In order to use CADRaster 15 you should have:

CADRaster Setup provides a quick and easy way to install this program on a user computer or file server. Setup uses a standard Windows user interface style. It contains all features and functions that are appropriate for Windows applications.

After loading CD-ROM, Tessel Software Line Setup starts automatically and lets you choose a product and its language version. In order to restart Tessel Software Line Setup, e.g. to install more products, re-load CD-ROM or open it in Windows Explorer and double-click TSLStartup.exe.

Setup tries to determine the location of AutoCAD automatically (using Windows registry). The AutoCAD’s location found by Setup is then presented in a dialog box, where you can confirm it or browse for another one.

Next, you can accept or choose an installation directory for CADRaster. It is recommended to use separate installation directories when installing multiple versions of CADRaster on the same machine, e.g. to test patches or new releases.

The default directory name is C:\Program Files\Tessel Software Line\CADRaster (if selected directory does not exist, it will be created, even with its parent directories).

After this phase Setup starts copying selected files to the installation directory. During this, Setup displays its progress bar.

Setup copies all CADRaster files to the chosen directory and creates the log of performed operations. Demo files are copied to the additional DOC subdirectory that may be deleted when no longer needed. The newly created program group Tessel Software Line contains the following items:

The default CADRaster INI file is copied to the CADRaster hidden directory: C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Roaming\Tessel\cadrpro.cfg\CADRPRO.ini. It contains the option settings and the default attribute values for CADRaster commands.

Each product installed from Tessel CD or downloaded from http://tessel.com comes with a demo license.XML file that allows running it in Evaluation Mode accepting the enclosed demo drawings only. After starting CADRaster you will get a warning message – click the Evaluation mode button in order to proceed.

In order to utilize the program normally, you must add a valid user license file.

If license file LICENSE.XML was delivered separately it must be copied to CADRaster installation folder.

You can view your license files using Notepad and manage them manually whenever necessary. Service Pack Disks downloaded from http://tessel.com do not contain license file – please contact your dealer or admin@tessel.se to get one.

Your License.xml file may require a hardware lock. In order to use hardware lock you must install Sentinel driver.

You may install them independently from Tessel CD or download them from http://www.safenet-inc.com/support-downloads/sentinel-drivers/.

Setup includes an integrated uninstallation program that allows users to uninstall CADRaster components cleanly and effectively and recover system resources such as disk space used by files and registry entries.

If, for some reason, you must uninstall CADRaster, run the Uninstall program icon or start Control Panel’s Programs and Features, select CADRaster and click the Uninstall button. Uninstall will remove most of the CADRaster program files and delete changes made to your Windows files. However, some files that are used by Windows or other programs may not be removed automatically, so it may be necessary to delete them manually.

To configure CADRaster to work with remote hardware key perform following steps:

Using CADRaster as a user without Administrator privileges should not be hindered and all functions of CADRaster should work properly.

Although please remember (as it was said before), computer Administrator should always perform installation process. Also Administrator should run CADRaster for the first time after the installation, before user. He should point proper AutoCAD, check if CADRaster loads with correct license and if CADRaster ribbon is present. This is the safest method for using CADRaster on computer with users accounts.

Please note that User accounts have restricted access and rights on Windows OS. CADRaster does not enable to do things that normally User account would not be albe to do (for instance: saving or editing files that user do not have rights to)

When running with AutoCAD CADRaster is a separate ARX application that can be loaded on demand. At the end of the installation process, Setup creates a program group Tessel Software Line with an item named CADRaster that contains a command line invoking cadrpro.exe in the CADRaster directory and fills Windows system registry with information compatible with AutoCAD’s demand load specification. When you start CADRaster using CADRaster group item it will be loaded automatically after starting AutoCAD. If you start AutoCAD other way CADRaster will be activated after entering one of the following commands:

CADRASTER, ROPEN, RNEW, RCONVERT, RCREATE, RSCANONE, RSCANMANY, RSCANSOURCE, RSCANPARS, RCFG, RHELP, RABOUT

The AutoCAD’s DEMANDLOAD system variable that controls the demand loading operations must be set to 2 or 3 to make CADRaster autoloading upon command invocation.

When you have AutoCAD started together with CADRaster for the first time, you should define Plotting output device named CADRaster Rasterizer according to the description below. The device is needed only for RCreate and RInsert commands.

To add a new plotter device click on AutoCAD "A" main menu button. Then unfold more option for Print option and click on Manage Plotter.

Windows Explorer window will pop up. Double click on Add-A-Plotter Wizard icon.

