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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 Moving Something?

A quickee – A customer just had a problem where he clicks on an object to move it and types in 0,0 as its destination and the block doesn’t go anywhere. After some digging we found that the behavior seemed like he was typing in @0,0, indeed he saw this echoed at the command prompt even though he didn’t type in an @ sign. He then said he was using Dynamic Input and it worked properly when DI was turned off. Hmmmm. So I went hunting in the SETVARs and found a few pretenders until I hit upon this one:

DYNPICOORDS System Variable

 

 

Type: Switch
Saved in: User-settings
Initial value: 0

Controls whether pointer input uses relative or absolute format
for coordinates.

0

Relative

1

Absolute

Weird! He set it to 1 and it worked as he expected, but this is contrary to the way AutoCAD sets it by default. I have no idea why it defaults to 0

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