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Drafix Cad and HP710C inkjet printer
By:Dale Frolander
Date: 3/11/2000, 1:25 pm
In Response To: Computer software and hardware? (Brian Wegener)

> Dale, I was so impressed with the coming pictures that I paged through the
> entire website. Very nice.

> Early in the site you said that you drew the forms on a computer. What
> software did you use? What printer did you use (or did you use a
> plotter)?? I there cheap software that will draw forms from a table of
> offsets?

I bought Drafix Cad through a Boeing computer club a long time ago, just before they put it on the shelves. Then recently I looked for it for someone else and couldn't find it anywhere. I don't know if they went out of business. It's only 2D, but it's really easy to use and will print on multiple pages easily.

If I draw a form that is bigger than one piece of paper, it will print some on each sheet. Then it adds tick marks to the corners of the sheets to line the sheets up when taping them together. I just use my inkjet printer.

Dale

Messages In This Thread

New combing pictures.
Dale Frolander -- 3/10/2000, 5:45 am
Computer software and hardware?
Brian Wegener -- 3/11/2000, 10:21 am
Drafix Cad and HP710C inkjet printer
Dale Frolander -- 3/11/2000, 1:25 pm
Re: New combing pictures.
Spidey -- 3/10/2000, 1:45 pm
Thanks all
Dale Frolander -- 3/10/2000, 5:31 pm
Re: New combing pictures.
Mike Hanks -- 3/10/2000, 12:22 pm
Re: New combing pictures - very nice!
Hank -- 3/10/2000, 11:58 am
Re: New combing pictures.
Nick Schade - Guillemot Kayaks -- 3/10/2000, 8:53 am
Re: New combing pictures.
Ross Leidy -- 3/10/2000, 8:48 am
Re: New combing pictures.
mike allen ---} -- 3/10/2000, 8:10 pm