AutoCAD Arch3D Program Installation Guild
by Lu-Yen Chang 2003.8
This shareware (Release 3) contains:
1. arch3d14.zip (738K, installation file for AutoCAD R14)
2. arch3d16.zip (476K, installation file for AutoCAD 2000, 2002, 2004)
3. readme.txt
How to install...
Step 1: Use file compression utility to unzip "arch3d14.zip" extracting
all the compressed
files into a new folder such as:
C:\Program Files\AutoCAD R14\arch3d
(Note: unzip "arch3d16.zip" for using AutoCAD 2000, 2002, 2004)
Step 2: Go into AutoCAD
Pick "Tools"
menu and select "Preferences" ("Options" for ACAD2000)
Choose
"Files" page and select first item "Support File Search Path"
Press "Add"
button then key-in or use "Browse" to enter a path
such as:
C:\Program Files\AutoCAD R14\arch3d
When done press "OK" to finish the setting.
Step 3: At Command: prompt key-in:
(command "menuload" "arch3d")
Then you will see the Arch3D toolbar floating on the screen.
Step 4: At Command: prompt key-in:
3dmenu1 (for English)
or 3dmenu2 (for
Chinese Big5 encoding)
Then you will see
the Arch3D menu appear on the right side of the
pulldown menu.
Now you can try the
Arch3D menu and pick the last one "About Arch3D...",
you will see a dialogue
box about this software.
Try some toolbar
bottoms, if the images dialogue box appears properly
then the installation
is succeeded.
To uninstall Arch3D...
Step 1: Just delete the folder contains all the previously installed arch3d files.
Step 2: Go into AutoCAD
Pick "Tools"
menu and select "Preferences" ("Options" for ACAD2000)
Choose
"Files" page and select first item "Support File Search Path"
Pick the previously added arch3d path such as:
C:\Program Files\AutoCAD R14\arch3d
Press "Remove"
button, when done press
"OK" to finish the setting.
Now you won't be bordered by Arch3D
any longer.
Arch3D is a lightweight but powerful program package, yet it costs only:
$20 US dollars (less than a computer book's price)
For software registration and further information, please e-mail to: