Just as Autodesk releases maintence upgrades for AutoCAD, SM 14 is upgraded everytime you e-mail with a problem. Here's what happens:
This means that rather than waiting 6 months or more for a maintenance CD, you can download the current version of SM at any time and re-install. (Be sure to save your customization.) Of course, you can download a specific fix from this page - your choice.
After downloading, just use your existing passcode during installation. You can easily download from the purchasing page, without entering an order. SM 14 Purchase Page
You can also request a new CD from SEA for $15.
Symptoms: Super menu keyboard short cuts do not work. If you switch
to the text screen after startup, you see a screen full of raw AutoLISP
code.
Why:This occurs if you have not installed the bonus routines during your
AutoCAD installation.
Solution: Install the bonus routines from the AutoCAD CD. They are good and
SM uses some of them as options.
The ommission affects the early Super Menu R14 CDs prior to 2/1/98. The file SYM.LIB was not created in C:\SM14\SYM (typ). Down load the file below, unzip it and copy it to the your symbol directory. If you have installed your library in another directory you will need to open sym.lib and modify the directory locations with text editor.
Download Symlib.zip
After installation, this error reports that an "*.lst" file cannot
be found when you type SAM, 1, pick T2-9-2 or otherwise access it.
(The LST file is a symbol library control file.) The problem is
easily corrected by editing
c:\sm14\symsub.txt. Using notepad, change the single line of text in
symsub.txt from
c:\sym\misc\misc -to- c:\sm14\sym\misc\misc
MED won't recognize mouse menu, SM14WM.MNU.
Download SM-MED.LSP (zip) for R14
When using a fixed height text, SM-BOM would place a 0 by balloons with more than qty 1. In R13, switch to a text style that doesn't use a fixed height (specify 0 for text height). R14 users can download a fix.
Download SMBOM14.ZIP for R14
Symptoms: Type CHT at the command line and get error.
Why: Bonus routines not loaded or you need update to MNL file.
Solution1:
Use MED command from command line to modify the MNL file
to modify (defun c:cht ()... to the following:(defun c:cht()(setq errmsg nil) (if (not cht_Main) (setq errmsg (load "chtext" (strcat "CHTEXT.LSP Not found\n" "Make sure bonus directory is in AutoCAD path")))) (if (= (type errmsg) 'STR) (alert errmsg)(c:cht)))
Solution2:
Download a new copy of SM14W1.MNL, be sure to rename it to match your current MNL file and then copy it to c:\sm14\support (typ)Download R14 MNL
Download txtutil.lsp (zipped) (need to be placed in c:\sm14\lisp)
Symptoms: Select Height-Style when you get to the Name option for
selecting existing styles in the drawing, you get
"The wrong number of arguments ..." error.
Solution: Download R14 SM-GTXT.LSP (zip)
This SM command dimensions either an angle or an arc length. The arc length value in some cases was in error. Affects R12-R13.
Download R12 Circdim | Download R13 Circdim
Symptoms: Shaft keyway would crash.
Solution: Download file and install in c:\sm14\mdo.
There is a update available to fix a couple small bugs. For instance, you can't select an Angle as your first shape. Fixed height text will cause a problem with SM-STEEL.LSP. The data file PT.STL contained spaces in the size. For instance 1 3/4 was converted to 1-3/4 in the dowload file.
Download SM-STEEL fix 13 | Download SM-STEEL fix 14
Problem: Can't find symbol overlay for the digitizer (or reference sheet)
At the end of the last page of a SAM library, you will find a MENU drawing which is a compliation of all the symbols in a library in the form of a side sheet for a 12x17/18 digitizer. It can be also be used as a reference sheet with symbol numbers. It is intended for you to insert the drawing, customize it, and plot it.
There is a mistake in the file c:\sym\har\har.lst so you can not insert this compilation drawing. The current line reads like this:
HARDWARE Hardware Library Reference/Sidepiece (12x17) SYL SM-SYM
but should read like this:
HARMENU Hardware Library Reference/Sidepiece (12x17) SYL SM-SYM
Problem: SM-WBLK can't add slide to SAM R13 because it can load SLBADS required to add a slide to a SAM libary.
Download new version of SM-WBLK.LSP (zip) R13
Symtom: When using the MENU command to load SUPER MENU the first time, you can't find the file.
