introduction

Included on the CD you will find files necessary to install PAVESTONE PAVER HATCH PATTERNS for AutoCAD V. 2008 & 2009 and AutoCAD LT in the Windows x operating system. Although this version of PAVESTONE PAVER HATCH PATTERNS is for AutoCAD 2008 and 2009, it should work with all previous versions of AutoCAD. The only difference is you must determine where the Acad.pat and Acadiso.pat files are stored and read by AutoCAD. AutoCAD versions 14, 2000 and 2002 store the Acad.pat and Acadiso.pat in the directory C:\Program Files\AutoCAD 2002 (or 2000, 14, etc.)\Support. AutoCAD 2004 and later stores the Acad.pat and Acadiso.pat in the folder
C:\DOCUMENT AND SETTINGS\Windows User Name\APPLICATION DATA\AUTODESK\AUTOCAD 2008\R17.1\ENU\SUPPORT
II. Installation for AutoCAD 2008 & 2009 Windows x.
Installation Overview Note: acad.pat and acadiso.pat can be found in the folder C:\DOCUMENT AND SETTINGS\Windows User
Name\APPLICATION DATA\AUTODESK\AUTOCAD 2008(or 2009)\R17.1\ENU\SUPPORT Use the following instructions if you, or a third party program, have added hatch patterns to Acad.pat.
1. Make a copy of Acad.pat and Acadiso.pat which can be found in the folder C:\DOCUMENT AND SETTINGS\Windows User Name\APPLICATION DATA\AUTODESK\AUTOCAD 2008 (or 2009)\R17.1\ENU\SUPPORT If something goes wrong with this installation you can copy Acad.pat and Acadiso.pat back to this folder and overwrite the acad.pat and acadiso.pat which you changed as part of this installation.
2. There are three files in the root directory of the Hardcsapes USA CD; Pavestone2009.pat, Acad.pat and Acadiso.pat. Copy only Pavestone2009.pat to your AutoCAD support folder (i.e. C:\DOCUMENT AND SETTINGS\Windows User
Name\APPLICATION DATA\AUTODESK\AUTOCAD 2008 (or 2009)\R17.1\ENU\SUPPORT
3. Open PAVESTONE2009.pat in a text editor (i.e. Notepad). PAVESTONE2009.pat is a text file which contains the code for Hardcsapes USA hatch patterns. 4. Copy the entire text contents of PAVESTONE2009.pat to the clipboard) 5. Open Acad.pat that is in C:\DOCUMENT AND SETTINGS\Windows User Name\APPLICATION
DATA\AUTODESK\AUTOCAD 2008 (or 2009)\R17.1\ENU\SUPPORT
6. Paste the contents of PAVESTONE2009.pat into Acad.pat at the bottom of this text file. 7. Save Acad.pat and close the text editor. 8. Open Acadiso.pat which is in the same folder and paste the contents of the PAVESTONE2009.pat file at the bottom of this file. 9. Save Acadiso.pat and close the text editor. 8. Installation is complete
NOTE: IF YOU HAVE NEVER ADDED PATTERNS TO YOUR ACAD.PAT FILE AND NEVER INSTALLED A THIRD PARTY PROGRAM WHICH MAY HAVE ADDED ADDITIONAL HATCH PATTERNS TO YOUR ACAD.PAT FILE, YOU MAY SIMPLY COPY THE ACAD.PAT AND ACADISO.PAT FILE FROM THE INSTALLATION DISC TO C:\DOCUMENT AND SETTINGS\XXXXXXXX\APPLICATION DATA\AUTODESK\AUTOCAD 2008 (or 2009) \R17.1\ENU\SUPPORT. XXXXXXX IN THE FOLDER PATH REPRESENTS THE WINDOWS USER NAME OF THE COMPUTER YOU ARE INSTALLING THE HATCH PATTERNS ON. SO IF THE WINDOWS USER NAME IS STATION 1, THE PATH WOULD BE: C:\DOCUMENT AND SETTINGS\STATION 1\APPLICATION DATA\AUTODESK\AUTOCAD 2008 (or 2009)\R17.1\ENU\SUPPORT BEBEFORE DOING THIS, RENAME YOUR EXISTING ACAD.PAT FILE IN THE SUPPORT DIRECTORY TO ACADOLD.PAT AND YOUR EXISTING ACADISO.PAT FILE TO ACADISOOLD.PAT.

