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Sometimes an error happens when CALC4CAD is sending a fastener or gear and afterward dialog boxes do not work in AutoCAD. Is this normal?

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Sometimes an error happens when CALC4CAD is sending a fastener or gear and afterward dialog boxes do not work in AutoCAD. Is this normal?

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Yes, unfortunately. CALC4CAD was unable to send the entire script file which includes resetting several AutoCAD system variables that are used. The main items that may be changed are the current layer, the object snap setting and the FILEDIA system variable. The user can easily reset the current layer and the object snap settings but users may never have seen FILEDIA before. The FILEDIA system variable is set to “1” if dialog boxes will be used and set to “0” if dialog boxes are disabled and only the command line will take input. It is necessary for CALC4CAD to set this value to “0” and the user will have to reset it to “1” after an error if the user wants to see dialog boxes. How do I remove CALC4CAD from my computer? CALC4CAD does not change any system files so all that is necessary to unistall CALC4CAD is to delete the files from the CALC4CAD directory or use the uninstall feature on the Windows control panel. Can CALC4CAD perform simple beam analysis? Yes. The beam analysis uses cl

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