In the MENU command dialog look in the lower left corner for the file type. It defaults to *.MNC and *.MNS. Select *.MNU and our SM13-?.MNU file should appear.
Problem: SM-WBLK, SM's extended Wblock command, can't create new SAM library because we converted the make directory program from SM-MKDIR.ABE to an ARX program but didn't upgrade SM-WBLK.
Download new version of SM-WBLK.LSP (zipped) for R14
Symtom: When using the MENU command to load SUPER MENU the first time, you can't find the file.
In the MENU command dialog look in the lower left corner for the file type. It defaults to *.MNC and *.MNS. Select *.MNU and our SM13-?.MNU file should appear.
Symtom: A customer that loaded our SUPER MENU and tablet area 3 was dead. Then they loaded the AutoCAD menu and it was fine. In the SM13-4.MNL file, we load ACAD.MNL. If the (load "ACAD.MNL") statement was commented out, then tablet are 3 worked. (But, of course, other things that depend on ACAD.MNL didn't work.)
In ACAD.MNL, there is a section where it reads the ACADNT.CFG file looking for alternate tablet areas that are part of ACAD.MNU. If those areas were accessed before SUPER MENU was installed, then it will continue to try to set those areas even if SUPER MENU is loaded. Since SM doesn't have corresponding alternate tablet areas, the areas are disabled.
Here are the fixes:
1) One way to fix the problem is to comment out the line (set_alt_tabs) ie, ;(set_alt_tabs).
2) Another way is to ma1nually edit the following line in \R13\WIN\ACADNT.CFG:
[Menu]
T_Menu=15
to
[Menu]
T_Menu=0
3) Another way is to manually edit the following line in \R13\WIN\ACADNT.CFG:
4) You could reload the ACAD menu and reset the alt tablet areas to normal (row 1 of tablet area 4).
5) We have added the following line to our MNL file just before ACAD.MNL is loaded.
(setcfg "cfgdata/menu/t_menu" "0") (load "acad.mnl")
This will change all of the tablet areas to normally without user intervention while allowing ACAD.MNU to function with alternate tablet menus.
Symtom: A customer that loaded our SUPER MENU and tablet area 1 for 2D was okay, but when he switch to Machine Design, it went dead. The AutoCAD menu worked fine.
In this case the AutoCAD initial compliation had truncated the the other tablet area 1 menus. The solution was merely to use the MENU command, select the MNU file and reload. This forces re-compliation. It is important to save the MNS file prior to a recompile if you done any customization of the buttons. You will then have to use a text editor to merge them back into the new MNS file.
Symtom: After customizing a tool bar, tablet area 1 goes dead.
After the tool bar has been edited, you will notice that all menus get recompiled. This recomplilation uses the MNS form of the menu file, not MNU. It appears that menu compilation from the MNS state is different than the MNU and the sub-menus for tablet area 1 get compiled into one single menu.
One work-around is to copy your customization to the MNU file using a text editor and recompile. However, versions of SUPER MENU R14 since 5/1/99 now have the sub-menus split out to the individual module menus. For instance, the machine design table area 1 is no longer in the main menu SM14w1.MNU but is now contained in SM14MDO1.MNU. This required some changes to the menuloading routine as well. To get this fix, you must download a new version of your 2D Base Super Menu from the R14 purchase page, plus all of the modules you have purchased, or you may request a new CD from SEA for $15.
Symtom: Installation aborts because there is not free enough disk space yet there is a big half empty drive.
When R12 DOS came out in 1992 (6 months later for Windows) there were no 2 Gig hard drives and hard disk space was very tight so we had a test for free space. The installation routine from that era doesn't know how to cope with such big drives and issues an error.
The disk size check in the downloadable install.dat files has been disabled. Download and unzip the appropriate file. Then copy it to your R12.5 installation diskette, overwriting the existing install.dat.
Remember, for reasons like these, that R12 is at the end of life for any technical support, whether it is from SEA, a digitizer manufacturer or Autodesk.
SM R12.5 INSTALL.DAT for Windows | SM R12.5 INSTALL.DAT for DOS
Super Menu Lite now has support for R10-R14 plus ACLT95/97
Visit Super Menu Lite page
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