III. Using Pavestone Paver Hatch Patterns
AutoCad 1. Start AutoCAD. 2. Invoke the Bhatch command. 3. The Bhatch dialog box comes up. 4. In the Pattern selection box scroll until you see PAVESTONE HATCH. The Pavestone patterns follow and are in small caps. (Standard AutoCAD Patterns are in Large Caps). 5. Refer to the included sample sheets (in this manual) for pattern name abbreviations which show up in the Patterns selection box. 6. The hatch pattern scale factor for architectural units should be 1 and for decimal units.0833. Note: Some of the Pavestone Hatch Patterns are very complex. These patterns will take longer to generate and will greatly increase the size of your drawing file.
NOTE: PATTERN PREVIEW SWATCHES MAY NOT BE AVAILABLE IN THE BHATCH DIALOG BOX DUE TO THE COMPLEX NATURE OF THESE PATTERNS. REFER TO THE INCLUDED PRINT FOR PATTERN SAMPLE SWATCHES
Note: Use a hatch scale factor of 1 for architectural units and.0833 for decimal units.
IV. Installing Pavestone Paver Hatch Patterns for AutoCad LT
The instructions above apply to AutoCAD LT with the exception that the hatch pattern file is aclt.pat rather than acad.pat and acltiso.pat rather than acadiso.pat. Dont forget to rename your original aclt.pat file
to acltold.pat and acltiso.pat to acltisoold.pat before copying the Pavestone files, acad.pat and acadiso.pat file to your support folder. Then rename acad.pat to aclt.pat and acadiso.pat to acltiso.pat. You can also open Pavestone2009.pat in a text editor; copy the entire contents and paste it into your current aclt.pat and acltiso.pat files.

1 PERFORMANCE BRIEF

Performance Brief: Autodesk AutoCAD 2008
Riverbed Steelhead Mobile Accelerate Autodesk AutoCAD 2008
AutoCAD provides state-of-the-art software used by leading architecture, engineering, and manufacturing firms across a wide range of industries. Firms use AutoCAD to design drawings and products and them visually to clients and collaborating parties. While the application provides an outstanding tool for organizations to standardize on for design purposes, the size of the drawing files often exceed hundreds of megabytes on larger projects and can impact employees ability to collaborate effectively. For firms with distributed offices or a global presence, sharing and collaborating on large CAD documents can often lead to significant delays in accessing drawings during normal file open and save operations. Many firms estimate that design engineers can spend one-quarter to one full hour a day on remote file operations, dramatically reducing the available working time per person. These delays impact productivity and overall time-to-market for customers, and ultimately, delivery to the client.

TEST RESULTS

Bandwidth utilization is reduced by 98% Over 13x performance improvement
TESTING PARAMETERS The test environment to obtain the results described in this brief consisted of a WAN with a T1 connection, and a 100ms delay between locations. This scenario would be typical of a WAN link between Los Angeles and New York. For the open operation, AutoCAD 2008 was launched and then a simple file open was performed. For the save operation, the ISAVEPERCENT was set to zero and the file was saved back to the server under a different name using the 2007 DWG format. This test was performed using Steelhead Mobile 1.0.5 and a Steelhead appliance running RiOS 5.5. The Client OS was Windows XP Professional running AutoCAD 2008 w/ SP1 and hotfix. The Server OS was Windows 2003 Server R2 Enterprise Edition NOTE: The 2007 DWG format used by more recent versions of AutoCAD and Civil3D scrambles the file data during save operations even if no changes have been made to a drawing. As a result, Riverbed and AutoCAD collaborated to develop a WAN hotfix to address this problem. More information on this issue and links to download the hotfix can be found at the Autodesk support site under ID: TS1089748
Steelhead Mobile Enhanced AutoCAD 2008 - Local Performance Anywhere
Deploying Riverbed Steelhead Mobile along with AutoCAD 2008 software can greatly reduce the amount of time required to open, save and transfer CAD documents across the wide area network (WAN). As a result, organizations can achieve LAN-like access speeds of centralized design documents and improve the collaboration and productivity of their design specialists wherever they are. This gives firms the opportunity to source people on projects regardless of their location and enables near real-time collaboration on designs across distributed teams. The Riverbed Optimization System (RiOS) that powers Steelhead Mobile utilizes industry leading data streamlining, transport streamlining, and application streamlining to provide data de-duplication, compression, transport layer and application protocol optimization. These optimizations can cut AutoCAD traffic on the WAN by as much as 98% and accelerate access times by up to 13x.

Performance Improvements

Riverbed Steelhead Mobile accelerate AutoCAD 2008 in perfoming common operations such as opening and saving files (see sidebar) by up to 13x. Simultaneously, between 2 62x less data was traversing the WAN, a signifigant savings made possible by Riverbeds scalable data referencing techniques.
PERFORMANCE BRIEF: Steelhead Mobile Autodesk AutoCAD 2008
AutoCAD 2008 Data Reduction Data Transferred (bytes in millions)
Warm Cold Without Steelhead 1000
More than 98% data reduction
DEPLOYMENT BENEFITS Deploying Riverbed in conjunction with AutoCAD 2008 provides multiple benefits, including: Productivity gains. By dramatically reducing the amount of time needed to complete basic CAD file operations, engineers can save an hour per day or more. Maximize bandwidth. Steelhead Mobile can maximize available bandwidth for AutoCAD operations when variable links, latency and locations often conspire to limit mobile worker connectivity and performance.
AutoCAD 2008 Open Time to Complete (in seconds)
Warm Cold Without Steelhead 0.00 20.00 40.00 60.00 80.00 100.00 120.00 140.00 160.00

Almost 13x Faster

Typical Steelhead Mobile Software Deployment Architecture
Better, faster collaboration. By reducing the time to transfer AutoCAD files by an order or magnitude or more, Steelhead Mobile enable users to work collaboratively on large design documents wherever they are. Work can be shifted so that employees can work on a task regardless of their location.

Steelhead Mobile Software Accelerates a Broad Range of Applications

About Riverbed

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