AutoCAD - old 3D commands

To all,

I've been getting inquiries about 3D commands in older versions of
AutoCAD - which is okay, I'm very fond of R12 and R14 - they're just
not available anymore. I dug through my old files and pulled a couple
that have 3D solids command listing, descriptions and some cross
reference R12 to R14. I don't have cross reference to ACAD 2002 - it
was written from scratch. The stuff following is copy and paste from
those files.

3D Solids in AutoCAD Release 12

To Load AME:
From Menus:
Model, Utility, Load Modeler

At Command Line:
(XLOAD "AME")

Or use any of the AME commands and AutoCAD will load AME.

SOLHPAT solid hatch pattern (steel)
SOLHANGLE solid hatch angle
SOLHSIZE solid hatch size (I bet you couldn't guess.)

SOLSUB solid subtract - to create a region model
SOLEXT solid extrude - to extrude a solid mode from region
model
SOLWDENS solid wire density - select a value 1 - 12
SOLBOX solid box - one of the solid primitives
SOLCYL solid cylinder
SOLREV solid revolve - to revolve a curve (PLINE) about an
axis

SOLDELENT one of the SOLids systems VARiables, this one
controls whether
or not the polyline profile is deleted after
SOLREV, or other
operations, the values are:
1 = never, 2 = ask, 3 = always
<3>

SOLMOVE solid move - like the name says, but it uses some
strange terms
any motion is called "translate", so if I want
to move the unit
one unit along the Y axis I would enter TY1 -
the command
also has its own wild-looking icon when it is
active

SOLIDIFY like it says, it can turn an extruded closed
polyline (like a circle)
into a solid

SOLUNION solid union - to join two or more solids
together into one

SOLFILL solid fillet - puts a fillet on the selected edge

SOLCHAM solid chamfer - puts a chamfer on the selected edge

SOLMAT solid material - used to set or change the material in
the solid
use the default "acad.mat" file, unless you're
a pro
default material is mild steel

SOLMASSP solids mass properties - calculates and
displays the mass properties
(a really wild looking bunch of stuff - used
only for engineering)
SOLSUBDIV and SOLDECOMP settings affect the
accuracy

SOLMESH solids mesh - puts a mesh on your solids model

SOLSECT solids section - generates a cutting plane view of the
solids model

SOLPURGE to remove some or all of AutoCAD's solids temp
notes from file

SOLPROF solids profile - generates a profile view set of lines
to go with
the area generated by the SOLSECT command

SOLCUT solids cut - allows you to actually cut away part of
your model

SOLFEAT solids feature - allows you to copy features of you
model to use
to construct a new view or shape

SOLVIEW & SOLDRAW used to generate 2D views from 3D models

3D Solids:

COMMANDS
Release 14
Release 12 Abbr. Full

BOUNDARY
INF INTERFERE
IN INTERSECT
REG REGION
SEC SECTION
SL SLICE
SOLWDENS
SOLVIEW SOLVIEW
SOLDRAW SOLDRAW
DISPSILH
ISOLINES
FACETRES
MASSPROP MASSPROP
SOLPROF SOLPROF
ACISOUT
IMPORT
STLOUT
SOLCHAM CHA CHAMFER
SOLEXT EXT EXTRUDE
SOLFILL F FILLET
SOLREV REV REVOLVE
SOLSUB SU SUBTRACT
SOLUNION UNI UNION

SOLBOX BOX
SOLCYL CYLINDER
SPHERE
CONE
WE WEDGE
TOR TORUS
VPOINT VPOINT
DVIEW DVIEW
AREA AREA

SOLSUB
subtracts the volume of the 2nd entity selected from the 1st entity
selected
in R12 is used to create region models

SOLEXT
extrude a region model
in R14 can extrude along a selected path

REGION
used to create region models in R14

BOUNDARY
used to create region models in R14
uses method similar to picking interior points in BHATCH

Solid Primitives
BOX, CYLINDER, SPHERE, CONE, WEDGE, and TORUS
can be used in R12 and R14, with different commands
found in model pull down menu, don't confuse with surface primitives

INTERSECT
when used, only common, or intersecting volume remains, the rest is
gone

INTERFERE
when used, a new volume shape is generated, like INTERSECT, but
originals remain also

REVOLVE
used to revolve a solid, works like REVSURF for surfaces

SECTION
used to make a section view cut

SLICE
used to cut away part of solid, similar to SECTION, but different

SOLWDENS
in R12 is used like SURFTAB1 and SURFTAB2 for "wire density" for
solids

DISPSILH
has functions that controls the wireframe display (0-1)

ISOLINES and FACETRES
has functions related to display in R14


I hope this answers the questions I've been asked through CCED. Good
luck to all.

For those who were asking about machinable text in AutoCAD - I'll try
to export a file from MasterCAM (at school)with text, numbers, and
punctuation and make it in different file formats so others can use
it. Give me a little time...

Ivan