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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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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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Converting a Drawing to use only Standard AutoCAD Fonts

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 command which will turn the text in all HydraCAD items into a standard AutoCAD font (romans). It will also expand the fractions (the only special keys we have defined in our font styles) into regular text

After you have one this, you can go into the AutoCAD STYLE command and pick whatever font you like

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