After downloading a file, it is often Blocked. You must right-click on it, pick Properties and then check the Unblock item: But doing a dozen or more files gets old, real fast. I just learned a way to Unblock a batch of files at once. It involves using PowerShell, a Microsoft tool that is a…
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…
Recently our previous blog service (Typepad) ended their business – so, we have a new home. It will take a bit to get images back and displaying properly, but we are working on it! Final pageview count of original Typepad blog: 387,232
From a Customer: “On this job, the main is sloping (using the sloping pipe block), as are the lines. I need the last head to be 5” down from the deck. I Gave them a fixed elevation of [5 Bts] and a fixed elevation at the top of the riser, [34 BTS], but it does…
From a customer: “When I mirror typical piping for an area, how can I get the riser nipples to rotate properly without having to reinsert them all?” This is from the drawing he sent me: There is a solution. And, the truth is, I didn’t know about the following tool myself. 1. Pick the 3D…
