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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…
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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Month: December 2011
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This is a subject that I need to revisit every now and then, and it gives me a headache every time. What happens when you open AutoCAD? A. CUI files loaded: 1. Enterprise 2. Main 3. Partials to Main 4. Partials to Enterprise B. acad*.* files loaded: 1. Files listed in acad.rx 2. acad2012.lsp 3.…
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From a customer: On occasion I use the program at my home computer (this has helped in doing the tutorials). Most of the time I need to use only my Autocad 2012 without HydraCAD, but the system looks for the lock. Is there a solution to this? The way to do this is to create…
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I found this while googling for a solution to a customer problem – whenever he selected an object, all objects touching that object were also selected. I did not know AutoCAD had such an option, but they call is 'fast selection'. Click here for most of what you see below Ways to use AutoCAD Object…
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AutoCAD has hundreds of variables. Many use the SYSVAR command to list the variables and then they try to guess at the one they need (myself included). Instead, try the SYSVDLG to get a dialog box of all of the Sysvars, their settings and their values. You can even export the settings to compare them…
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In AutoCAD 2012 certain command have been 'deprecated'. That is a fancy programming term for 'no longer available the obvious way, but still available to those who know the secret way'. BLIPMODE is one of those. It controls whether you see a 'dot' everywhere you pick or no dot at all. Personally, they annoy me:…
The H-Factor 