How To: Disable Bell (Beeping) on Calcomp 9100 Digitzer

Procedure

The Calcomp 9100 digitizer beeps whenever a button is pressed on the cursor.

Answer:

To stop the beeping, edit the CAL9100 digitizer format file, and replace the initialization sequence with these two lines:

	5
	27 37 86 56 13

This is the CAL9100 digform file before the changes:

 'CAL9100'		CALCOMP 9100 DIGITZER
1			DIGITIZE DEVICE #
'(A2,2F5.3)'		DIGITIZER FORMAT
F			NO MENU BAR
F			SINGLE BUTTON MODE OFF
73.0, 1.0, 0.0		X MAX, X SCALE, X OFFSET
85.0, 1.0, 0.0		Y MAX, Y SCALE, Y OFFSET
14			KEY CONVERSION PAIRS
'1D' 1, '2D' 2, '3D' 3, '4D' 4, '5D' 5, '6D' 6,
'7D' 7, '8D' 8, '9D' 9, 'AD' 10, '0D' 0, '#D' 12, 'BD' 12, 'UU' 0
-1			NO INITIALIZATION CHARACTERS
-1			NO SHUTDOWN CHARACTERS
4			STREAM MODE ON
27 37 82 13		
4			STREAM MODE OFF
27 37 80 13
10			STREAM OFF WAIT TIME

This is the CAL9100 digform file after the changes:

'CAL9100'		CALCOMP 9100 DIGITZER
1			DIGITIZE DEVICE #
'(A2,2F5.3)'		DIGITIZER FORMAT
F			NO MENU BAR
F			SINGLE BUTTON MODE OFF
73.0, 1.0, 0.0		X MAX, X SCALE, X OFFSET
85.0, 1.0, 0.0		Y MAX, Y SCALE, Y OFFSET
14			KEY CONVERSION PAIRS
'1D' 1, '2D' 2, '3D' 3, '4D' 4, '5D' 5, '6D' 6,
'7D' 7, '8D' 8, '9D' 9, 'AD' 10, '0D' 0, '#D' 12, 'BD' 12, 'UU' 0
5			INITIALIZATION CHARACTERS
27 37 86 56 13
-1			NO SHUTDOWN CHARACTERS
4			STREAM MODE ON
27 37 82 13		
4			STREAM MODE OFF
27 37 80 13
10			STREAM OFF WAIT TIME

Notes:

In some cases, the above will work only for POINT MODE operation. If the above does not work for STREAM MODE, try the following:

ARCEDIT
EDITCOV coverage
COORDINATE DIGITZER
(register the coverage)
EF ARC
ADD
(start stream mode)
(press 9 to EXIT the ADD mode)
ADD

Article ID:000001745

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