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Norton Antivirus 2009 (finally) delivers
I first began using Norton products in the early 90s, with Norton Advanced Utilities version 4.5, and I was a huge fan of their products for a number of years. For well over a decade, though, Symantec’s Norton line of products has been extremely bloated and every one of them that I have run has [...]
Surfaces which should yield one single minor contour don’t show any contours
In Civil 3D 2009, any surface which uses a style under which only one minor contour would show for the entire surface, no contours are shown.
This is very difficult to explain verbally, but the image below illustrates the problem.
Workarounds:
Create a temporary style which shows major contours at the interval that you would typically show minor [...]
2d solids do not observe fillmode withinin certain layouts
Since rolling out 2009 to a large userbase, we have encountered several drawing files which contain specific layouts within which any viewport will not show filled 2d solids properly. This behavior seems to be specific to AutoCAD 2009. The same drawing files behave as expected in AutoCAD 2008 (and, presumably, earlier releases).
Although fillmode is turned [...]
Most Recently Used Documents fills up with DST files
Starting with AutoCAD 2009, the most recently used files list is designed to list both DWG and DST files. Unfortunately, once nine (cumulative) DST files have been opened by one user, then the most recently used documents list will no longer contain drawing files.
Workarounds:
I wrote this command to completely reset the MRUF list. This will [...]