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We have long been able to convert drawings that are made in our competitors software into ours. The conversion are pretty good (if I say so myself), but all have some limitation due to the way each package creates objects.

As a rule – this is the procedure to follow:

1. Start a new drawing using our template

2. Insert the competitor’s drawing into it, exploded

3. Pick the appropriate conversion tool. Note which heads it finds and say no to
conversion

4. Insert one HydraCAD head for each competitors head found and restart
conversion

Note: If you don’t do steps 1 and 2, in that order, then the conversion will
not work

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