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…
HydraCAD has a tool to generate a hanger point file to be loaded into a total station, and that file can include seismic brace locations as well. The command is located within the Create 3D Hangers command, found on the Hangers toolbar: Pick the Create 3D Hangers button to get to the Generate RTS Points…
If you’ve run into the problem where after returning your drawing from 3D to 2D you notice some sidewalls are being flipped, we can explain. This is a result of how AutoCAD handles mirrored blocks. In the the image below, the two sidewalls on the left side have been inserted using HydraCAD’s sprinkler insertion tools.…
The H-Factor 