The H-Factor

Reducing Entropy

Month: January 2008

  • I just had a customer who noticed that when he went to a Layout tab that all of his objects were gray. AutoCAD was apparently applying his Plot Style (Hydragray) to the objects in the Layout (and no, he wasn’t doing a Plot Preview). What to do? Apparently (after much Googling) there is an option…

  • I was visiting a new customer in New York City earlier this month, and this is what was in the design manager’s office: .Yep – that is four monitors, all hooked up to the same machine via one video card. I had HydraCALC, HydraLIST, HydraCAD and 3D fittings all up on different screens. It was…

  • More and more often we are hearing from customers that cannot submit a drawing file that uses ‘foreign’ fonts, just those that AutoCAD ships with. We added an option in the HydraCAD updates from a few months ago that can fix this for you. Pick HcadTool->Modify->Attribute->Expand Fractions or type in EXF This will start a…