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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…

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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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Using the Mouse to Select an Input Option from the Command Line

Sometime back, I don't know when (between AutoCAD 2010 and AutoCAD 2013), AutoCAD altered the command line so that you can select the option on commands instead of typing it in. To see what I mean, type in ARRAY at the command line to see an example. Select any drawing entity and press enter. The following comes up:

Notice that the Rectangular, PAth and POlar options are grey-lighted. This means you can simply click on them to select them, instead of typing in the blue letter code or pressing <Enter> to get the default.

Keep that in mind the next time you are asked for an option from the command line.

PS – If you like the old-style ARRAY command, read this: Missing the Old School ARRAY Command?

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