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mNVD Product Note 2000.3

Date: Wednesday November 16, 2000

Addresses:

Field Sales Support Distributors

MTS Noise and Vibration Division

From: Tim Copeland/ Rik Henson Subject: I-DEAS 8 M1.1 Overlay Patch and Printing Guide, NT and Unix

This document provides the patch for printing on I-DEAS 8M1 with the overlay. Also a general printing guide is provided to aid users in setting up and getting quality prints from I-DEAS.

The Problem

There are many reported problems with using printing for I-DEAS 8M1.1. This patch to the I-DEAS 8 M1 overlay release corrects the issue found where printing will error with a “flexlm error –5” if the measgraph utility was run prior to starting the SDI print server.

Solution Download the dll required for fixing this problem from the MTS web site and install it. To correct this you need to download the patch from www.mts.com/nvd/support.htm and load the file into your local ideas directory. For example you should replace the libMtsGraph.dll file in the %SDRC_INSTL%/ideas directory.

Printing Guide

Setting up a printer Setting up a system profile Setting up graphics defaults Default Tiff Properties… Default JPEG properties... Default EMF properties… Default PNG properties… Default CGM Properties… Known Issues

Setting up a printer To view the Ideas Help information for printing, go to the URL: (I-deas install location)\SDRCHelp\LANG\English\int_ug\Print_app.htm To define a printer in Windows NT for Ideas, login as the user who installed Ideas and run Ideas Printer Administrator from Start menu / Programs, or from the command prompt run %SDRC_INSTL%\bin\printAdmin.cmd

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To define a printer in Unix for Ideas, login as the user who installed Ideas and run $SDRC_INSTL/bin/printAdmin The Ideas print admin

Select add – The print setup form will appear

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Insert a unique name for the printer; choose a printer model; set the NT/Queue to a printer that is setup in the NT printers. (These will show up in the local pull down menu automatically) OK the form.

Setting up a system profile The system profile will be the default settings used when Ideas printing is invoked. Additional profiles can be setup in the print setup form inside Ideas and set as the default printer/profile. From the print setup main menu select system profile.

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Settings to achieve quality plots using the hp4si and hp4000 plotters Alignment Horizontal Right Vertical Left (Center-Center does not correctly line up the plot in the center of the page) Orientation Landscape Scaling Fit to page 95% Preserve line width Translate Translate Horizontal –0.4 Vertical 0.4 Paper Paper 8.5 x 11.0 (Dependent on the printer)

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Margin No change Color Monochrome (For black and white plots) Print Background Color No Invert white objects on white background NOTE: If Ideas is running and the print server has already been started the new settings will not take affect until the print server is restarted. The print server can be restarted by right mouse click on the SDI tray icon and selecting shut down server. The server will be restarted when print is selected from the Ideas file menu.

Setting up graphics defaults The settings provided are only to be considered as suggested settings. Some settings will cause problems when saving graphics, review known issues before setting up the graphics defaults. Select graphics defaults from the print administrator form

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Default Tiff Properties…

Note: Properties will change slightly inside Ideas dependent on the graph being printed (width and height will change with the dimensions of the plot being printed) also pixel settings will change dependent on the screen resolution of the system.

Default JPEG properties…

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Note: Properties will change slightly inside Ideas dependent on the graph being printed (width and height will change with the dimensions of the plot being printed) also pixel settings will be dependent on the screen resolution of the system.

Default EMF properties…

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Default PNG properties…

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Note: Properties will change slightly inside Ideas dependent on the graph being printed (width and height will change with the dimensions of the plot being printed) also pixel settings will be dependent on the screen resolution of the system.

Default CGM Properties…

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Known Issues

Ideas 8 releases prior to the M1 overlay will have additional problems not documented here.

• Center – Center for print setup does not work correctly, the print preview provided will appear to apply the center - center function but when printed the setting is not applied.

• Tiff graphics export does not work correctly for 300 dpi output. The graph will be completely

wrong. 72, 150, 600, and 720 DPI appear to work correctly.

• Print / Close does not work correctly. Two problems have been noted for print/close, the plot will not print at all when using this with graphics outputs, and also when a print/close is performed the next time print is selected from the file menu tdas will crash with an application error. The tdas crash is somewhat intermittent.

• EMF graphics export ignores the width and height settings, changes are not reflected in the output

file.

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• CGM graphics export does not have an option to invert white objects on white background therefore using the cgm export then inserting the file into word will not appear correctly. This is the same problem that occurs when using picture file creation of a CGM file.

• CGM files imported into a word document will not be formatted correctly due to a problem with

word.

In office 97 the graphics filter registry setting would not allow importing CGM files unless the user atatempting this was a member of the administrator group. In office 2000 the same registry setting will cause the CGM import to be formatted incorrectly.

Registry setting: \HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Shared Tools\Graphics Filters\Import\CGM Using regedt32 change the permission on the above key to allow all users full control (change from special access)

Support

Any questions please contact MTS support at email address nvd.support@mts.com or call directly for support in your area.

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