After downloading a file, it is often Blocked. You must right-click on it, pick Properties and then check the Unblock item: But doing a dozen or more files gets old, real fast. I just learned a way to Unblock a batch of files at once. It involves using PowerShell, a Microsoft tool that is a…
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…
Recently our previous blog service (Typepad) ended their business – so, we have a new home. It will take a bit to get images back and displaying properly, but we are working on it! Final pageview count of original Typepad blog: 387,232
Thanks to John Hulett of Western States Fire Protection for handing over this tip. Many times background drawings have large blocks contained of many elements, and those elements may have many different colors. How to get them all to be the same color you might ask. Or linetypes 1. Pick the Change to ByLayer command…
From a Customer: "Is there a way to set multiple floor elevations in 3D so the elevation tags and ceiling hts will be set correct from each floor elevation?" Yes (you didn't expect me to say no, did you?). Using the Structure Elevations (TOS) command from the Steel toolbar (or Elevate ribbon panel) use the…
I'll get right to the point – AutoCAD does not support dual or multi-core processors. So, if you go out and buy a machine with eight-cores, you will be going as fast as a single-core machine for the most part. If the software is not written to take advantage of multiple cores, then it does…
These instructions assume that the drawing in question already has sprinklers defined and/or piping drawn. Start new drawing using one of our templates Insert the background drawing Define one HydraCAD sprinkler for each sprinkler in the background drawing Insert one of each of these heads some on the drawing that is easy to get to…