Using wizard dialogs, create a plotter named CADRaster Rasterizer using your system printer driver that you have already configured (do not use Heidi one - suggested device if you do not have one: HP LaserJet 2200).

Click the Next button.

Select System Printer option and click the Next button.

Select your Printer and click the Next button.

Do not import anything and just click the Next button.

Name a plotter CADRaster Rasterizer and click the Next button.

Click Finish button to complete adding a plotter.

RCreate and RInsert commands implementation changes list of standard paper sizes available for Default System Printer, adding items named RasterizePortrait and RasterizeLandscape. Please ignore them while selecting the printout paper size.

CADRaster installation for AutoCAD LT is similar to installation for AutoCAD. The setup program creates all files needed to run CADRaster integrated with AutoCAD LT.

You start CADRaster by double clicking its icon. As for installation under AutoCAD LT there is no other way to have CADRaster started.

When you have AutoCAD started together with CADRaster for the first time, you should define Plotting output device named CADRaster Rasterizer according to the description in the section called “CADRaster and AutoCAD”.

RCreate and RInsert commands implementation changes list of standard paper sizes available for Default System Printer, adding items named RasterizePortrait and RasterizeLandscape. Please ignore them while selecting the printout paper size.

An image frame displayed around CADRaster image can be controlled by the IMAGEFRAME standard AutoCAD's command.

Using CADRaster integrated with AutoCAD and other third-party applications sometimes may require more detailed configuration than described in the previous sections.

When AutoCAD is launched the following conditions must be observed for CADRaster to be run successfully:

While using CADRaster integrated with AutoCAD LT the following conditions must be satisfied for CADRaster to run successfully:

While integrating CADRaster with applications that perform automatic initialization at the beginning of AutoCAD session there may be interference with CADRaster initialization procedure. To work around the problem set SkipAutoLoading=1 variable in section [Options] of the cadrpro.ini file. The option disables auto-loading of CADRaster extension files. After starting AutoCAD session with your application, just type any CADRaster command that will cause CADRaster to load and initialize.

Magnifying glass may not work correctly on Windows 7 and newer with AutoCAD 2013, 2012, 2011 or 2010. It happens when hardware acceleration is enabled. To turn it off type “3dconfig” command. “Adaptive Degradation and Performance Tuning” dialog box will appear on the screen. Select “Manual tune” button. It will invoke “Manual Performance Tuning” dialog box. Uncheck “Enable hardware acceleration” option. Accept changes.

There are several limitations in 64-bit version of CADRaster:

CADRaster can display and plot raster files of any width and height. Editing operations are limited to raster images which width and height not exceed 32767 pixels. This limit does not apply to composite documents that may have combined extents of all subdocuments. When there is a need to edit greater image you should use the RSplit command to split big image into smaller parts.

Maximum dimension of plot that may be produced by CADRaster is 32767 pixels both for width and height. This limit is 65535 pixels under Windows NT.

CADRaster supports up to 512 subdocuments in a single TCD file.

Under AutoCAD LT raster tracing and snap functionality is not available inside floating viewports.

Under AutoCAD LT CADRaster commands are available only by clicking CADRaster's toolbar menu. You can not activate CADRaster command entering it’s name from the keyboard. RSplit command is available when pressing RConvert button and Shift key at the same time. RScanMany command is available when pressing RscanOne button and Shift key at the same time. ClearDrawOrder command is not available.

The RCreate command uses AutoCAD’s PLOT command to rasterize vector entities. Due to PLOT command limitations you can create raster image which dimensions can not exceed 65,535 pixels in X or Y directions.

If AutoCAD's variable TARGET is not set to 0,0,0 value (Parallel Projection or a Perspective View is used) CADRaster may eventually display raster image at a wrong position in AutoCAD coordinates. This results in displacement of raster images in hybrid drawings caused by TARGET value.

To display raster in the right position, the TARGET variable must be set to 0 using DVIEW command:

Command: _DVIEW
Select objects: _all
CAmera/TArget/Distance/POints/PAn/Zoom/TWist/CLip/Hide/Off/Undo/<eXit>: _POints
Enter target point: 0,0,0
Enter camera point: 0,0,1
   CAmera/TArget/Distance/POints/PAn/Zoom/TWist/CLip/Hide/Off/Undo/<eXit>: _X

Command: TARGET
TARGET = 0.0000,0.0000,0.0000 (read only)
        

On some computers, when working with multiply drawing windows, CADRaster can hang and will not respond.

To fix this problem you can use parameter MdiSafeMode. Check it in the section called “[Options] section”.