MEETING MINUTES                                                                                             October 14, 1998

Meeting called to order by President Mark Hazen.

Pizza and soft drinks provided by Kelly Malone of Visio

  Old Business:

n       Minutes from previous meeting were left at the office.  They will be e-mailed to the president for final review and acceptance.

n        Please include your e-mail address on the attendance list.  We will send meeting notifications via e-mail or phone call.

n       Treasurer’s report:  (by Linda Lowell) We currently have $520.38 in the bank.  Please submit any receipts for payment that are outstanding.

 New Business:

The president informed the members of free e-mail AutoCAD tips at www.zdtips.com

Our web page is up and running as you can see on the screen, please send your information to Jim Coats for posting.

President Mark Hazen proposed we meet more frequently as in once a month.  The membership agreed.  Mark will work with Jim Coats to secure the use of Conference Room A at the City of Redding office.

The next meeting will be on November 4, 1998 at 5:30 PM.  Also,  the first sub-group meeting will be on October 22, 1998  5:30 PM in conference room A at City of Redding office and will be on AutoCAD Map3.  We encourage everyone to attend.

This meetings presentation was by Kelly Malone of Visio Corporation.  He is the ADC marketing manager and gave a demonstration of  IntelliCAD.  Kelly has worked with Autodesk and Softdesk. 

  IntelliCAD uses the .dwg file extension, supports autolisp functions, has similar pulldowns as AutoCAD.

  Can be used with ArchT by Kativ, see data sheets.

  IntelliCAD supports multiple document interface, has a drawing explorer that can manage layers, linetypes.    Layers and linetypes can be cut a pasted from one file to another.  Similar layers keep current properties.   Blocks are illustrated with a graphic.  Osnaps are on the mouse button similar to AutoCAD.

Work can be done on a reference file in one window, the current drawing is open in a second window and  a reload of the reference file will update the current drawing since multiple dwg files can be open with only one application.

New toolbars can be created; keyboard commands, aliases, macros, mouse buttons can all be customized.  Also, AutoCAD menus and custom menus can be imported.

The render feature is not high detail/high resolution, but the shade, hide, mirror and reflect features work very well.

There are 100 applications available to use with IntelliCAD  

.IntelliCAD does not support the .dwf format, ASA solids, or object ARX from Mechanical Desktop.  It does support truetype fonts, uses 90% of the tools used in AutoCAD, runs lisps from Softdesk, uses bonus

utilities for AutoCAD, uses paperspace/modelspace and will open all .dwg format files.  Also, it does not support the .pcp files yet.

IntelliCAD can be purchased for $349.00, comes with 90-day free support and addition support can be found on the web of call their 1-800 number. (see data sheets).

Attendees and prize winners:

Mark Hazen, NORCADD

Thomas Jordan (new) – tool set

Lee Peterson (new) City of Red Bluff – screw driver set

Bill Cummins (new)- needle nose pliers

Colling Godbe (new)

Jerry Casmey (new)

Rich Harrison (new)- T-shirt

Jim Coats, City of Redding – IntelliCAD software

Jerrald Martin (new) – T-shirt

Wally Daniels – T-shirt

John Boyle, Between The Lines

Gerry Cupp, City of Shasta Lake

Traci Montrose, Sierra West Academy – T-shirt

Gary Jackson (new)

Linda Lowell, CH2M HILL

Bill Hinek, City of Red Bluff

Greg Fielden

Joe Marvin, Between The Lines

Gene Everett (new)

John Perry

Brian Howard (new) – T-shirt

Meeting adjourned.

Email address:  ncaug@ci.redding.ca.us   and don’t forget to send all your interesting  things to our local web site.  Contact Jim Coats at the City of Redding, fax number is 225-4360.