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 question was posed by a customer and frequent blog reader. Here's the list HydraLIST: \HES\Hydlist\Ver50\Data\Setup – If you take the whole folder (not subfolders), you will always be safe. If you are the one doing the editing and want to copy these to another machine, then sort by date and just take the ones…
For the last six months I have put up with the fact that when I pick the New icon, I don't get the Start a New Drawing dialog, but instead get thrown into the 3D Land of Gray template. The only way around this for me is to pick the File pulldown then pick New…
This one from Robert at Elite Fire who posed the question AND found the solution: Problem I have a problem with bloated scale lists when you plot which have ton of extra scales listed that look like " 1/8" = 1'-0" XREF_XREF_XREF_XREF_XREF_XREF_XREF_XREF_XREF_ They seem to really bog down the drawing when attaching XREFS or copy/pasting…
The H-Factor 