After downloading a file, it is often Blocked. You must right-click on it, pick Properties and then check the Unblock item: But doing a dozen or more files gets old, real fast. I just learned a way to Unblock a batch of files at once. It involves using PowerShell, a Microsoft tool that is a…
If you want to use a new type of hanger, or are a fab shop that gets a job from a contractor that uses a hanger type that you do not have, it is easy to add that new hanger type to your own machine. A hanger is an assembly, and an assembly is just…
Recently our previous blog service (Typepad) ended their business – so, we have a new home. It will take a bit to get images back and displaying properly, but we are working on it! Final pageview count of original Typepad blog: 387,232
I consider myself a pretty good touch typist, but it never fails that at some point in the day, I’ll press the F1 key when I attempted to press ESC. It could be my subconscious trying to tell me I need some’ help’, but I choose to ‘suppress’ that notion. Anyway, I wouldn’t be the…
Darcy-Weisbach. It's a phrase you are probably hearing more and more of. What is it? It is a formula for calculating friction loss just like Hazen-Williams. But whereas Hazen-Williams is used for water in sprinkler pipe, Darcy-Weisbach can be used for any liquid (including water, but NFPA 13 does not permit its use). Its recent…
Today we got a drawing that would crash because the designer had duplicate pipes right on top of each other. There is a quick way to check for and fix this. The AutoCAD Express command OVERKILL will delete duplicate objects, among other things. Either type in OVERKILL at the command prompt or pick it from…
