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…
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What is LOD? It is 'Level of Development', a BIM pseudo-standard that specifies the level of completeness of a drawing/model. HydraCAD is capable of fulfilling all these levels, although most contracts (for now, at least) specify LOD 300 as the current goal. The following is from KalBlue: "BIM has been outlined into five levels. These…
So, you've drawn dashed/dotted/hidden lines in Model Space and they look just great. But, you go to Paper Space and they are all solid. What is going on? The setvar PSLTSCALE is what is going on. It's default setting is 1, which means the linetype scale being applied is based on the scaling of the…
Occasionally, we are faced with situations where we try to install a program and Windows says it is already there, but we think it isn't, and we can't find it in Programs and Feature in Control Panel. Or, we are trying to uninstall a program, and Windows errors out saying it is not there(!) The…
This topic also came from my co-worker Paul, who was asked to assist a customer with his question: From the Customer: Although we may stocklist hangers to ensure we have a good amount of material, we do not actually fabricate any hangers…Is there a way to have hangers marked as “loose” from the get go…
This topic came from my co-worker Paul, who was asked to assist a customer with his problem: From the Customer: I either want the nipples and associated fittings to be entirely loose (listed on the “loose” picklist and eliminated from the lines fabrication sheet), or entirely made on (leave them in the fabrication sheets but add…
Tired of always picking the same template every time you open AutoCAD or start a new drawing? There is an easy way to set this: 1. Right-click on the cammand line and pick Options or Pick Tools->Options to get into AutoCAD's settings 2. Pick the Files Tab 3. Find Template Settings and expand that 4.…
If you have a large drawing, we have long recommended that you use System Boundaries to break up the drawing for processing. But what if the system to be calculated stretches across other systems? You can still use boundaries, just use more of them, and make them isolate the main (more or less). See below:…
A tip from Joe O. at Troy Sprinkler: I just came across something really cool that I did now know and thought it might be a good one to pass along. I wanted to copy objects and then rotate the objects. Essentially having the same group of objects but rotated at a different angle. It’s…
A customer asked if there was a way to change the color of HydraPipes to red for the Navis coordination drawing. There are two ways to do this: Option 1: After you go to 3D, select everything in your model (yes, everything) and right-click and pick Properties. Then, pick the top drop down list and…
Double riser nipples were a long asked for improvement that was included in HydraCAD Version 50 when it was first released.The dialog associated with this command does not generate too many questions, probably since the graphic helps make sense of the options available: Once thing that does generate questions is how to go up one…
