PERI-LINK 5101 Halifax St. Little Rock, AR 72209 We are announcing the birth of our new product! Our product is depicted thru this symbol sample disk. It is a sampler of our Master Symbols Disk. We are doing this so that you will have a chance to take a test drive and decide for your self as to whether or not you would consider our Master Symbols Disk to be of help to you, in time and money saved. There are of course, other symbol libraries in the offing. However, from what we have seen that is available for AutoCad and AutoSketch, is quite expensive. Also, the ones that we have seen, do not indicate what a particular part's function really is. We go a step further! Most of the passive components are pretty much understood as well as some of the active components. We call a resistor, a resistor and an OpAmp, an OpAmp. In the TTL chip series however, each symbol has its own "description box" explaining exactly the function it performs. This works good when the symbol is readin when the Zoom X option is at a value of 1. For a 7400 chip let's say, the description will tell exactly what its function is. Something like this: 旼컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴커 � Quad 2 Input Nand Gate � � 74 74C 74H 74LS 74S � 읕컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴켸 Now you have what amounts to an electronic data base on a wide range of components! Chances are, if you want to find out what a particular chip's function is, all you have to do is bring it into your draw area of your screen and look at the description box. Easier then paging through a catalog. In the future, we will introduce updates that you can add to your library. The symbols will include parts from across the board. We have really only scratched the surface on what is available to circuit designers, component wise, with respect to our Master Symbols Disk. Below, are a few ideas on using our library disk. I would recommend reading them before installation. The instructions below are generally for AutoSketch. Some will apply to AutoCad as well. Hints Subject: Index DXF files............................................1 SKD files............................................2 AutoCad..............................................3 AutoSketch...........................................4 STARTCPY.BAT.........................................5 FORM.BAT.............................................6 1> (DXF Tm) files- are files known as (D)rawing (I)nterchange (F)ormats. This type of drawing is an ASCII text file that allows drawings to be used between other programs such as from AutoSketch to AutoCad (V2.5+) or any other program that can import DXF files. You can save any drawing in AutoSketch as an SKD or an DXF file. Open up your View Menu and set a value of .5 for your Zoom X option (once). Then you simply go back to your File Menu, pick "Read DXF" and bring in a symbol. Same procedure for adding another symbol to the same drawing, except that you don't have to re-do the Zoom X option. When you are done with your drawing, then you can re-scale your screen to suit your requirements. The "Part" option in the Draw Menu works with the SKD formats. And not with DXF formats. For a much more detailed description of these files, look in Appendix C: in your AutoSketch manual. 2> SKD files are AutoSketch formats. Importing SKD files into the draw area of your screen, is a little different then for an DXF file. Click on the Open option of the File Menu and select the part that you want. Set a value of .5 in the View Menu's Zoom X option and then import another SKD file as a part. After you finish with your drawing, you can re-adjust your screen scale to suit your requirements. 3> AutoCad has another file format called DWG (drawing) that it uses. When you import a DXF file, just re-save it as an DWG file. Or maybe create a batch file that will convert DXF files into the DWG format. 4> AutoSketch- all of the files were created on version 2.0 on Layer 1 and Grid set at .200. 5> STARTCPY.BAT file. This batch file (through a drive and file menus) will copy all of the files to your hard disk (DXF and/or SKD). Do to the large amount of symbol files on our Master Symbols Disk, all of the files are in their respective descriptive sub-directories for organization and quick location. 6> FORM.BAT- We hope that these symbols are of value to you. If you would like to order our Master Symbols Disk, turn on your printer, make sure it is on-line and then run the batch file called FORM.BAT. You will need approximately 4.0mb of disk space for all of the DXF files and 3.0mb for the SKD files on our Master Symbols Disk. To start the sample disk program, type: A> PERILINK - you may hit any key to continue to the next info-screen(s). When you hit a key after you read the last info-screen, a cursor bar menu will pop up prompting you to choose a disk drive to copy your files to. When you make your decision, another cursor bar menu will pop up prompting for the type of symbol format (DXF, SKD or ALL) to be copied to the disk drive that you have chosen, depending of course, on the CAD program you are using, AutoCad or AutoSketch. Please read this Copyright Notice 컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴 This software package has been copyrighted by PERI-LINK of Little Rock, AR, and is protected under federal copyright laws. Use of this software indicates your acceptance of this software and all terms and conditions for distribution and use of this software. PERI-LINK shall not accept any liability or responsibility of any kind including special, indirect or consequential damages, arising from the use of our software. Gratitudes: Thanks to Mark Strong from StrongWare for his BMENU ver 2.0 menu maker freeware, making things a little easier to put this demo disk together. AutoCad and AutoSketch are registered trademarks of AUTODESK, Inc.