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…
The AutoCAD variable LAYOUTREGENCTL controls REGEN between, er, Layouts. There are three settings, 0, 1 and 2. AutoCAD help explains these options the best:
Why even have a 0 (zero) option? Well, if your RAM is extremely limited, this keeps you from getting fatal errors due to the memory being overloaded. The best setting is probably 1 because 2 can really eat up the RAM fast.
Another way to set this is on the System tab of the OPTIONS dialog box:
The H-Factor 
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