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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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…
This one comes via Robert Matteson of Dynamic Fire Protection Systems, Inc – Texas:
When selecting objects using a
window or crossing window, I am sometimes hindered from selecting all items that
I want quickly due to the rectangular constraint of the window or crossing
window.I found out today, that by entering
WP (window polygon) or CP (crossing polygon) before you select your items, you can
work the window around complex selections very
easily.
Thanks, Robert!
I wasn’t aware of this and will definitely try it.
One other thing I’ve found is that to REMOVE an object from your selection set (after making your selection window), press the SHIFT key and select the object(s) you’d like to remove.
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