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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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Using the Hydratec Software Download Area

Hydratec uses ShareFile to distribute our software installs and updates. New customers, or those without access, must request access to be able to get at these downloads. Access is only available to customers with a Hydratec subscription or those on an update plan. You can access the download area and request access by picking the…

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QNEW – Who Knew? When AutoCAD starts you in an aggravating template

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 from there.

Here is what is going on: The New icon actually starts the QNEW (Quick New) AutoCAD command. When you start a drawing this way, you get some default template as your starting point. This happens because somewhere down the line you checked (or unchecked) a checkbox in some dialog box.

How to fix it? Well, I finally gave in and searched AutoCAD help for QNEW and found the answer – there is a setting in OPTIONS for this, as seen in the picture below. I went ahead and made AutoCAD now start with my own HydraCAD template:

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    Cmicallef

    I’ve tried this, however, the STARTUP variable keeps resetting to ‘1’. Then when I try QNEW, the Start a New Drawing Diag. comes up instead. Any thoughts?

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