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Adding Hanger Types to HydraLIST

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…

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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

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Using a Non-Standard Pipe Type in HydraCALC

A customer called today asking how to enter a 1″ black plastic underground pipe for the calc. This particular situation sounded unique enough that I did not tell him to add that pipe type to our database, as I would have if he expected to see this pipe type used repeatedly. I told him to…

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Trouble with icons

I was creating a new toolbar button yesterday and tried to alter an existing button image (known variously as icon or bitmap). When I did this in the CUI, I got a cloud picture and had to resort to a backup plan. The same happens if you create a custom toolbar and want to use our button images on your new buttons.

I think this is a bug in AutoCAD 2007 because it works in all earlier versions. My way around it is as follows:

Open up AutoCAD 2006 or earlier
and edit the bitmap there and do a Save As to some file name into the folder you
distribute your menus. Then you can Open it in your toolbar. Those versions of
AutoCAD are more flexible and seem to have no trouble finding the
bitmaps

If this is all Greek to you, I suggest you visit our website and download the AutoCAD produced tutorials on customizing your menus. The web page is here

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