The H-Factor

Reducing Entropy

Month: June 2013

  • This entry outlines a little-known feature of AutoLine. Let's say you have large bays with irregular spacing and you have spaced heads throughout those bays, and now need to connect them. Like this: Draw the branch lines from the nearest head, to the furthest head, without stopping at the heads in between. Do this for…

  • This entry combines a little-known frature of a very common command (BaySpace). Let's say you want to insert heads and branch lines, and these heads want to be on armovers: 1. Use BaySpace to set parameters and pick you bay points as usual, but this time, select One pipe from the Draw: drop down list.…

  • This entry combines one little-known command (Smart Array) with a little-known feature of a more common command (AutoLine). Inserting Heads using Smart Array Let's say you have a large room with a suspended ceiling like this, and you want to space heads throughout that room, but do not want to calculate how many rows and…