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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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AutoCAD 2013 introduced a new feature – Select Similar. It does just what it sounds like:

1. Pick an object (line, head, riser nipple, whatever) and right-click

2. Pick Select Similar from the menu that appears

You can now do whatever you like with this selection set. You could Move it, Copy it or change its Properties by opening up the properties box (Ctrl+1) if not already open!

If you want to control which characteristics are applied, then type in SELECTSIMILAR at the command prompt and type in SE (SEttings) to bring up the box of choices.

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One response to “Using the Select Similar Function”

  1. George Ali Blackburn Avatar

    Similar to the the ‘Do Things by Block’ or ‘Do Things by Layer’ commands…
    I keep forgetting to use this command because of CBL or EBB et al.

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